| "Track text messages" is becoming a very common | | | | to track text messages. This gives the sender of |
| online search. This is due to the increasing use of | | | | anonymous or prank text messages a sense of |
| anonymous or prank SMS text message | | | | confidence that they can send messages without |
| communications. Prank texts are becoming the new | | | | being caught. Until now. |
| version of the old 'prank calls'. Technology has made it | | | | For some reason, there is no central cell phone |
| much easier in recent years to identify the source of a | | | | directory (unlike residential phone directories) that |
| prank call or even a prank or unknown text. | | | | anyone can utilize to find out who owns a phone |
| The technology that put prank callers out of business | | | | number. It might be due to the fact that there are so |
| before the use of cellular phones was Caller id. Unless | | | | many cell phone companies in the marketplace. Savvy |
| a phone number was a private or unlisted number, the | | | | online businesses saw a need and created services |
| name of the owner along with the actual phone | | | | that collect cell phone numbers and load into their own |
| number displayed on the Caller id. Caller id technology | | | | personal databases to be used to perform cellular |
| continued with the invention of cell phones, however a | | | | phone number searches. This enables anyone to find |
| critical piece of information was missing - the name of | | | | out who own a phone number that has either been |
| the person that owned the number. Enter SMS text | | | | calling or texting you. |
| messaging technology that makes it extremely difficult | | | | |