sundance-communications.com/forum Forums General General Telephone & Systems Information Threatening Call ~ is this possible? Please Help!!!

Does using *67 usually prevent the call being registered (by date and time) when the recipient later uses *69?

Over here our equivalent of *69 will still give the time of the call and announce "The caller withheld their number," rather than just give the time of the last call which did have CLI released.

Of course, if the caller happens to work in the local central office he could easily call without leaving any trace whatsoever.

Your first step needs to be file a police report, then you can contact security for your carrier. They will then release the information to your local police dept. Like merlin man said telco's have a record of every inbound and outbound call that has been completed but they can only release this information to the proper authorities.

Thanks guys for all the replies (and thanks, Dear Hal, for the chuckles as well ~ long needed & much appreciated). Mr. Paul brought up a point I was also wondering, whether the time & date would still be announced but that the number was blocked. Also, one of the BIG problems we have with the majority of advice is that since my husband has a complaint filed and legal action pending against not only our landlord but the State Police as well that this 'threat' may have come from one of the troopers involved (and since we live in their jurisdiction, they are the ones who the phone company would contact ~ aren't we just in such an enviable position, hmmmmm...)

Also, just a point, we know it wasn't just a random prank call because the caller did address my husband by the correct name ("Is the Mr. 'Gee bet you wish you'd have moved you & your family out of here before initiating all this legal stuff'?)

Hence my screen name ~ you wake up one morning and everything's perfectly normal but then you blink your eyes and 'poof', nothing's ever the same again.

One Still Very Worried Mama

Well then your best bet would be to contact internal affairs for the state police and file your complaint with them.

my husband has a complaint filed and legal action pending against not only our landlord but the State Police as well that this 'threat' may have come from one of the troopers involved

As a New Yorker where everybody gets locked up, even our Governor I doubt that anybody from the State Police would want to stick their neck out. They are not stupid and are aware that anonymous calls are not anonymous at all. Besides, police departments get problems like this all the time and handle it routinely. So unless you are accusing someone in the department of murder and have a good case you are small potatoes.

If I were going to bet on this I would put my money on your landlord and his cronies.

-Hal

Yes, an internal affairs investigation has already begun (or been done ~ not sure how long these things take). I got a call a while back from the Captain saying they were doing that, then when we got a call from the Corporal heading the investigation, my husband's lawyer took the information and said he would take it from there. Apparently we are to defer all attempts at communication to the lawyer. Don't know if that's good news or bad. It's turned into a real nightmare, we miss our nice 'boring' life... Wish we lived in a fortress ~ even just a moat would be nice.

Worried Mama

You could also contact the local office of the FBI is you’re really worried about your local law enforcement (State Police) being involved in the threats … If there was a litteral threat of violance they could check into it as well. They happen to have access to “better toys” so to speak accessing the Telco Network.

There are devices for sale online which will record all calls on your telephone line automatic, I suggest you get one. They are mostly bought by spouses looking to bust their spouse for cheating, but they still work for other things.

There are commonly groups that are targeted to women that offer getting aquainted with handguns courses that even provide the handguns for instruction during classes at no to low cost. If you are seriously concerned to the level you are stating you should have a fire arm, and appropriate training to use it. Hand guns are easy to wield, and there are ones designed for ladies, and shot guns, particularly the pump kind will scare away most perpetrators just by the sound of the pump itself without firing it. For the most part if anyone besides a professional gunman hears the sound of a shotgun pump they leave as quickly as possible, and are no longer going to try to intimidate anyone further. Even a swat team member if they hear a shot gun pump on the other side of a door backs off if they are not ready, willing, and able to kill the person with the shotgun. So, if this is a the reality of the situation exercise your right to keep, and bare arms. I would bet that you are in an area where you can practice at home since you are rural enough for the state police to be the local responder. Nothing wrong with a little target practice, and leave a few shotgun shells on the ground out front. A rhotwieller mnight not be a bad idea as well.

First, let me apologize in advance if my response seems bold in any way. I have strong feelings about this stuff and feel that what I offer here may shed some light on all this.

My most memorable history with this stuff happened many years ago. My wife and I were getting a series of creepy, almost non-sensical calls. I was initially amused at the man's ramblings until he gave what I felt was a decent description of my property address. Needless to say, we got the police involved. I laugh today knowing that it was a nut job at a mental health hospital who picked our number at random from the phone book. And so I sympathize with your urgency to know who it was that called you that day.

Having read all the previous posts, my guess is that was simply an insensitive prank, and that the culprit is your son (in-law?) or someone he happened to be with when you received this call.

The reason I think this is because your son was reached after you performed a Call Return (*69).

Call Return attempts to call back the phone number of your last received call. Call Return does not skip past the unidentified numbers and dial back the last "known" or identified call. If Caller ID was unavailable for the previous call, dialing *67 will only get you a recorded message (something along the lines of "the previous number was marked private, and cannot be handled by this service").

Hopefully this will all turn out to be born from misplaced, youthful spirit...that your son or one of his goofball friends had a lapse in judgement prior to making a prank call.

Call Return attempts to call back the phone number of your last received call. Call Return does not skip past the unidentified numbers and dial back the last "known" or identified call. If Caller ID was unavailable for the previous call, dialing *67 will only get you a recorded message (something along the lines of "the previous number was marked private, and cannot be handled by this service").

Well, there is something I didn't know because I never use *67.

Having read all the previous posts, my guess is that was simply an insensitive prank, and that the culprit is your son (in-law?) or someone he happened to be with when you received this call.


Hmmm, so the plot thickens...

-Hal