well im getting harassed and before i send it on to the police id like to figure out who it is
um is there anyway i can figure out there name online before i send it to the cops encase its one of my friends being stupid i got the number

Can you elaborate?

Yah, your gonna have to say more than that to us in order for anyone to even really give any opinion on the situation.

okay i got some texts that where saying horrific stuff that someone would do to me such as skin me for my pelt, lick my bleeding scalp...etc
i dont know the number could be one of my friends with a new phone so i kinda wanna look up the number online is that possible for free?

Yellow Pages, adn White Pages if you live in Canada, ask your friends otherwise it might have just been a prank call. Try to think of any Dbags at your school, or place of work, who you might have pissed off and now thye are either trying to scare you or worse.

But if that actually happened to you, adn you are scared, take it to the police, better safe then sorry.

The police could probably look it up for you. I dunno if cell phone numbers can be easily traced back to people.

If it's serious enough for the police to get into it, they can be traced very accurately with assistance from whoever controls the cell network in that area. Traced both as in details, and location.

I work in telecom (land lines, mind you) and we can't even begin a trace without a case number. I'm not sure about mobiles, but typically the rules are similar.

Oops I meant to say:
I dunno if cell phone numbers can be easily traced back to people using an online search.

I have no doubt that the police have the ability to trace cell phones. :tongue:

I work for a mobile co, and I used to work for another doing a similar but different job.

At the Old Telco which has a Constant prominent in its name I had access to the records from cell sites for billing disputes "Okay sir, you say you didn't make that call, but you made a call 3 minutes later in the same location to your home number". So can the Police trace where you are or were when you made a phone call? quite probably with a reasonable degree of accuracy if you're in an urban area (more desnely packed transmitters so you have to be closer to them than in the country).

However, its probably going to do you a fat lot of good of your harraser has any sense. I don't know about where you are, but here in the UK if you buy a prepaid (or pay as you go as its sometimes called) sim card you don't even need to register your name. Presuming they havent done something stupid like purchased a contract phone (where they have to give their name for the credit check) or topped up by credit/debit card then they're as good as untraceable.

Your best bet is to actually report this to your telephone company, and the police. The most of telephone cos here in the UK at least have a policy of offering a free phone number change to people who are reporting harrasing calls (limited to one a year or some other reasonable limit). You wont get to pick your number or anything fancy like that, but it kills the calls dead (presuming you dont give the number to the same idiot again). The Police can talk to the Telco's police liason unit (or similar) and get the cell records, account details and topup history.

Why don't you just call them?

no voicemail it says leave a voicemail for [number]

That sounds like a report-to-the-police-and-don't-[censored]-around situation to me. Just tell them that you've been getting threatening messages, show the messages to them and ask for help.

Agreed.

Also: do you really have friends who would do something like that, even in jest? :blink:

He probably does the same just verbally.

And I say also inform your parents about this. If you come to the police with this alone they may think that it is a prank you and your friends decided to pull on the police and not take it seriously, but bringing your parents along will have a reassuring effect.

my friends got me a body bag for my 21st birthday i honestly wouldnt doubt there stupidity

Gather all your friends together and call the number.
If no one is responding tell them about the messages and that you go to the police.
And then do that.

:mellow:

I'm not sure what to think about this...

Police, Load Gun, Wait

That wasn't a joke, if you are serious tell the police and if one of your friends sent it as a joke kick his or her ass.

You have pretty terrible friends, if you're older than 21 I think that those kind of jokes are a little on the immature side...

Nah it sounds more like a "let's sit around talking on BGSF until I get murdered by a serial killer situation"

I mean seriously OP I hope you haven't seriously been waiting around for a couple of replies on an internet gaming forum before notifying someone about the situation.

Same friend you sent to the hospital? Maybe it's revenge.... :ahhh:

You can backtrace it. Poor guy; the consequences will never be the same.

I called last night they came over and got my side and took my phone as evidence o_o


lol i havent seen him in a while