Unknown Caller

loveandlight

Does anyone know if its possible to find out who called or at least from what part of the country the call was from when you get a call and it comes up as unknown caller on the iphone 5?

Fightsback

Only if you work for GCHQ can you find out.

John_Gray

If the OP had worked for GCHQ s/he wouldn't have asked the question!

vuvuzela

loveandlight wrote: »

Does anyone know if its possible to find out who called or at least from what part of the country the call was from when you get a call and it comes up as unknown caller on the iphone 5?

There is no way you can do this unless you work for :
the mobile network that the call was received on (and are prepared to compromise your job),
the police (with an appropriate warrant) or
(as said) GCHQ.

kwikbreaks

I thought the NSA knew too...

forgotmyname

Answer it and ask them?

Too easy to fake numbers oe use international numbers very cheaply these days.

System

It is in all probability a cold call, so either :-

*ignore the call
*cut it off
*look in "calls log" >options>block call

If it is a friend that prefixes their calls with 141, then it is their loss. They will soon get to realise you are not responding and drop the 141

Bollotom

John_Gray wrote: »

If the OP had worked for GCHQ s/he wouldn't have asked the question!

Oh, I don't know. Could have been a cleaner.

To keep on thread. Some firms can be abroad but have a UK number that redirects the caller, so possibly net even in the UK. :cool:

AndyPix

No there is no way to do this.
If it becomes a problem then contact your operator who WILL know who the caller is and will contact them to tell them to stop.
However they WILL NOT tell you who the caller is ..

At the end of the day, it is someone who doesn't want to identify themselves before you answer the call .
That in its-self is enough to tell you that you don't want to speak to them IMHO

Andy

Chrishazle

Not necessarily - our friends in the next village are X Directory No Calls (as are we) so when they call us (or vice versa) the phone shows "Unknown, Number Withheld" even though they are in the address book on our phone!

Big_Graeme

Same happens if you are behind a switchboard.