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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Making It Harder For Witnesses To Hide

Let’s say you’re a witness, and you think you’re being crafty by constantly hiding from me. I’ve left countless business cards with my cellular telephone number on your front door and numerous messages with family members…but you continue to hide.

One day, you decide to call me at 3am from a blocked number, knowing that your message will probably go straight to voice mail (it does) and you won’t have to talk to me.

You do this every time you want to leave a message with me and there is nothing I can do about it because of your damn blocked number…

Until now.

TrapCall.Com is a new service that offers cellular telephone users the ability to set-up their cell phones to “unblock” blocked numbers that are calling their phones….actively! The incoming caller has no idea their number is being unblocked! I love technology!

The service is FREE! Well, if you just want to have blocked numbers unblocked…that service is free. They also offer some other really cool services that are unfortunately not legal here in California so I can’t use them but I have the Unblock service set up on my phone and it works like a charm!

The other services they offer?

Update: Anyone interested in BLOCKING their number or even pretend to call from a number they're not actually using should check out Spoofcard. This stuff used to be in limited use by law enforcement and even collection agencies but now its available to anyone with computer and a phone....for better or worse.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is nothing new, and anyone who knows much about telephone systems should not be suprised.

Fact is, there are two "caller id" numbers - true Caller ID, and ANI (Automatic Number Identification).

While the Caller ID can be set (or blocked) very easily (hell, I can do it with a simple VOIP account), the ANI is a different beast entirely, and is almost always unblocked.

The trick to blocking your ANI is to simply use any VOIP service - the ANI then is the number of the landline the call is originated from, which will change on a per call basis. So while the callee might see a number, it will be incorrect.

Will said...

Doesn't work with Verizon...