Steps to make your phone not ring for unknown numbers, good or bad ideas?

Spam calls are calls that are probably not in your contacts. In today’s newsletter, I’ll be damned if all three items were of interest to me and we’ll start with this.

While the article talks about blocking unknown callers, I hesitate doing that because of the fact that people may call that I don’t have a contact for and they are legitimate calls.

Kim says thtat if they are legitimate, they’ll leave a message. That’s well and good, but someone called yesterday and I didn’t answer it because Skype was being innodated with calls. While I answered one, it seemed innocent enough. They wanted to know if I owned EMHS (which is the shortened name of our new project) and then asked if I need development services. Problem with that call is that it took a minute (maybe less) for them to even answer when I said hello. Gave me a toll-free number if i wanted services. That’s nice.

But if you’re a hospital, say, calling about my family let’s say, you’re not probably going to leave a message and wait for a phone call. You’re going to want to talk to me and get whatever you need asked then. Back to the call yesterday on my phone, I didn’t see the voice mail till this morning as I opened the phone app and there popped up the voice mail. Not cool!

So, I take the second option, if the number is unknown to me, I don’t answer it. Skype’s number is more my business number, so I will answer there if I’m available to do so. Voice mail is also on that line, although they use a generic greeting instead of a personalized greeting.

There might be something else here that might interest you about this article. So, please read How to silence spam calls without downloading any apps to see how you want to handle these unknown callers.

I told you what I like about the article and don’t like, maybe it could be a topic on a show of some sort. Let’s see what happens.