Who Belongs To A Certain Phone Number

When you are receiving phone calls from persons you don’t know or who didn’t called you before, then you will probably want to know who belongs to a certain phone number. This can be a difficult thing because even if the local phone numbers are public, the reverse action of finding out who belongs to a certain phone number.





When you want to find out this kind of things, you may meet problems, because these things generally belong to the private life of the persons and here we can talk about another kind of issues, especially juridical ones.

To find out who belongs to a certain phone number first thing you have to know is to have a good reason to ask this information, because every phone number has included a confidentiality clause, which is designed to protect this kind of information.

When you want to find out the name of a person who called you, you usually have to go to the phone company where that phone number is registered and to try to explain to the manager or to the operator what the reason why you need the information is. After this, he will read you the general regulation of the company and the exceptions when they can make public the name of a subscriber or his phone number.

If after your explanation, the operator thinks that you are in one of the exceptional cases, then you can have the name of the person who earns the phone number you claim, otherwise he will tell you that it is against the regulation to make public the name of the person.

There is one more possibility for you to find out the name of the person, but in this case you should ask the help of police, especially if you think that your problem makes the object of a crime.

In this case, if you see that the person who calls you uses this mean of communication to put a pressure on you, for example trying to threat you with a danger that could happen to you if you don’t act like she tells you to, then you must immediately go to the police and tell them what is happening to you.

Remember that you must never listen to the indications of that unknown person and that you must go right away to the police and ask them the help, because only in this way you can stop the danger before it gets even more serious.

In cases where the police intervenes, the company is obliged to give all the information required, because the reason is a precise one: to solve the case and to find the person, so that she can tell to the police the reason why she acted like that.

Even if the confidentiality of the data is very important, the superior interest is to protect the other persons, so that the public order to be maintained and the security of the society to be at an optimal level.

Written by , date Apr 28, 2010 in Curiosities
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  • liz said on 07/22/2010:

    Yes, I have a friend who is a lawyer and she was being harassed by an ex-client that eventually when to prison. He wanted her to have a nervous breakdown as she was the opposite lawyer that sent him behind bars. At first she wanted to find out which was the number he was calling from because she wanted his address but the phone company could not provide her with that information. She went to the police and the latter were entitles to receive phone bills of the suspect and see a list of calls which he has made. It showed that he was calling her 3 or 4 times every day and know the police are investigating the matter even further.

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