I was wondering if there was any way to trace an anonymous/blocked number?

1. When the private number calling you at the first time, immediately TURN OFF you mobile 2. Why?

Because there's a chance for him/her (bloody hell prank caller) to call you back 3. After several minutes, TURN ON again your mobile 4. What happen after that?

Suddenly you will get the message inbox from the provider that said this ******** number was calling you ( * = number ) *I copy/pasted just to clarify.

From your house there is no way at all to do it. Imagine you have your own wire all the way from your house to the local central phone building for your area (phone exchange) where you are linked into the rest of the system. This phone exchange building doesn't have a wire running from there to each and every house on the planet.So instead your call gets bounced along various lines until it gets to your friend's local phone exchange, then into their phone line to their house (local loop).

For your call to go from your home in Libya to your friend's house in Moscow it makes a series of jumps just like all the ip addresses a webpage bounces along to get to your computer. To manage all of this there is a set of extra data sent along in addition to your phone call voice signals. This CLI info includes the time the call was made, the caller's phone number, the receiver's phone number, and the road map of how the call was directed along the network.

That information hides in your phone signal as the phone rings and your caller id box reads it for you. Or rather, some of that information does. You get a cut down and restricted version sent along your local loop part of the call (from phone exchange to your house).

That's how it is for a normal call. Then if someone chooses to block their details from being displayed, an additional restriction is placed on those signals. That information still goes to your local phone exchange because it needs that information to make your call.

However the exchange stops it from then being transmitted to your house and just sends a "sorry, sucks to be you" signal instead. The information never enters your house. Let's say you called 999, 000, 911 or whatever it is in your home of Libya.

The final jump from the phone exchange to the emergency call centre sends as much useful information about the call as it can, regardless of whether you told your number to be blocked or not. For all calls the phone companies need to still hold onto information for purposes such as billing.So yes, there is a record of the call somewhere. Then it moves into the relm of privacy and legal stuff and which functionality each phone company writes into their software.

In Australia a general call centre worker at a phone company can not view that information. If you manage to track down the small part of the phone company that does have software that can access the information they will still have restrictions about what they can hand out. It is likely they will hand the information to law enforcement officers upon request, assuming that the software to view it is available.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.