Whooming allows you to trace the telephone number of an
anonymous call for free, but there are other forms of protection.
Behind an anonymous call you can hide a friend who wants to
make a joke, the usual call center that offers commercial offers or, in the
worst case, a stalker . Knowing the identity of the caller in advance or, at
least, the phone number , could avoid many hassles.
Among other things, as you know, making an anonymous call is
really simple: from a fixed line it is sufficient to prefix the * 67 # prefix
with the recipient's telephone number, while, for anonymous calls from a mobile phone, it is
usually necessary to prepend the code #
31 # to the number to call.
Not many people know that there are several ways to unmask
an anonymous call: through these simple tools, it is possible to identify the
caller's number even if dialed anonymously. A very useful way to defend
yourself from unwanted calls and, above all, from possible harassers. Let's see
how to find out for free who calls from unknown number
.
Index
1 How to find anonymous calls: Override
2 How to find anonymous phone calls: Whooming
2.1 How to find anonymous calls: install Whooming
2.2 How to find anonymous phone calls: how Whooming works
2.3 How to find anonymous calls: disable Whooming
3 How to find out calls from private numbers: TrueCaller
4 How to find out calls from private numbers: Should I
answer?
5 How to find anonymous calls: when Whooming is not enough
6 Calls from a private number: registration in the Public
Register of oppositions
7 Calls from a private number: the Privacy Guarantor
8 Calls from a private number: judicial protection
9 Anonymous phone calls and telephone harassment crime
10 Anonymous calls and stalking
How to find anonymous phone calls: Override
A valid service to discover anonymous calls is definitely
Override , which you can request from your telephone operator but which,
unfortunately, is paid and the costs to be incurred are not exactly minimal. In
addition, it requires the existence of a complaint and an authorization from
the judge.
This is a tool made available directly by telephone
operators that allows you to reveal all the calls made anonymously by showing
the real number of the caller on the telephone display . The inconvenience of
the service concerns the costs: about thirty euros for fifteen days.
To activate the service, a form must be completed (attaching a photocopy of the identity card)
which can also be requested online, by e-mail or downloaded directly from the
telephone operator's website.
In any case, Override allows you to unmask the molester
number, but it is not possible to obtain, directly from customer service, the
name of the owner of the anonymous user. In order to have this information,
however, a specific complaint filed with
the competent authorities (also with oral declaration), the only ones
authorized to access the clear records , is required.
Before making the report, you must make sure that the
conduct put in place by the alleged offender is a criminal offense . In fact, accusing a person
of an offense that he did not actually commit involves the risk of being
exposed to a counter-complaint for
slander .
Outside of the stalking hypotheses , the crime that occurs most often in these
cases, by the importunate telephone operator, is that of harassment (which will be discussed more
extensively later). The typical pattern of harassment is characterized by
the repetition of phone calls in daytime and nighttime hours, often silent
and sometimes with the sole purpose of affecting the tranquility and rest of
the targeted person.
It is also necessary that there has been a plurality of telephone disturbance
behaviors . Therefore, calls made by
mistake, prank calls and commercial propaganda calls within the limits of
normal tolerance are not punishable. According to the jurisprudence, only two
phone calls, moreover silent, are not sufficient to configure the harassment.
How to find anonymous
phone calls: Whooming
Luckily, to find anonymous calls there is a free service
called Whooming , which can work with any operator, both on mobile and
landline. Whooming works through the call forwarding technique: essentially the
call is diverted to the Whooming number , which identifies the author. The
basic version of Whooming is free but, in this case, the number of those making
anonymous calls is shown only twenty-four hours after the call is made. If you
want immediate results you have to activate the paid service.
Another of the advantages offered by Whooming is the extreme
compatibility: the service, in fact, works not only with smartphones , but also
with classic cellphones without internet connection. To use Whooming , in fact,
it is not necessary to install any
application for the phone:
just configure call forwarding , a possibility
offered by any mobile operator.
How to find anonymous
phone calls: install Whooming
The installation of Whooming is very simple. First of all
you must go to the official website of the service and click on the central
button register for free . At this point, you can choose to register by
entering an e-mail address or using Facebook credentials . Once this operation
has also been completed, Whooming will send a confirmation message of
successful registration containing a temporary password . After that, you have
to click on the item Go to the site , always contained in the message.
