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Buckeye_Democrat

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13. Yes, the non-scammers usually leave messages too.

Reply to mopinko (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 12, 2021, 10:58 AM

Sep 2021

I still get "wrong number" calls from some elderly African American woman in South Carolina sometimes.

She left a message the first time, thinking she'd called a family member, so I called her back to tell her about the mistake since her family didn't get that message.

And it seems to happen with that same elderly woman about every couple months. I honestly think she's doing it on purpose now, and I'll always answer her call after recognizing that phone number again. Then she'll always apologize for "doing it again", but it just seems a little too weird that she's always typing the same wrong digit to end up calling me. I never accuse her of doing that, of course.

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who wishes we still had caller id? [View all] mopinko Sep 2021 OP

Caller ID is meaningless these day. GPV Sep 2021 #1

the closest thing to id now is 1 in 5 scammers get tagged as scammers. mopinko Sep 2021 #5

I just type any unknown numbers into Google. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #2

i dont bother. no message, i assume you are a scammer. mopinko Sep 2021 #3

Yes, the non-scammers usually leave messages too. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #13

Hah! After the second time, I would probably... ret5hd Sep 2021 #15

I had an old white woman calling my number often csziggy Sep 2021 #19

The elderly AA woman is always apologetic and polite. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #20

Yes, if the woman calling me had been polite, we might have gotten to that point csziggy Sep 2021 #22

LOL, what a reaction! Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #24

Oh, lots of the parents calling the wrong number for the school were nearly as bad csziggy Sep 2021 #25

Good grief! I'd probably create a voicemail message... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2021 #26

At the time I'd had the number for my business for ten years csziggy Sep 2021 #27

What happened to caller ID. Fla Dem Sep 2021 #4

i assume they still have it on land lines. mopinko Sep 2021 #6

Well, like you I don't answer my landline or cell if I don't recognize the caller. Fla Dem Sep 2021 #9

I've had too many cases from doctor's offices and insurance to assume they will leave a message csziggy Sep 2021 #23

We do. Jeebo Sep 2021 #7

not really. mopinko Sep 2021 #8

When I had caller ID ... Jeebo Sep 2021 #11

it used to give the name that the number was listed under. mopinko Sep 2021 #12

I have no memory of that. Jeebo Sep 2021 #14

I had to threaten the phone book distributors here to have them STOP bringing books csziggy Sep 2021 #21

I get a lot of calls from grumpyduck Sep 2021 #10

And who would name their child that??? ret5hd Sep 2021 #16

We call him Mr Likely. TxGuitar Sep 2021 #17

Unless I see that it's someone I know, it goes to voicemail EYESORE 9001 Sep 2021 #18

I understand all the reasons phone companies say they can't do this... Phentex Sep 2021 #28

just feels like a useful thing we had that got away. mopinko Sep 2021 #29