Urgent Message (Phone or Text) not for me - What to Do!

I registered my cell number on the do not call registry as soon as they announced that the cell numbers could receive the telemarketing calls and text messages. I have to add one that my BF received one day...we both got a really good laugh out of it: "Your dog $hit in my bedroom". It obviously was sent to someone's room mate. My BF called the number and explained to the person that he was sorry that the dog crapped in her bedroom but it wasn't his dog, and that he doesn't own a dog. The person was extremely embarrassed but also saw the humor in the fact that she sent the email to the wrong number. He still has that text message on his phone and when he needs a good laugh he pulls it up again.

Well I myself have been lucky so far all I've gotten are some stupid spam texts. Since I have a prepaid phone I'm greatful that they are few and far between. Though if someone were to contact me by mistake and the situation was important like the "pick me up at the airport" or the grandma I would definitely try to contact those people to let them know they dialed the wrong number. If it were just the "love you, waiting to hear from you." I would just ignore that. Sweet as it be no need to respond as it's not an urgent situation. My basic rule is I tell myself Keep It Simple Stupid as in using simple methods to judge whether or not the situation merits a response. For example if I were the one that dialed the wrong number, and my message was a simple "I love you" would I feel that it is urgent someone let me know I dialed the wrong number? Not really. If I had dialed the wrong number and texted Hey Joe "my brother John fell off the ladder and broke his back" and you are not Joe and that is not Joe's phone then yes I would greatly appreciate someone letting me know I sent it to the wrong phone so that I could then resend it to the right place. So I read the message sent and put myself in the senders shoes to think whether it is very important that the message be sent to the right person. I hope all this makes sense?

If I received a text message and it wasn't for me I would text the person back and let them know...if they are calling and they leave me a message then they are stupid for not listening to the voicemail because I say my name lol. But I don't pick up for phone numbers that I don't know.

Sometimes these people do this as pranks, however I wouldn't want to suggest that it's a prank straight away. Ring the person back, however if there is no way for conacting them, then there is nothing you can do. Last year I got a message from this girl thinking its her boyfriend. I ignored it. She then rang later and I picked the phone up. Her thinking it was her boyfriend, she probably thinks he had an affair or something.

If it's a message that I think is important, then yes, I will give it an honest effort to contact the sender to let them know that their message ended up in the wrong place. If it's just so and so calling to say hello or if there really is no way to get a hold of the person who called, then I just go ahead and delete it. A couple of times, I have gotten some very grateful responses to these wrong numbers.

I do not have this problem regarding my cell phone. However, my parents home phone number has 1 digit that is different than the post office. For example, my number is 555-5555, and the post office's number is 555-5055. You can guess we get plenty of calls. I used to answer the call and have people request to talk to certain departments or branches. I would say hold on one second and then sing for a bit and hang up the phone.

If it is an urgent message then I would call the person or text the person back to let them know they had the wrong person. If it was just something that did not really seem urgent I would probably not bother unless I really did not have anything better to do.

Hi there, well i also received messages from unknown person. And i dont do anything after reading it for me its a waste of time because i know its just an error. Sometimes i also received phone calls and number was not with my phonebook so i have to accept the calls and there are times they are looking for someone i just told them wrong number and hang the phone. Keep on mylotting

Sadly, I never really had the chance to do something with those wrong send messages. but probably if i get text number six my response would be "I won't be needing it, go back" but most of the time i just delete them because it's not my problem..

I would try to contact the sender and tell him that his messages were misdirected to u. politely request the sender to recheck the number, redirect his messages and delete ur number from his phone book ... and never to send messages to u again. with the number of message he is sending, he seems sure that he is sending it to the intended party and expecting that he send his messages through. the above case deserves to be called or informed that he is directing his messages to the wrong party. text messages or calls that i mostly ignore are those coming from people who obviously have nothing to do in life but just making these prank calls. some people kill time by trying their luck of having friends by randomly sending messages to different phone numbers.

If it were to happen only once or twice I would ignore the call. However, if it is a reoccurring situation I would make the effort to contact them and let them know that they have the wrong number. These messages may not be of any importance, but it is still good to let them know so that when the message is important they will know and not get the wrong number.

I get many wrong calls to my landline .I think its not their problem but its our number which is just different from theirs I think we should just ignore them or change our number.

Getting phone mesages or text messages on your cell phone which are not for you is not good actually i suggest people who send these kind of messages not to send and disturb others expect in case of emergencys. I suggest you to ignore all those msg which you feel that are disturbing you. Better to inform that person by making a call if that is from a moblie number. But dont ignore any messages which are very emergency or needs more importance to be given.