I bought a pay by month 3rd Generation cellphone. I don’t use it for anything beyond receiving and making a few calls per week. That is OK with me, because I don’t want the expense of a a full 4th Generation phone. Now i am getting calls from numbers I don’t recognize, that go directly into voicemail. When Ii dial back, most of these numbers are not in service. So what is going on? Why do i get such calls? Also, some calls I get from valid numbers still go directly to VM-why?
Here are a couple of guesses:
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you may have your voicemail settings set to go to voicemail after X number of rings. When I call my cell from landline, I can hear 2-3 rings before the cell actually starts making noise. If the VM system is set to 3 rings the phone may go to VM before you get a chance to pick it up. This setting is probably in the settings when you dial in.
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Phone scammers (probably those annoying ones from Cancun ‘selling’ vacation time and cruises). The unknown numbers are likely spoofed from some sort of war-dialler. We keep getting calls where the area code and exchange are the same as our numbers, but the final 4 digits are made up. My wife got a call from an irate lady who accused her of calling and hanging up. She hadn’t called out on the phone all day.