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So someone just prank called my home phone....

Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
edited May 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
At 9pm on a Saturday night threatening that if I don't pay my mortgage and bills that my house will be repossessed.
The thing is, I lost my job over a month ago and am still looking for a new job and have recently taken out a mortgage. So someone obviously knows who they are pranking.

My dad answered and the person kept making these threats without revealing who they were.
So I picked up the other phone and listened in before threatening the caller before hanging up.

I then checked white pages online and our name, phone, and address appear, ooops I forgot to organise to keep our number silent when I switched phone companies not long ago, I will need to get that sorted asap.
I don't give my home phone number to anyone, so they obviously went online to find it.

My question, what is the best way to find out which number called?
If I call my telephone company do you think they will reveal it?
I want to find out who pranked me, I am worried they will keep doing it.

Not sure if this is a coincidence or someone I know is playing a heartless prank.
So upset right now and hurt someone could be so cruel.
I have people on Facebook that I don't consider friends, people you know through people or met once.
I think it was someone from there that might have seen my correspondence with my real life friends.
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • blenderman69blenderman69 Posts: 2,104
    you can call your phone company and tellt hem your being harrassed. for a fee they can log all your incoming calls here in philadelpia with verizion i think it's called stargate or callgate or something like that..it's like 4 or 5 dollars a month
  • JTHJTH Posts: 3,238
    You're in Australia? I have no clue if the laws are similar there, but in the US, this sounds like something that could be borderline mail fraud, so it might not be a bad idea to report this to the authorities .
  • threefish10threefish10 Posts: 7,392
    It's all probably just some random dick. You can be pretty much guarantee 99% of people you randomly pick to ring would have a mortgage. if they did use your real actual name it may be someone you know, or they did see it printed in the phone book, but mostly with the white pages just put the 1st initial and surname. So unless they said your 1st name, it's probably random.

    I think if the phone rings again and you don't answer it you can *10# it and it will tell you the last unaswered number, if they still have that. I'm not sure.
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,331
    If they call again/think it is them don't answer. So long as you don't have an answering service dial *10# and they will give you the missed call...
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  • Slap upside the headSlap upside the head Posts: 904
    Where's the link?
  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    *69 state side. :lol:
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  • pearljimpearljim Posts: 1,310
    30 years ago someone was calling my sister with the heavy breathing and sh!t ....kept it up til one day I got on the other line and after warning my sis blew a whistle as hard as I could into the phone...calls stopped. To this day I wonder if the guy is deaf in that ear...... :)
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    Slap upside the head wrote:
    Where's the link?

    ????
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    pearljim wrote:
    30 years ago someone was calling my sister with the heavy breathing and sh!t ....kept it up til one day I got on the other line and after warning my sis blew a whistle as hard as I could into the phone...calls stopped. To this day I wonder if the guy is deaf in that ear...... :)

    I like that one haha
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Posts: 15,165
    pjfan31 wrote:
    If they call again/think it is them don't answer. So long as you don't have an answering service dial *10# and they will give you the missed call...

    Yeah if it is at 9pm at night I will try that.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • MoonTurtleMoonTurtle Posts: 752
    report it to your phone company and local authorities
    if it continues happening and you report it every time the phone company is obligated to disclose the calling #
    at least in nyc :)

    or you can start saying FBI when you answer your phone
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