Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: How to Access Your Phone Recordings
• Method 2 of 2: How to Access Another Person's Phone Recordings
• Warnings

Telephone records are a record of incoming and outgoing calls served by a cellular operator. Getting your phone records is pretty straightforward. But getting the records of another person's mobile phone, for example, a family member or an unfaithful spouse, is much more difficult. This article will show you what to do if you need these recordings badly.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: How to Access Your Phone Recordings

1. 1 Check your accounts. If you receive a bill for cellular services every month, it will most likely contain records of your calls and messages for the last reporting period.
   • If you do not have a strong need for these records now, but think that they may be useful to you in the future, keep them in a safe and secure place.
   • The records will contain certain standard information, including the date, call start time, call duration, and (sometimes) special features that were activated during the call (for example, call recording).
2. 2 View records of calls from your phone online. Many telephone companies give their subscribers the ability to access the same information that you received in the form of an invoice on the site of the service provider. For this. you need to have an online account to see your entries.
   • Register an account on the mobile operator's website, if you have not already done so. You will need to create a unique username (sometimes a phone number or email address is used as the username) and a password. This process will go faster if you have all your account information at your fingertips.
   • Once you are logged into your account, look for a section called Call Information or Call Log. If you don't see a similar option on the homepage, you may need to look for a heading with the word "Service". Be aware that in some companies you will only be able to find out about outgoing calls. If you need a complete record of phone calls (including incoming calls from phones that are no longer in service), it is possible that you may not receive such records.
3. 3 Call your cellular service provider. If you have lost the records sent to you or cannot find them online, then call your cellular operator. They are legally required to keep such records and provide them to someone who can prove that they are the primary owner of the account.
   • Be prepared to provide personal information that will help the customer service representative identify your account, such as your account or mobile phone number, current home address and phone number, and the last four digits of your Social Security number.
   • Since your cellular service provider was supposed to provide you with this information on a monthly report, they may charge you a fee to re-provide this information.
4. 4 Set a trap. If you are often called by annoying advertisers or a stalker, and their phone number is not displayed, then they are blocking your caller ID. Your real phone number will not appear on most devices. In this case, you need to contact the telephone company and ask them to set a "trap" on your phone. Thanks to it, you can recognize all the numbers that have called you and unblock your caller ID. The phone number will never be displayed as "unknown" again, and you will be able to recognize the caller.

Method 2 of 2: How to Access Another Person's Phone Recordings

1. 1 Check out the legal restrictions. If the account is not in any way tied to your name, you will not be able to get the records of another person in an easy way (even calls from your spouse). If you receive records without the consent of the account owner, then in court they will be considered invalid.
2. 2 Check your phone call records on your payroll. If you are constantly called by someone or you suspect that the person with whom you share a tariff plan is making inappropriate calls, then all the records will be on your mobile phone bill.
   • Often times, the records will be divided into incoming and outgoing calls. Less ordered entries are merged together, but will still contain a list of outgoing and incoming calls.
3. 3 View call records online. As in the previous case, telephone companies must keep records of all incoming and outgoing calls that have been made to and from the number registered to you. Whether you want to track the number from which the person who is persistently stalking you is calling or are interested in the conversations of your spouse or children, the mobile operator has records that will be useful to you.
   • In order to access the call records on the operator's website, you first have to create an account.
   • After you log into your account, find the section "Call Information" or "Call Log".
4. 4 Call your cellular service provider. Ask them for a new copy of the records if you cannot find them otherwise. They are required by law to keep such records and make them available to anyone who can prove that they are the primary owner of the account.
   • Be prepared to provide personal information that will help the customer service representative identify your account, such as your account or mobile phone number, current home address and phone number, and the last four digits of your Social Security number.
5. 5 Get the records through a court petition. It is possible to obtain records of telephone conversations of the estranged spouse within the framework of a court case by requesting this information from the mobile operator through a petition. This is a legal method of obtaining records of mobile calls that your lawyer can use in court.
   • Call records can only be obtained by petition during a court case or divorce. Usually the petition must be approved by the judges, but this depends on the type of proceedings.
   • An alternative to a subpoena is to buy telephone recordings from a data broker who charges a fee. These brokers often run businesses of questionable legitimacy (depending on the methods used to obtain these records) and the resulting records will not be accepted in court.

Warnings

• Data brokers often fraudulently obtain call records by calling a mobile operator and pretending to be the person they want the records from.