/diy/ - Do It Yourself

And before anyone suggests one of those websites that traces the call for you, I already know about those.

Go to command line.
Type: tracert phonenumber
???
Profit.

>>1259730
I assume this applies if the call is received via landline? Because this is being received on a cellphone, I guess I should have said that in the beginning!

>>1259700
Depending on how busy I am, my choice is to fuck with them. Usually keeping my voice low enough they can barely hear me then ramping it up, claiming the line is noisy, asking them to repeat themselves.
My all time favorite was that "heather with card services" scam. Picked up, they gave the spiel, and I calmly told them, "There is a bomb in your building." and hung up. Never called me back. And if they ever did try to press charges they would have to reveal who they are.

Oh, and this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0

>>1259700
I had problem that was something like this. When I was living at my moms house I had the phone and internet in my name and paying for it. My stupid bitch ass cunt of a sister use my home number for a online "loan". I was getting a call from an India guy with a Florida number. He kept calling and harassing me. So I got tired of his shit, told him to fuck off. He kept calling and telling me to fuck off. Told him that I wanted to talk to his manager, and behold, he played as the manager. I hung up and unplug the home phone.

I ended up searching the phone number and found out it was a Magic Jack number. I contacted Magic Jack and told them what happen, gave them the number, and they disabled his number.

>>1259732
Side load gentoo

>>1259757
How would I go about doing that? Are you talking about running commands through my cellphone via computer/Gentoo?

>>1259700
If you were going to the authorities anyway might as well do it from the start.
We had some nuisance calls and ended up calling the phone company, they put some monitor on the line and when the call came in had to hang up then immediately dial a service number which logged the previous incoming number even if it was private or withheld. Then the phone company passed the number onto the police on our behalf, we didn't get to see it which might not be what you are after.

>>1259748
FUCK YES I ACTUALLY PARAPHRASED THAT. held a fake publishers clearing house on the line for over an hour! Then the dipshit calls the next day like we have never talked and left me his number. So over the next 2 weeks i called him so much he caught on to my tricks and would cuss me out. I then recorded random stuff i said asking him questions and would just play through the shitty computer speakers. Fucking calls like 5-10 minutes all day long. Put that shit on fb asking to use other peoples phones and he fliped the fuck out so hard.

>mfw i kept a scammer busy and violently raging for 4 fucking days.

>>1259730
>tracert phonenumber

>>1259878
if it's good enough for NCIS, its good enough for OP

>>1259748

This will never work, staged call for a radio show.

Use Jolly Roger tho- that DOES work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVJ4JQ3SUw

waste of time for the most part. There is no threatening them, etc. All you can do is make their scams harder to pull off by getting their stolen accounts shut down, or reporting phone call or merchant services, so that other people might be saved from the scam for a short period of time.
Spoofing caller ID for cheap has been done since the 90s. It's completely meaningless usually, unless you get a call back number that isn't a rented redirect number.
Only way to track anything down is to use a burner prepaid phone so your number doesn't end up on the shit list of "call every 20 minutes automatically 24/7", call saying you got a message at work for you, [common first, last name] bullshit them to all hell. Once they start their pitch about you owing X amount or will be arrested, etc. try to get something like an address to mail a check since you don't have a credit/debit card and can't get cash to take to western union etc, or something along the lines of a bank account to do a transfer to, saying that's the only way you can pay. Or, if they want a credit card, say you need their info to preapprove it to your bank to allow the charge, etc.
Unless you have the social engineering skills to get info that you can report to the Feds, or if find out they have some american address you could flood them with gay porn trial subscriptions etc.

>>1259927
I like the way you think, I'll update once they call again.

>>1259878
Because, you know, phone numbers are the same as IP addresses right?

>>1259700
Literally just start blocking phone numbers when you recieve the calls.

Don't answer them
Decline the call
Block the phone number

I have between 10-20 blocked phone calls a day from the equifax breech.