Should I use a reverse cell phone service on a prank call I received?

A difficult question and one that you really have to answer on your own, but how badly do you need to know who owns that number?

If you have been receiving prank message or calls then you can just report them to the police and let them take care of it. If you trust them to pursue it then that should be the matter resolved. Of course if you really want to make sure that someone is going to take action then you need to get in contact with their service provider. The service provider will be interested that one of their customers is behaving like that and it could lead to the individual making the calls being disconnected.

The problem is you can’t phone their service provider without using a cell phone number lookup website as without those websites then I don’t know of any other way of identifying who they are with (unless you phone their voicemail and they haven’t changed their message then sometimes you can tell from that). Even though there is a small charge involved then you can’t argue that the easiest option is to use one and discover the service provider and the name and address of the person.

Then go to the police and report them and give the name and number, then just to make sure go to the phone company too.

Then they can’t escape getting into trouble. Of course they could carry on anyway - but if you know the name of the person you at least have the upperhand and if you confront them with the evidence and let them know you will just keep reporting them then most people will be too cowardly to carry on when you obviously know it is them.

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