Can you track down a telephone number somehow, even if it came up as a private listing on Caller I.D?
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In the movies they show the FBI having to keep a caller on the line for a couple of minutes to trace the call. Yet in real life as soon as the call connects the phone company meter starts ticking. They know what number called and what number was called. Is something not adding up here?

Sixto
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Yes, this is true that we know the number called and being called. However, it is considered private information at this point, and not open to public data. As I monitor switches for Verizon, it typically takes some form of government request to have a number flagged to be visible when being called. It then requires an engineering session to have the number flagged to be visible in the switch data stream that is constantly being produced. The only numbers that display in the switch data without exception is 911 calls.

Agreed, but in the time it takes the FBI to set-up all that tracking equipment, can't the phone company be alerted to monitor the source of incoming calls? Assuming it's a local land line calling.

I'm just poking fun at Hollywood. When people put down the phone on me, I don't hear a dial tone immediately like I see in the movies. I figure that's just to make the point that the other party hung up.

Sixto
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As far as I know, unless they are doing call tracing on a line where they intend to record the conversation, there is no equipment to set up. Flagging a number is done by doing what is known as an engineering session on the switch, and telling it to display all calls related to a specific number. The commands vary from switch to switch, but the process is the same.

Maybe I'm thinking of older movies where they have a van full of open reel recorders and then a room of the house is strung with wires wall-to-wall with yet another slew of open reel recorders. Am I a victim of special effects?

Sixto
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