Rings and Phone Pranks: Telephone Threats Are Criminal

According to the law, a threat is defined as words, written or spoken, whose purpose is to intimidate other persons. Threats are often used to gain advantage over a person or situation or sometimes threats are used to make a person do something even if it is against his or her own will. Threatening to use a weapon on a person, threatening to injure a person or a person’s property and threatening to injure a person’s reputation are considered offenses in all states.

What Is A Telephone Threat?

A telephone threat is a threat done through the telephone or any wired communication. A telephone call can be called a telephone threat when the caller has the intent of frightening, intimidating and harassing and to threaten to inflict harm or bodily injury to a person or the property of a person. Calling through the telephone with the intent to intimidate, abuse, frighten, threaten, offend or harass and uses any lewd, obscene or profane language or suggests any vulgar or lascivious act is considered a telephone threat.

Telephone threat doesn’t only mean to have a conversation with the victim. Making the telephone of another person to ring repeatedly with the intent to harass the person is considered a telephone threat. When a person makes repeated calls, with or without conversations, with the intent to harass a person is still a telephone threat.

Allowing a person to use your own telephone for the purpose of intimidating, abusing, frightening, threatening, offending or harassing a person is also guilty of telephone threat.

How To Handle Telephone Threats

It is quite scary experience to receive telephone threats. When receiving these kinds of call, there are ways to lessen your fear so that you will be able to focus in gathering some information about the caller which could help in identifying him or her.

When faced with a telephone threat you need to take note of some things. First thing that should be noted is the telephone number from which the call is being done. The second thing to note is the exact time of call. The third is to try and take note of the exact words of the caller. Fourth is ask the caller some questions.

There are questions that you could ask during a threat call which could help in identifying and locating the caller such as “What is your name?” “What is your address?” “Where are you calling from?” The fifth point that should be noted are the following: the quality of the voice of the caller, the sex of the caller, approximate age of caller, does the caller’s voice sound familiar, is there a background music.

Penalty for Telephone Threat

Telephone Threat is considered as a class B misdemeanor. As such, it is punishable by law with a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, jail confinement of not more than six months, or both fine and imprisonment.

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