How to Block Your Cell Phone Number

How to Block Your Cell Phone Number

When you are using a cell phone, there are several times when you want to block your cell number. This may be in cases when you have lost your cell phone or your sim card and want to avoid its misuse. For this reason, it is important that you must contact the service provider immediately from the other number and take necessary actions to block the number. Here you will know how to block your cell phone number if you face such situations.

How to lock the cell Phone Number you are calling?

If you want to block your number from being visible on the cell phone screen of the person you are calling, you can follow the procedure provided below.

When you are thinking of blocking your number from being visible on the called person’s caller ID, you have two options – you can either permanently block your cell number or you can block the number on call by call basis. For doing this, you will not need any expensive phone blocking device. It is an easy and affordable procedure.  

Blocking your Number Permanently:

The best solution for blocking your cell phone number is to request the line block from your phone carrier. Below are some steps to do this.

·        The procedure for blocking the number is quite simple and fast. For blocking the number from being visible on the called person’s screen, you will have to call the customer care service of the specific service provider and request for the number block.

·        Firstly, you will have to know the number of your customer service provider. Dial the number and ask the customer service executive for the information to block the number.

·        The customer service executive will ask you some questions for verification and provide you with the information required.

·        You can either block the number by sending the SMS request from your number or you can block it from the customer service end.

·        If you want to again unblock the number, you have the option to contact the service provider for the same.

How to Block your number temporarily?

Sometimes it is not necessary to block your number for all the callers but you need to block it for the particular called person. In this case, you need to block your number temporarily. For some person, you may not want to know him that you have called him/her 15-20 times in a row. You can use this facility in such cases. It is quite easy to block the cell number temporarily.

·        For blocking the number temporarily, you need to know that “special number” used to activate this service for the particular call. For blocking the number temporarily, you can dial *67 before the number. For example: *67 555-555-5555

·        You will not receive any feedback or the confirmation for activation of the service. You can test it by calling on the other number with the caller ID facility.

Keep in mind that the number blocking will not work for the emergency services or the toll free numbers. It is applicable only for the business and individual numbers.