A new page will open; here you need to click on the Login
button and fill in the login form by typing the e-mail address chosen initially
and the password that was sent by e-mail.
After registering, you are ready for the most important
step: providing Whooming with your telephone number. To do this, simply select
the + Add number button and then Continue .
How to discover
anonymous phone calls: how Whooming works
Call forwarding must now be set up . The procedure should
not impress: what has been illustrated so far is nothing more than an ordinary
registration on any site.
Once the whole registration procedure has been completed,
the service shows how to enable call forwarding on the indicated telephone number
so that calls made with the anonymous name are automatically rejected and
directed to the Whooming number . The options available are basically two:
to enable call forwarding on busy , check the box next to
call forwarding on busy and dial a code that varies from operator to operator.
For example, for Tim, Vodafone and Wind the number is ** 67 * 0694802015 #; for
Tre it is ** 67 * 0694802015 * 11 #. By choosing this mode, you can discover
the anonymous number only by refusing the call;
to enable call forwarding on all calls (practically the
mobile phone will no longer ring), check the box located next to the item total
call forwarding , dial ** 21 * 0694802015 # and start a call. Next, you need to
click on the continue button .
After the procedure, Whooming asks to check that the service
is actually working. Basically, if the choice fell on call forwarding only if
the phone is busy, you have to dial your own number (i.e., call yourself),
while, if total call forwarding has been activated, you have to call on your
own number from other users. Whooming will communicate the correct activation
of the service.
From now on, every time you receive a call from a private or
unknown number, all you have to do is refuse the call; after about twenty-four
hours, Whooming will send a message to the e-mail address indicated during the
registration phase, indicating the number of those who called anonymously. On
the other hand, the complete call diversion does not entail the need to reject
the call, as the latter will be automatically blocked.
The paid service also allows you to benefit from further
advantages, such as: the possibility of making the sound of the free line heard
by the senders of anonymous calls when in reality Whooming has already tracked
the number; the recording of conversations intercepted by Whooming with the
attached possibility of downloading them to the computer;
SMS notifications, to
receive a message with the number of the caller. These latter functions can be
particularly useful in cases where the conduct of the anonymous person may
integrate the extremes of a crime.
Whooming is also available as an app for Android smartphones
and for iPhones through which you can check the history of calls received and
manage your account from a mobile phone.
How to find anonymous
phone calls: disable Whooming
Whooming can be turned off at any time by typing ## 002 # on
the phone's numeric keypad and then starting a phone call. After dialing and
calling the code indicated above, a message will appear warning that the
service has been deactivated.
It is good to remember that Whooming is not foolproof: a
very skilled person could still manage to get around this service using some
more sophisticated techniques than simply obscuring the caller's phone number.
How to find out calls
from private numbers: TrueCaller
A problem very similar to that of anonymous calls concerns
calls from a private number , that is, those of commercial operators. A viable
solution is provided by TrueCaller : this is an app free that allows you to
identify (and possibly blocking) calls from call centers and more or less
authorized traders. The service also allows you to search for mobile numbers
and landline numbers and easily trace their owners.
The drawback of TrueCaller is the obligation to share your mobile phone number with other
users: this means that the number becomes public and easily traceable. The
application is available for both
Android and iOS
and Windows Phone . Installation
is simple and intuitive: after downloading it to your smartphone , you need to
start it and follow the guided procedure for creating your account . You must
then enter your mobile number in the appropriate field, wait for the number to
be verified with an automatic call by TrueCaller and fill in the form that is
proposed.TrueCaller can identify unwanted calls but not automatically reject
them.
How to find out calls
from private numbers: Should I answer?
Should I Answer?
is
another valid (free) tool for Android , very similar to TrueCaller. The device,
in fact, blocks the calls that come from commercial operators present in a
database that is enriched every day thanks to user reports. The advantage of
Should I Answer? It is that it does not need to share your phone number:
privacy is therefore saved. This app is also freely downloadable.
