That's my general rule: if there isn't a name, I don't answer. Oddly, I have
one provider that has some weird blocking thing that shows up when the phone
rings. I answer it now because all the scammers are spoofing with fake numbers.
Got caught yesterday by a scammer because I was walking, with phone tucked away
in pocket and mostly inaccessible, so I answered using the switch on the
earbuds. It was Lisa from credit card services, the same asshole outfit that
told me to go fuck myself.
Your theory about your number dropping off because you are unresponsive has
merit. I'm trying to figure out why occasionally my phone offers me the
Accept/Decline option, but most of the time it's Answer/Send Message.
--Bob
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 6/19/2017 8:39 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> . . .
>>
>> There are all kinds of terrible things I'd like to wish upon these people,
>> but I'm trying to learn to be a better person.
>
> Not just that. There are at least a few of us, here and in the 'real' world,
> who would like you to stay in this incarnation for a long time. Stressing
> about phone calls and wishing terrible things out into the world are both
> health risks.
>
>> Some days are better than others. <g>
>
> The answer is dead simple; if the number is not in your contacts, so doesn't
> show up as a name - DON'T ANSWER. If they actually are people you should talk
> to, they will leave a message. If you want to answer the next time they call,
> either add the number to an existing contact or create a new one. On iOS, I
> don't know if there is a limit to the number of numbers* that may be stored
> for any contact, but it is at least several.
>
> So the agency has several outgoing lines; they all show up as the same name
> when the phone rings.You could just add them as you encounter them, or ask
> what they are, and add them to the Contact all at once, by hand.
>
> If you want to be extra polite, your outgoing message could mention that you
> will not answer unknown numbers, so leave a message. But mostly, I think
> folks prefer short OGMs to lengthy politeness.
>
> I've been following this practice for years. I've not had a single instance
> where I found I missed an important call from a caller who wouldn't leave a
> message. Of course, I don't know about the one from John Beresford Tipton,
> Jr, when he just moved on to the next name on his list. No, wait, he had his
> man come to your door with the check.
>
> People who want or need to talk to you leave messages; it's that simple.
>
> Anecdotally, I seem to receive far fewer of these calls than others who
> complain about them, maybe one a day, on average, certainly not two. Might
> this be because my number gets flagged, somewhere, as non-responsive, a dead
> number/end, because it NEVER answers? I suspect the tactic of messing with
> the callers, trying to talk to a person, and so on, may be self-defeating, in
> addition to ineffectual.
>
> Calling All Moose
>
> * Numbers² ?
>
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