Prank Calls to cingular

I know someone who is been having issues getting prank calls, it's been
happenning for quite sometime now, people are basically calling him
from either private numbers, or regular phone numbers that when you
call back, you find out the numbers are all diconnected or at least
that's the message you would recieve, we called cingular and asked
about a couple of these phone numbers, and they simply told us after a
huge struggle that these numbers have been disconnected for a duration
of 2 years if not more.
My question is how are these people doing it? and how to trace the
calls back to the original callers?

If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know, any help is
apreciated!

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In <[email protected]> on 16 Mar 2006
12:10:08 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>I know someone who is been having issues getting prank calls, it's been
>happenning for quite sometime now, people are basically calling him
>from either private numbers, or regular phone numbers that when you
>call back, you find out the numbers are all diconnected or at least
>that's the message you would recieve, we called cingular and asked
>about a couple of these phone numbers, and they simply told us after a
>huge struggle that these numbers have been disconnected for a duration
>of 2 years if not more.
>My question is how are these people doing it? and how to trace the
>calls back to the original callers?
>
>If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know, any help is
>apreciated!

Called ID can be spoofed. Best bet is to change the number, and be careful
about giving it out. Because of the crank calls, Cingular might be willing to
waive any charge for doing this.

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He did, and they ended up locating him again, so that didn't do it for
him!!

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In <[email protected]> on 16 Mar 2006
12:45:45 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>He did, and they ended up locating him again, so that didn't do it for
>him!!

Sounds like someone he knows is giving him grief.

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John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In <[email protected]> on 16 Mar 2006
> 12:45:45 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>He did, and they ended up locating him again, so that didn't do it for
>>him!!
>
> Sounds like someone he knows is giving him grief.
>
> --
> Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
> John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

Depending on the phone, there are smart phones with applications
where you can create a 'white-list' of numbers. If the incoming number
isn't on that list, it will get forwarded to voicemail.

well it's all down to one question; could you possibly call people
using some sort of phone card that provides you with an option of
having to manually enter a specific phone number to appear on the
reciever's caller id?

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In <[email protected]> on 16 Mar 2006
14:42:07 -0800, "DanJ" <[email protected]> wrote:

>well it's all down to one question; could you possibly call people
>using some sort of phone card that provides you with an option of
>having to manually enter a specific phone number to appear on the
>reciever's caller id?

It's usually done with a digital PBX.

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"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In <[email protected]> on 16 Mar 2006
> 12:45:45 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>He did, and they ended up locating him again, so that didn't do it for
>>him!!
>
> Sounds like someone he knows is giving him grief.

In fact, that *really* narrows down the set of people it could be. Who
found out his phone number shortly before the prank calls resumed?

DanJ wrote:
> well it's all down to one question; could you possibly call people
> using some sort of phone card that provides you with an option of
> having to manually enter a specific phone number to appear on the
> reciever's caller id?

Only a telephone system (PBX or Key System) that has DID outbound
capability can to this. Most systems can handle inbound DID, but
outbound DID is entirely different - very, very few systems support it.

You *can* spoof caller ID from a regular phone line IF the called party
has a particular Caller ID chip (like the early Motorola chips) that
allows a second 300 baud ASCII string to reset the initial string. Of
course this is not possible to do with a cellular phone.

Caller ID can be spoofed very easily over VoIP.

http://www.ufntel.com

"DanJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> well it's all down to one question; could you possibly call people
> using some sort of phone card that provides you with an option of
> having to manually enter a specific phone number to appear on the
> reciever's caller id?
>

HoFoUFN wrote:
> http://www.ufntel.com
>


"This method is private and untraceable."

Giggle.


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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:27:05 -0500, "mc"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
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>>
>> In <[email protected]> on 16 Mar 2006
>> 12:45:45 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>>He did, and they ended up locating him again, so that didn't do it for
>>>him!!
>>
>> Sounds like someone he knows is giving him grief.
>
>In fact, that *really* narrows down the set of people it could be. Who
>found out his phone number shortly before the prank calls resumed?
>
>


Its someone in his house! Get out of the house now! RUN! RUN!