Do You Get A Lot of Calls with No Answer When You Say Hello?

Lately I seem to be getting a lot of calls from different numbers where I answer but there is nobody their?

Does this happen to a lot of people?

Telemarketers use autodialers that dial a bunch of phone numbers until they find a live person. If there's a big gap before someone comes on line then that's probably what it is.

Additionally, there are auto-dialers that exist solely to classify telephone numbers. Telemarketers want to know if a number is a fax machine, an answering machine, a business or a residence where someone has actually picked up the call.

In order to minimize this situation, either get caller I.D. on your phone and don't answer any incoming calls unless you 100% recognize the number or...if you don't have caller I.D. simply DO NOT answer any incoming calls and let everything go to voice mail. Then you can call back people you want to speak with.

My phone service also has a feature wherein I can authorize specific numbers as having access to dial into my number. If a call comes in from a number NOT on the authorized list then it goes directly to voice mail and I never hear the phone ring. Be advised this has some drawbacks...If someone you know is having an emergency or otherwise urgently needs to reach you and for whatever reason is using a pay phone or some other number that is not on your authorized list well, you're not going to get that call.

Also looking for male/female voices, age (elderly are easy marks), accents (foreigners are easy marks) and perhaps other factors.

Change your voice up a bit and see if they bite.

Old female with Asian accent is gold to them.

Herrow?

Oh, that's me. I just like to hear your voice sometimes.

I'll dial the number right back and get a recording that says the number is not in service.

Stalker Girl Wrote:
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You are sexy...yum yum

Sometimes there really is no one there. A machine is calling and recording when someone is likely to answer the phone or not. This information is then sold along with your number to telemarketers and their ilk so they know what time to program their own machines to call your number. They should all eat shit and die.

Happens alllllll day at work. Has been going on for two weeks. No caller ID, so I have to answer. I can usually tell when I start to speak that it's "the thing" since my voice sounds robotic.

i read this post last night, and today at work I get calls from two 877 bullshit numbers...

Hello Hello? Wrote:
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> Do You Get A Lot of Calls with No Answer When You
> Say Hello?



eesh does that. I don't know how, but he'll call you from various different numbers, often very early in the morning or very late at night. I never answer. Psychopath.

that's so eesh Wrote:
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> eesh does that. I don't know how, but he'll call
> you from various different numbers, often very
> early in the morning or very late at night. I
> never answer. Psychopath.


i have the same problem with him

It's part of the collection for the national biometric database. License plates, facial images, retinal scans, voice, etc.

I have a tone generator hooked up to a set of powerful speakers right next to the phone. I collect numbers off the caller ID without answering the calls, look them up in the internet "phone-pest lists" and if they are "legitimate scam-pests or telemarketers" the next time I see that number repeatedly pop up on an incoming call, I put on the protective earmuffs, turn on the sound generator at a high MGhz and decible rate, pick up the phone and blast away. That usually results in the elimination of my number from the operations centers being manned by humans. All repeated telepest calls that continue after one or more blast experiences are automated robo-calls, so this modus operandi will not work on a machine generated call unless you hang on and wait for the live person behind the robocaller to pick up after you hold the line open for a minute or two. With those that are completely automated you can complain to the FCC officially as robo-callers are illegal and then log them into the collection sites on line that catalogue scam callers and tele-pests.

No. Unlike the OP, I have friends. When I say hello, they answer.