I am not sure this is a good idea, some people turn their ID off for various reasons. Calls from my kids are often “Number Unknown” because they work at Defence establishments where mobile phones are not allowed inside and for obvious reasons the establishment’s number is secret.
Doesnt apply to me though, Bruce.
Partly because i have no friends or family who need to hide their number, but also, even if they did that for any reason, they would still speak and leave me a message.
I feel safer with the answerphone thanks.
I’m a fairly laid back person so I try not to let them wind me up. But neither do I engage. As soon as it’s obvious it’s a cold call or a scammer I just quietly put the phone down, forget it and move on
These annoyance factor of these things can build up if you let them in your head
cold calling should be illegal. I’m forever reminding my dad to make sure he doesn’t give any information out as he gets nuisance calls even though he’s on a block list, they still somehow get through. They prey on the vulnerable and the scammers are frightening the elderly
i hope its ok to put this here but I did search for phone scams and found this thread. Someone phoned today and said they were from a washing machine repair centre, so I said that the world was approaching a possible world war and they thought it was a good time to try and scam money from me???
Out of the last twenty-two calls to my mobile, only six of them are genuine. My phone displays the number of the caller and I know damn well that I don’t know anyone from some of the locations displayed.
I copy the number and paste it into the Who-called-me website to see if anyone else has been contacted by the same number, and to read their comments if any.
The numbers are then reported as spam on my phone and blocked. No more calls from those bstds again.
sometimes I pick up.the phone with the intention of giving some kind of nasty or early remark and have complete contempt in my attitude and voice, only to discover that it is actually a legitimate call. I hate that way that these nuisance calls have created a semi automatic nasty mode of myself.
Personally, I answer every call, if they are spam calls I just hang up and block the number.
When my kids ring from their work the number is always “Private” so I have no choice. However I would be lucky to get one spam call every couple of weeks. Charities etc don’t seem to like calling mobile phones and anyway I never give them my phone number when I donate.
I now only have a mobile phone, my VOIP/land line has been disconnected
