I don't have a landline. If there is a call to my cellphone, and it isn't someone in my directory ... and I'm not expecting a call ... I disconnect the call before it goes to voicemail.
Seriously, on my cell phone if I don't recognize the caller ID, I do not answer....99.9% of the time it is something to avoid. If they need to get me a msg... no problem leave a MSG
Most of the time.There are a few places that call and the ID says unknown caller and it really is a business I needed to speak with. One was a clinic who hung up on twice. Oops.
We have Nomorobo on our landline and mobile lines. That gets rid of a lot of nuisance callers. If some numbers that I don't know get through .. I usually don't pick up and just wait for them to leave a message. If they don't, then it probably wasn't anything important anyway.
I will answer once in a while and say "I was great until you called." It the sam place twice a day and I am going to be VERY rude...things I can't say in this forum.
I do now, since a business I signed up with calls me constantly. 6 calls just today. They call from strange numbers or a number that shows their name. This has been going on for months. Now I've had enough. I will be logging the calls daily and in a couple of months I'll file a restraining order against them. They want me to sign up for a service they offer. I have declined more than once but they won't stop hounding me. I even called the main number and complained, the calls keep coming.
I google the number. Most of the time it is not found. All the other calls come from the grade school in the next town, so I call and tell them to remove the number from their records.