Call from "Unknown Name;" "Private Number."

Have had two of these calls to my cell. There is no way to research them. Even worse, no way to block them. The previous ones I got said "United States" and these turned out to be calls from Social Security. Even so, I never trust when you can't see the number.

Answering machines can be set to not pick up until after a certain number of rings. Many of them can be set to not pick up until after the 4th and 5th rings. Others can be set higher.

It usually pays to do a little research before spouting off in anger.

LMAO... I was thinking the same thi

For some unknown reasons in the province of Quebec most if not all government agencies are allowed to use "unknown number and/caller". So that unknown caller might be you’re mother's social care nurse or a social worker or even somebody from the Tax services. In Quebec, government rules everything!

I just got a call from Private Number on my cell phone but I didn't even know till just a few minutes ago

If the calls are Legit they should leave messages. Most of them dont leave messages

Just got a call at work from a hidden number using the caller ID 'private number'. Thinking it was a customer I picked up and what do I hear? The stupid, and all too familiar and very annoying I might add, script "Hi, Id like to speak with the person responsible for the phone bill". Ugh....its bad enough that these clowns call at all but to hide their number in order to trick people into picking up the phone because you dont know whos calling is beyond low. I truly wish these scammers would get a real job because they're not fooling anyone. If they were TRULY a rep with AT&T or even an authorized outside agent working WITH AT&T, they would ask for the person by name and not "person in charge of the phone bill".

I've been getting a call a day from Monday (it is now Wednesday) from an unknown number. The only exception was Tuesday when I got two. I got one voice mail that was silent, two warped breaths out, and then a barely audible TV in the background before it hung up. They seem to be managing to call when I get home and before anyone else gets there so I'm alone when i receive the calls. Its really freaking me out.

You have a good reason to be concerned. You can block the calls. My next suggestion is to get a reason to not arrive home earlier than anyone else. Stop at the local library, linger in a store a little longer reading the labels on packages.

If it is someone trying to stalk you, though, blocking the phone calls won't be enough.
If the calls continue, keep this in mind :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_caller_identification

Malicious caller identification, activated by Vertical service code Star codes *57, is an upcharge fee subscription service offered by telephone company providers which, when dialed immediately after a malicious call, records meta-data for police follow-up. Remember to file a police report for each use - law enforcement will only act on the trace once a formal police report is filed in regard to the call.

Malicious caller identification facility, also called malicious call trace or caller activated malicious call trace, when subscribed or enabled, works by allowing a phone call recipient to mark or flag the preceding phone call connection as malicious (i.e. harassing, threatening, obscene, etc.) The phone system will then automatically trace the call by flagging station to station billing and routing data including start and end times. The call trace is not dependent upon call duration (as envisioned in dramatic movie plots) and will record all meta-data regardless of source conditions - even if the call was made from an unlisted number, a payphone or a number with caller identification disabled. To protect privacy the resulting trace data is only made available to law enforcement.

I get "Private Number" calls on a regular basis (like almost every other day).  I can set my Panasonic phone system to automatically reject these calls w/o it going against my allowed 250 blocked calls.  The phone doesn't ring.  But, I do wonder if it's the same "private number" all the time.

I have Majic Jack internet phone and just started getting these calls (unknown 1).  Once I picked up the phone not knowing who was calling and nobody was on the other end.   I decided to go online to mymajicjack.com to check my call log.  Its listed as 1 on the call log but its listed as an outgoing call, not incoming.  I am going to dig deeper into this issue; hopefully to find an end to these calls.  And majic jack numbers are not listed calls, nobody can get my number from 411.

Question...  if a phone number is reported on this site will the caller be notiified and will your name be revealed?

No, your name will not appear and the caller will not be notified of your report.  Please do not reveal your real name or phone number on here.

Your question should inform the process improvements needed on 800Notes. The instruction heading each number thread says to "report unwanted calls". It does not say where reports go or link to any help page explaining such or how a traditional internet comment board works. That such a format has existed for 38 years does not mean that everyone understands it.

Nothing submitted to 800Notes is "reported" directly to anyone outside the confines of the website servers. This site does not relay comments or user information to anyone -- not government agencies, not consumer watchdogs, and not the sources of phone calls. This site does not function like a text message portal to any one person, therefore again your phone numbers and personal identifiers are not shared as metadata.

This is why demands to "stop calling me", "stop their calls", "block this number from my phone", "cancel my subscription", "send me my prize", "please call back", and many others are seen as utterly absurd to those with even modest experience. These communications are not private and are available to the masses, if a person happens to spot them in a web search or directly loads a web page. Any data you consider private will never be seen unless you disclose those data in your submission.

You can think of it as pinning a paper note to a corkboard in the lobby of your bank, post office, grocery or hardware store, or place of worship. You make a choice to share information. Others make a choice to pause and read it. The only differences are that readers may number in the thousands, and copies of what you pin up may end up almost anywhere. The physical "bulletin board" concept is in fact what inspired the first online shared message systems. A Wired article from early 2010 succinctly explains this origin.

Feb. 16, 1978: Bulletin Board Goes Electronic