Anyone gets phone calls confirming your name...then hangs up?

I get a lot of calls from numbers that aren't in my address book, I ignore them.

Do you owe any companies money?? may it be power, phone or insurance ect?

Hi,

Can anyone put my mind at rest that everything was ok after this happened to them? Same thing happened to me yesterday on my mobile phone - got all kinds of possibilities going round in my head. Did anyone have fraud happen to them afterwards?

Thanks

We gave up our land line last year and now just each have cell phones. If I get a call with a number I don't recognize I just don't answer - I figure if it's someone I know they will leave a message. Drives my wife crazy - she can't stand having a phone ring and not pick it up...

Kasrielle wrote in post #14872169
We gave up our land line last year and now just each have cell phones. If I get a call with a number I don't recognize I just don't answer - I figure if it's someone I know they will leave a message. Drives my wife crazy - she can't stand having a phone ring and not pick it up...

If your phones are Android based, get the "Call Control" app. Your wife will never hear calls like that ring again. That should make it less frustrating for her.

Nicksan, time to move. At a minimum make sure you move gets you to a new state, ideally it will be one that does not border the state you are currently in. Hawaii is nice, I'd recommend it. As soon as you get settled in your new location, start exploring some countries that might work should this happen again. A friend of mine here is trying get me to move to Ecuador, he says it's paradise.

back in high school, in the 70's, the phone rings, I answer it. A girl asks for Mary, I say sorry wrong number. there is a pause and the girl asks is this Steve? I say huh...she says, is this Steve....I say yes, she says I thought so....and hangs up. To this day I would kill to find out who that was.

kyliecakes wrote in post #14870069
Hi,

Can anyone put my mind at rest that everything was ok after this happened to them? Same thing happened to me yesterday on my mobile phone - got all kinds of possibilities going round in my head. Did anyone have fraud happen to them afterwards?

Thanks

THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME TOO on my cell! Did you ever have any problems afterward? Could it have just been a telemarketer like someone else said? I don't know if I should change my mobile number or not. I'm not reading about the follow-up to you and others that report the similar thing happening to them. Anyone have any more info or advice?

I don't answer my phone unless I recognize the number

It happened to me at work a few weeks back and it was a bit alarming - I've been meaning to follow up by doing credit checks and making sure it wasn't something to do with ID theft. The number listed was "112" on my call display.

My information is listed publicly due to work, but regardless it was a strange call..!

Look out the for accompanying black helicopters in the night.

I have never gotten a call like the ones mentioned here, but if there is a number on the caller I D, you can actually enter the number into the google search bar, and usually, in the first few links, there is one for a reporting website that other people who have also had that number call them from, and sometimes a fairly solid answer as to who the caller was.....

This type of call is very common here in the UK and although annoying, is not quite as sinister as you might think. Call centres, (often outside the country to get round UK legislation) buy phone/address lists from various sources and call, firstly establishing that the number is live and secondly that the person on their list is still at that address. They then sell this information to companies who will use it to call and sell you things - for example energy, insurance, timeshare, accident claims services, etc.

Of course, if there are skeletons in your closet...

Not the same type of call but I got one (twice) on the home phone that asked in a automated voice "if you are expecting a call from eBay press one, as I had nothing going on at eBay I hung up and have no idea what it was all about

I just got one today.. AT work. Very weird they said" Hi can I speak to so and so.." and I answered "yes this is she"... and they hung up. I am still bothered, I tried to call back by *69 and it sais that extension isn't available. Weird stuff like that drives me frieggin crazy. UGH. It must be a bill collector or maybe a company trying to verify you work there. Not sure, my mind is just going a mile a minute.