Calls from "Unavailable" or "Private"

Called cell today at 10:59 AM, left no message. CID simply said "unavailable".

Windows flag and R key brings up the Run dialog box.

Do you think Sam has been hanging around for five years to get an answer to "What does the Windows-R key do?"

It's a [***] to block those, hospitals, medical clinics and a bunch of government numbers come out as PRIVATE CALLER here, but thankfully my landline cordless phones allow to block/unblock those with just 2 buttons pressed. But also a lot of the pests add in some name that is usually the phone number again, so it opens the door, so I have to be proactive or else I'll miss really important calls like hospital exam appointments, happened a few times. I wish they didn't anonymize their phones over there, I mean, it's added costs, I know that when I had a cell phone, I had to pay 25 bucks to have it be confidential back in 2005.

Unfortunately, I can't block those because almost everything health related, appointments, doctors calling you, hospital calling you, it all shows up as "Unknown Call", they should change this. It allows in 90% of the crap calls I get nowadays.

Maybe put the good numbers in your contacts list?

Call at 11:25 AM today; CID said "unavailable"

The " unavailable " calls I get on my cell don't even register on " Call History " at my phone co. It must be a VOIP call.

Do not answer calls from" Unavailable" or Private caller unless you know that number would be my advise.

Hopefully "A" will stop back after 11 years to see your advice.

Just got a robot call from "Unavailable" that said it was from the "Legal Dept".  This is on my company office phone.  Kind of funny, because I just had that number changed because of all the spam calls I was getting.  No idea what that was about or who the heck they could have been calling (probably phishing).

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Kind of funny, because I just had that number changed because of all the spam calls I was getting.

Not really and it amazes me that you thought that by changing your number you would stop getting calls when in reality:

New Number
All phone numbers are recycled.  No one gets rid of a number without a good reason since it a pain in the butt to notify everyone.  So now you know why the former owners got rid of that number.

This is a number provided by IT for a major oil company I work for and it was always a company number.  It is not my personal number, fyi.  I answer it, because it could be a business call.

If the number isn't yours & was "provided by IT for a major oil company I work for", how were you able to change it?