How To Stop Harassing Crank Calls With A Telephone Trap Line Rental

If you are on the receiving end of harassing calls, prank calls, crank calls or hang up calls you can put a stop to it by renting a telephone trap line. It is possible to use a telephone service known as ANI or Automatic Number Identification to unblock blocked calls and get the phone number of the person calling you. But before you decide to launch your own investigation into the source of these annoying calls there are some steps you should take first.

First you should try to make a police report. Even if you think it's not serious right now it can always escalate. so better to be safe than sorry. If the police do take your complain seriously they can direct the phone company to put a trap and trace on your line to identify incoming callers.
Second you should report it to your telephone company. many local phone companies have a pay per trace service. Usually it's *57. When you activate the Call Trace code (*57) immediately following the harassing call, the caller's phone number is recorded by the phone company and will appear on your next billing statement. However not every state allows you to use *57.

If these two avenues are not the solution you can hire a private investigator that is experienced in telephone harassment investigation. The investigator will rent you a trap line and you'll forward all your incoming call to the trap. You can either have the calls ring to a second line like a cell phone and answer your calls as usual or you can have all your calls to a voice mail service that is usually included in the cost of the trap line rental.

Either way each time a call comes in you'll receive an email notification of the incoming callers phone number. Even if they have used *67 to block the call from your caller ID service. When you isolate the numbers that are harassing you, you then provide that phone number to the private investigator who will use his resources to attach a name and address to that phone number.

Once the incoming prank caller has been identified the private investigator can reduce these findings to a report. You can take that report back to the police station in order to get an arrest and prosecution. But even if that avenue fails again you should be able to go to court to get a restraining order against the person in order to stop the harassing crank calls for good.


Ed Opperman is president of Opperman Investigations Inc. He is considered an expert in telephone harassment investigations. If you need a trap line service with (ANI)Automatic Number Identification visit http://www.emailrevealer.com
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