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Tracing a call?

edgecamedgecam Member Posts: 3,280
edited September 2010 in General Discussion
For the past couple of days I have been getting phone calls and when I answer they hangup and when I call them back there is no answer and no message. Is there anyway I can trace the call back and see who it is?
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try http://whocalled.us/
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About all YOU can do is activate Caller ID. But, if they have a blocked number, that won't help. You can contact the abuse department at the phone company and let them know. They can trace the calls even if the caller activates his block. If the calls are intentional harassment, they can tell you what your legal options are.
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  • NiccoHelNiccoHel Member Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by edgecam
    For the past couple of days I have been getting phone calls and when I answer they hangup and when I call them back there is no answer and no message. Is there anyway I can trace the call back and see who it is?


    you didn't get snarky with someone that called your number by mistake did you? to play it safe, if you are planning on selling a vehicle soon... hold off a while.

    hmmm, do your phone bills have the numbers listed for calls to and from? i take it you don't have caller id... you might be able to have the phone company setup a blocker for numbers that withhold information. like a counter *62 or *67 or whatever it is.
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  • edgecamedgecam Member Posts: 3,280
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by NiccoHel
    quote:Originally posted by edgecam
    For the past couple of days I have been getting phone calls and when I answer they hangup and when I call them back there is no answer and no message. Is there anyway I can trace the call back and see who it is?


    you didn't get snarky with someone that called your number by mistake did you? to play it safe, if you are planning on selling a vehicle soon... hold off a while.


    It is on my cell phone that I don't give the to a lot of people. And yes it has caller ID.
    hmmm, do your phone bills have the numbers listed for calls to and from? i take it you don't have caller id... you might be able to have the phone company setup a blocker for numbers that withhold information. like a counter *62 or *67 or whatever it is.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Next time answer the call..

    "CHICKETY CHINA,THE CHINESE CHICKEN!!!
    HAVE A DRUMSTICK AND YOUR BRAIN STARTS TICKIN"!!

    [:D][:D]
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  • edgecamedgecam Member Posts: 3,280
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    Try http://whocalled.us/


    Thanks CaptFun,

    It says it is from buckmasters. I don't know how they got my cell number but they will be getting an E-mail shortly to let them know I'am less then pleased with them.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was getting calls from a place called U S Diabetics once or twice a day for months. They never said a thing or left a message. I called the number and got "PRESS ONE FOR SALES OR TWO FOR THE DO NOT CALL LIST" [xx(] Could press the numbers all day and not get anyone.
    Reported them to phone co. nad FCC with NO results. Finally had blocking service put on phone [;)]
    Now block all the trolls [:D]

    Except 800 numbers [:(!]
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Another method is an old police whistle. If you say "hello" and no one talks back to you, give them a nice long blast and hang up. LOL
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  • SWAT 50SWAT 50 Member Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here is a good one.............


    When you answer and they ask for you and you know it is a telemarketer, Just say I'll get him and set the phone down, when you hear the Beep,beep, beep, you know they got tired of waiting. and you wasted that much of there time, they would have done the same to you.
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  • big genobig geno Member Posts: 2,685 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Press *57 next time it will tell you if the call was traced.Call the phone company,they will contact the police.It all depends on how bad you want to know who it was.
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Next time answer the call..

    "CHICKETY CHINA,THE CHINESE CHICKEN!!!
    HAVE A DRUMSTICK AND YOUR BRAIN STARTS TICKIN"!!

    [:D][:D]



    That or..

    "Edgecam's Taxidermy. You snuff 'em, we stuff 'em"!
    [:D][;)]
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • TopkickTopkick Member Posts: 4,452 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have told telemarketers that I would like to buy 2! even before they say what they are selling.

    Then, I tell them I will buy as soon as I get a job and my wife gets out of prison.


    (The wife really loves hearing my side of the conversation)[}:)]
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The phone company will trace the calls how ever they will never tell you who it was.
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  • wittynbearwittynbear Member Posts: 4,518
    edited November -1
    I usually answer calls like that with Henley's whore house, which whore do you adore?
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  • jeffb1911jeffb1911 Member Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When i worked dispatch, and one of these "Phone Creatures" (look up Rusty Mitchum's discussion on Phone Creatures in the Lindale Times-funny as hell!) would call and wake me up, i was known to answer "Lindale Police Department"......well, i was half asleep, and was thinking i was at work or something.....they eventually quit.
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