How to trace a burner phone number
Burner phones are often used to harass someone anonymously. Many people contact us because they receive harassing text messages from numerous burner phone numbers. They ask us how to trace a burner phone number. Is this even possible? Is there such a thing as an untraceable phone? Can you trace a burner phone?
Through someone’s mobile phone and phone number, you can obtain much of their information. A disposable phone or fake number reduces how easily this information can be traced. However, unlike many people think, a burner phone can be traced.
What is a burner phone?
A burner phone is a cheap, prepaid mobile phone that people get when they don’t intend to use it long-term, or for purposes like harassment, drug dealing, and other malicious purposes. A burner phone can be used to make and receive anonymous calls and send anonymous text messages. And because burner phones are cheap, they are easy to ditch.
Burner phones are purchased because people think it doesn’t leave a trail. Often these phones are purchased with cash to avoid a paper trail that would link individuals to the phone number. There is no purchase receipt when using cash, and the number and SIM card are hard to trace back to an individual because it’s not tied to a credit card or any other personal data.
Can you trace a burner phone?
Burner phones are mainly used because of their anonymity, to stay off the grid, and to hide your identity. But can you trace a burner phone number? And how to trace a burner phone number?
The answer is yes. A burner phone number can be traced. However, it is difficult to trace a burner phone without specialized tools. Furthermore, unless the burner phone is used in a serious crime, it is very unlikely that police or prosecutors would allocate the resources required to solve the crime. This is evidenced by the fact that only three in 1,000 cyber crimes are prosecuted in Western countries.
However, Rexxfield has invested many years in developing the technology tools and social engineering methods to trick the malicious user into revealing his or her identity, by geographic pinpointing of the suspect through triangulation using the 911/112 emergency beacon provisions of the network, with Rexxfield’s proprietary methods.
If you have a suspect
If you are being harassed through text messages from a fake number through a burner phone, or spoofed phone numbers by a texting app, and you have a suspect, we can rule in or rule out that person as the antagonist. Our investigators will attempt to find matching data, such as a matching IP address, or other identifying data, which you can use as evidence to positively identify the suspect.
Through the Internet Service Provider
If you can’t rule in or rule out the suspect or don’t have a suspect, you can use the information that our investigators have traced, to have your lawyer or law enforcement subpoena the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to obtain customer/subscriber information that belongs to the IP address and much more information.
All mobile phones, even burner phones and burner apps go through a cellular carrier or virtual number operator. The cellular carrier is involved in every text, phone call, and data link, and holds account information that reveals a subscriber’s identity. You can obtain information such as call logs, data usage, text messages, and location information from the cellular carrier or virtual number operator through a subpoena, served by law enforcement or a lawyer.
The average citizen cannot obtain these details from a service provider. Only through a lawyer or law enforcement will a service provider provide a report on subscribers and their activities. How you can obtain customer records from service providers varies based on their policy and their operating jurisdiction. Citizen privacy differs depending on the laws of the country, state, province and municipality.
After tracing a burner phone and tracing burner phone numbers, we compile our discovered information in a report and help your lawyer or law enforcement write the subpoena. Because we have years of experience subpoenaing service providers, we know exactly how and what to ask for.