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Originally Posted by Bill14564
If you have the number for your sister, parents, doctor, or spouse in your contacts then your phone will ring. The only time it will not ring is if the number is not already in your contacts (and even then it will ring if you recently called that same number).
The only time I've had a problem with the "silence unknown callers" feature is when I call a main number for a business and the return call is from a cell phone or another line in the business. Since the number calling me isn't in my contacts and isn't the number I recently called it is directed to voicemail and I need to start over.
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My health insurance is FloridaBlue. They use remote employees with something similar to burner phones, each with unique phone numbers that aren't affiliated with FloridaBlue. So the caller ID on those comes in as unknown, just the phone number, mostly from a Florida area code (but not always).
MY phone number has a Connecticut area code. But there are only a few people in Connecticut that I have need to communicate with anymore, since I stopped living there three years ago and most of my friends live elsewhere now, with new phone numbers.
So if a call comes in from a Connecticut phone number and I don't recognize it, I don't take the call. There are a couple of other area codes I recognize as being spam, so I don't take those calls either. All the other ones that I don't recognize, I answer "Digame" (pronounced DEE-ga-Mey) which is Spanish for "Talk to me" and the common phone answering phrase if you're in Puerto Rico.
If it's someone who sincerely needs to speak with ME, personally, and not merely "potential victim #499723, then they'll identify themselves and ask for me by name. If not, their number gets blocked.
I don't engage in conversation with callers until I know they're people I /would/ have any reason to talk to. The guy from Pakistan who says my computer password is compromised and is about to be shut down - is not someone I /would/ have any reason to talk to.