Sunday, September 30, 2012

Dealing With Phone Call Harassment

By Shawna Trujillo


phone call harassment can be one of the most unpleasant disruptions that one may ever have. Whether it may be juvenile prank calls or horrific obscene threats, these kinds of disturbances must be dealt with at once so that people do not have to suffer. Here is a list of some tips on how to prevent these instances.

Usually, one or two of these calls will not stir up much of a big deal. Now if the calls keep on coming and coming, then the phone company will take it as a sign that their lines are being abused by prank callers. Threats on the other hand, are an even bigger issue because this kind of disturbance may actually involve some lives.

Now of course the best thing to do would be to ignore these kinds of things. As much as possible, it is best not to bring in any help from the telephone company or police for such a small matter. So if one were to receive these kinds of calls, then he should just hang up because if he gets angry, he will just encourage more of these annoyances.

Now if the calls do not stop, one may file a report to the phone company. What the company can do is they can be able to trace the number and identify who is the person who is behind that line. From there, the customer may block the said number or request a law enforcing body to issue a warning to the caller.

If one would want to avoid these calls without involving the phone company or the law enforcers, then he can simply request to change his number. In most cases, these offenders would just randomly pick a number in the yellow pages or dial any seven digits to find who their next victim is. So changing number might be to the solution to avoiding these things without causing a racket.

Another way would be to get an answering machine. If a caller tries to annoy someone by making a prank call, then his efforts will go down the drain because the answering machine is there to block the victim. The prank caller will eventually be discouraged.

The scary thing about these occurrences is that sometimes, there might be calls of threat. These are usually done by organizations that have a specific target that they are stalking and wanting to harm. When this happens, do not hesitate to inform the police about it. The police would be the ones who would work with the telephone company in tracing the numbers of the threats and investigate. Do not take this lightly as it might be life threatening.

When dealing with phone call harassment, take note of these tips to prevent it from happening again. Never ever entertain these callers and absolutely never ever disclose any personal information like names or addresses. The only time where things will get serious is if the caller will pose as a threat. That is the time to actually make a big deal out of this situation.




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