If a person is bothering another person through a private phone number is there anyway to prove the identity of the harasser?
If you have the caller’s phone number or name and the harassment is something more extreme then “they keep calling”, I’d start with the police…assuming that won’t make things worse, a knock on the doorbell from a uniformed officer asking them to stop it, might be all it takes.
If it’s a cell phone, see if there’s a way to change that ring to ‘silence’ or straight to voice mail. If it’s a landline, get a program like phonetray to block the call as it comes in (with the free version it’ll let one ring get through and then hang up on them).
If you don’t have the caller’s phone number (and you don’t know who it is), you’ll need to call the phone company, have them put a trace on your line, document when the calls come in, call the telco back, they’ll let you know if they can figure out which number it is, then may need a court order to get the number.
See if *57 works in your area (actually, I assume you’d be told to use it the first time you complained to the phone company if it is available). It does a call trace that can’t be blocked with *67 but you don’t get the results; phone company security and the police get the results. With all the VOIP calls and caller-id faking going on these days I doubt that *57 is 100% reliable, but it is a start. You would then call the phone company, report the details of the call, and see what they can do from there.
Thanks for the info. 