WTH? The phone just rang about 15 minutes ago. Scared the crap out of my husband and I, as our parents aren’t getting any younger. By the time I got to it they had hung up. I check the caller ID; ‘private name, private number’.
You have got to be kidding! Now I’m up, pissed off, and can’t sleep. Nice.
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Banana Phone!!!
LOL
It was probably just some drunk trying to make a booty call.
They’ve got your name. They’ve got your number. They’ve got a line on you…! 
Im getting that on my cellphone. its driving me nuts.
The call is coming from inside the house!
I hate that. I’d get call blocking, except my parent’s landline shows up like that (there number is also unpublished). Dad own’s a garage and long ago got tired of people looking up his home number. Blocking their (ie my mother’s) calls would cause more problems than it would solve though. Fortunatly I have an answering machine so I can screen my calls. What really bugs me that every election I get those fucking robocalls; private number, and no way to get put on a DNC list. :mad:
What are you complaining about? Since I switched to AT&T a few months ago I get an average of about two wrong numbers almost every day. Some just hang up when I answer. Some ask for people (various different people) that I have never heard of. Some beg me to buzz them into the building (I do not live in a building into which people can be buzzed), and over the last couple of weeks I have been getting the same robo-call almost every other day, asking some guy I have never heard of to urgently call back. The robot leaves messages on my machine too.
I am on the “do not call” list, so I don’t get too many sales calls - a few soliciting money for police charities and the like - but the volume of wrong numbers is absurd. It wasn’t like this when I got my phone through the cable company (but my present company can’t provide me with an appropriate international calling plan, so I’m stuck).
The one that creeped me out came up, DO NOT ANSWER on the caller ID. I googled the number and it’s some kind of sales thing!
DO NOT ANSWER!
On my cell phone (I don’t have a landline) such calls show up as “UNKNOWN.”
Like I’m really gonna take a call from “UNKNOWN.”
When they wake me up though I get pretty pissed off at Mr./Ms. Unknown.
Here’s what immediately came to mind for me, because it’s a situation I deal with pretty often at work:
A lot of the local pediatricians use a triage center service. Some of the nurses work from their homes, especially the late-night ones. They use call block for obvious reasons-- because if a parent needs to speak with the nurse again, they need to call the “official” number that is ALWAYS answered, not call the nurse’s home number back (where, in 8-10 hours, the nurse will be trying to sleep; where the nurse’s other family members answer the phone and don’t want to hear medical questions; and so on). A lot of doctors use the call-block feature for similar reasons, along with reasons like “I’m at a friend’s house and don’t want a patient to have THEIR number.” (I suspect there might be occasional incidents of “I don’t want patients knowing I’m at such-and-such establishment” too.)
Of course, the parents who call the triage line are asked what number they would like to be called back on, and if it’s 3am and they’ve been up with a screaming baby for 18 hours, they may get their own number wrong. The wrong number they give will, of course, belong to someone else-- like you.
For some reason I don’t understand, sometimes calls from registered numbers usually come as “unknown”. This usually happens with my parents. It doesn’t have the same ringtone, it shows up as “unknown”, but it is them.
I have had others tell me the same thing happens sometimes when I call. At least in my case, I’ve figured out why I show up as unknown. Again, for reasons I don’t understand, if I return a call by my voice mail (when the machine gives the option of calling back the number that left the message), it shows up in the other person’s phone as “unknown”.
So yea, I do answer unknowns.