Sorry it's a little ' off topic '. I'm getting at least six calls a day on my landline with ' Private Caller'.....displaying. Listening closely, the line is silent. No tone at all. I let it dial out once to see what would happen.......Nothing. Now I just hang up. Ideas anyone?
I've been told those calls were automated calls to determine if a resident was home for future calls. We get them often.
I wondered if they were just error calls - the telephone spam system just calls almost continuously and if an answered call gets "voice" it switches through to a human who can try to scam/spam you. I figured sometimes the queue overflows.
I have been told that too, I suspected it was true as the thing hung up too damn fast for it to be a human. This might be done to avoid the call charge registering too - while still providing the data they need. Also gets more calls in per hour.
I would hate (for example) if this was a result of the automated dialling software getting a bug and went doing this.
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They probably don't do this as it costs them money if the call doesn't get an available operator. Even if each call only costs them a cent (or part thereof) it would add up if it happened a lot and these days costs are cut everywhere possible.
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