Cell phones are very useful because they can help you get in contact with everybody anywhere and at any time. This can be as a two way cutting sword. This ability that you can be called in any place and at any hour can sometime be a nuisance. You don't have to close you cell phone just because a person bothers you in inconvenient times. After all you have a cell phone because you want to be found anywhere. First of all you can file a complaint to the local authorities about that person who is harassing you. Second option is to use call blocking service that any cell phone carrier company has.



Call the customer services of your cell phone provider and check if they have such service that provides blocking of phone numbers. If they do the next information that you need is if they are blocking only area calls or any type of calls. After you have found that this service is provided by the company who's customer are, you can set up all inbound calls.

After you have done this note the code that you receive and you can share it with your friends and family. By using this code they can call you. Without the proper code others will not be able to bother you. Your phone company can help you use a call screen that blocks specific numbers and anonymous number. Talk to them to find out further details about this service. Your company can enable Anonymous Call Rejection or ACR a great feature that will block all calls of this type.

Check your cell phone manual to find advanced settings to block numbers on a cell phone. These features are buried deep in the menu of any cell phone because they are not so commonly used by many people. This is not so hard to do. Also check if you can put your phone number in the unlisted phone list. As you know by now searching and finding a phone number is not hard to do using the internet.

Everyday thousands of phone directories on the internet gather data about people to make them available for a profit or just for free. No matter the purpose of this directory the fact is that they are available to everybody. It is very easy for an ambitious marketer to sit in front of a computer and methodically call every person he finds on a street to try to sell his merchandise.

There are persons who don’t take no for an answer and will keep calling giving you the opportunity of new deals. Of course after including the number in the national does not call list he or she should stop calling you. What if you are bothered by an anonymous call?  Well another option will be to use call redirect option. Set up your redirection to whatever phone number comes into mind. After a while the prankster will give up if he finds out that he doesn’t find his target anymore. The option of changing your phone number should be the last on your list.