I remember back when I was a kid my mom got a series of weird calls at her work. Sometimes the guy would just say nothing, other times he was abusive, he even threatened her a few times. The problem back then was that there was no way to trace a call without getting the police involved. My Dad had to take mom to work every day and pick her up at night cos we were all worried this guy might show up out of the blue.
Thankfully these days it’s actually seriously easy to trace a phone number! I discovered how to do it a couple of months back when I myself was getting some malicious calls, again sometimes the guy would say nothing, other times he’d do the old heavy breathing routine. It started to get ridiculous when it would happen in the middle of the night, there’s no way I could stand being woken up at 4am every night, so I did some poking around and found this service that can find a name and address by putting in the cell phone number. I couldn’t believe quite how easy it is, you put in the number and then less than 30 seconds later you have the name and address of whoever called you, you even get their email address sometimes too!
It’s actually kinda scary how easy it is to find anyone’s name, address and details from their cell phone number alone…you don’t need anything else! I guess it looks like the era of the prank call is now officially over!