Unknown, private, nothing .... do you answer?

mommyboo I got that idiot I really did he called again so and so finance company for steven and I told him you have a private room in Gold Crest retirement center, you have a wrong number, he stuttered and stammered and said,maam I will delete your number from our list. I said you had better do that at once. Yes it is illegal and I would talk to the phone company about him.

We got a call ... well multiple calls from some agency who was trying to track down 'a person of interest' and they kept calling our house. This person never even LIVED here, in fact I found out he was a DISTANT relative of someone who used to live here but it has been at least 8 years since THAT person even lived here, and the phone number was different back then. Anyway, my son was unlucky enough to answer one of the latter calls from the agency and when he complained that he had no idea who the guy was asking for... this 'person of interest', the agency guy told my son 'ha, he does SO live there, I'll just call back for him later'. WTF? Isn't it illegal to harrass someone like that?

I can always tell if it's one of my friends calling me... plus friends will tell you who they are immediately. If it sounds unfamiliar, I won't even admit that it's me, I will say 'may I ask who's calling' and if it's some jerk I don't want to talk to, I'll say 'ok I'll take a message' or 'she's not available right now' or sometimes 'you have a wrong number' LOL!

I just hate it when someone is mistaking with the number

I had an incident where I actually answered an 'unavailable' and the only reason I did it AT ALL was because I thought it was my husband calling from a pay phone since he left his cell on the desk. It turned out to be some guy I didn't know who thought I was someone else he knew. He sang to me and tried to hit on me, it was bizarre. He then continued to call me back for the next several weeks. This is one reason I really wish it were possible to delegate all unknown or calls you don't want to a reject voicemail.

I have reported two businesses who didn't stop calling to the national do not call registry by filing complaints. After the complaints were investigated, I received no more calls from those businesses. I know they were fined because the hard copy information sent to me showed them to be in the wrong for continually calling me sometimes up to 7 times a day, which of course the businesses tried to deny, but I kept track. My phone records reflected how many times those numbers continued to call AFTER I spoke with a manager and requested to be removed. I also had warned them I would report them to the do not call registry as non compliant if they kept calling, so I did. I think there needs to be a more direct way of bringing the hammer down, so to speak. I am not afraid to get my hands dirty to force some idiotic business to quit calling me, but I wish it was quicker and easier to do it and they couldn't get retribution in any way.

I take that one further... I expect people to actually know who they are calling before they call me. I have answered before by saying 'hello' and the person on the other end - THE ONE CALLING ME - has actually said 'who's this?' Excuse me, WHO'S THIS? YOU called ME. If you don't know who you're calling after you dialed the number, then you are too stupid to own a phone lol.

I'm not sure. I have had my cell number for 5 years now... imported from a different carrier twice - and our home number we have had for probably 7 years. I am still unsure why we get calls for other people at both numbers... and I have them listed with the do not call registry. Recently my husband started getting calls on his cell, which is even odder. His number is completely unlisted, we don't give it to ANYBODY. One of my closest friends has his number, I have the number, and I think a few guys from his work have the number, well and our older kids have it too. we don't voice call it though, it's basically texting only. That's it. So we can't figure out how anybody else got ahold of it - except the people calling it aren't even calling for HIM, so go figure. It's still annoying to get multiple phone calls per day FOR someone else and when you tell them to remove the number they say they will but then they call AGAIN. It's enough to make me want to shoot somebody. I asked the carrier if they could block all incoming calls except for from specific numbers and they said they can't. If I have to consolidate everything and then use parental controls to do it down the road, I might lol. I think with parental controls you can basically have a phone with unlimited everything BUT you can block all inc calls EXCEPT for specific numbers, and also block texts except from specific numbers. Therefore he could still call and text anybody he wants but nobody except the people he wants to hear from can contact him. That would be perfect. I'd do the same on my phone.