If there is one thing that creeps me out, it is Unknown Callers that do not say anything when you actually do pick up the phone. I have recently fallen in to the habit of picking up on Unknown Callers after 6pm. As many of you know, I usually do not pick up on Unknown Callers at all.
Today I had two of those calls; one at 6am, which I did not pick up, and one at around 5:30pm, which I did pick up. The first one was just to damn early to pick up, and the second was just as I expected; another silent one. I said hello, but nothing was said back, just a lot of background noise.
I absolutely hate calls like this. Not to mention that they freak me out. I do not play well with being called all the time with no good reason. If it happens again I am going to call my provider and ask them to give me details on the caller, or, if they don’t know, get them to find out who the heck it is and if necessary will take action.
I don’t get a whole lot of phone calls like that because I only have caller ID at work but I can imagine why it would be aggravating. It reminds me of how, when we used AOL back in the day, it would disconnect and the phone would randomly ring once because of it. Very weird.
Dunno if it helps, but these calls are usually telemarketers. Telemarketing computers are programmed to dial from a list of numbers, and once a person picks up, the computer will route your call to an available human telemarketer. Sometimes this takes a few seconds (or doesn’t work at all), which results in the dead air that you hear.
(Cool blog btw. Found you on AfterEllen.
Yeah I figured that out, but even with the ‘dead air’ I heard I’d usually hear people in the background, so I knew it was that, but some just hang up when I pick up, or they let it ring once and then stop. Those are the ones I’m worried about.
And thanks, great to have you find me hahah