Just received a call with Caller ID *UNKNOWN*

Hello?
Hi. I'm....
How come you're blocking your caller ID?
I don't know.
Well, I don't want to talk to you.
OK, bye bye.

Gotta remember this one I tell ya.

mark_digital©, 4/7/2007,9:28:07 AM, wrote:

That is a feature that is added to many voice services. The user may
really not know they are using that feature without taking a good look
at their bill.

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 09:28:07 -0400, "mark_digital©"
<XXX-976 (AT) commacast (DOT) com> wrote:

A lot of business phone systems are using alternative phone
providers and digital phone systems that are not set up to send Caller
ID out - some are done unwittingly (nobody bothered to program it, or
they didn't know how) but others do it purposely to fool or obfuscate.

Of course, if they couldn't do that, how did they program it
properly for outgoing 911 calls? Hmmm...

I usually won't answer at home with an Unavailable or a business
name I don't do business with, and if that's accompanied by a faked or
800/888/877 phone number it goes double. The answering machine gets
to screen the call, and the outgoing message says "No Anonymous Caller
ID calls, and no sales calls accepted".

Reason being, there are too many Non-Profits and Politicians out
there with alleged exemptions from the Do Not Call List. And if they
get through and protest that the DNC List doesn't apply to them, I
remind them that they should check and respect it anyways - it just
might contain people who DO NOT WANT SALES CALLS. Exempt or not.

And on the cellphone that gets some work calls I answer the phone
"Hello, Unavailable Caller" and won't say who I am until they say who
they are - They're knocking at the door, I decide whether to let them
in. Then if it's a business with a mis-programmed phone system I tell
them to get it fixed - It's simple to program it to send the company
name and the 'pilot number' if they don't want people to know exactly
which extension is calling.

In some cases I've been telling them over, and over, and over, and
over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and
over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and
over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

They may get a clue eventually, I doubt it - but I won't stop. ;-)

--<< Bruce >>--

badgolferman, 4/7/2007,10:29:31 AM, wrote:

I forgot to mention if someone uses a calling card it also will not
show who is calling.