Lately, I've started getting calls from real people's numbers in my area. I never answer and they never leave a message so I'm guessing some lowlife is spoofing numbers around my physical location.

I got a call from a senior health care specialist on a recorded line....who immediately want to know if I could hear him OK. He heard a click.

Elizabeth, you reminded me. I called a governmental place a couple of weeks ago, and she said she couldn't hear me. When I said, "I'm sorry. Did you say you can't hear me?", she replied yes. And hung up. Really? So how did you hear me ask the question.

I got a "local" call the other day and Caller ID said it was a person I sort of know with a local number so of course I answered. It wasn't her.

I had my own name and number come up on CallerID. I didn't answer it but called the phone company who claimed they never heard of such a thing. A few weeks later I read that telemarketers had hacked into the CallerID system and were doing that to lots of people.

I've had my own phone number show up on my caller ID too. Naturally I don't answer it.

Fun2be, I also get numbers that look like they could be a familiar town number or cell number. With my cell, all my contacts will come up with a name, so of course, I know which to ignore.

My house phone doesn't always put a name with a number. Since not that many people call the house phone, I ignore that too and let it go to message.

I'm a throwback to an earlier age. I have a landline but no caller ID. I do have an answering macine. (Remember those?) When my phone rings and I answer it, I wait two beats and if no one says anything I hang up. No one has complained that I hung up on them. If I don't answer the answerinfg machine will, and I've yet to have an unwanted caller leave a message.

There's something to be said for not having all the bells and whistles on a phone.

I'm with maxmom, landline without caller ID. I also have an answering machine. So I guess that there still are a couple of old fuddy-duddies out there.

land line. answering machine. caller ID in case it's someone I want to talk to.

It's not me; LOL!

I like the CallerID coming up on the TV screen. I don't even have to get up to check it.

Maxmom96 & Jim, I never had caller ID until recently. I almost never received any calls on my landline except from people I knew. Suddenly, about 18 months ago, I started getting all kinds of random calls. I had to sign up for caller ID so I could ignore all of the junk calls. I've always had an unlisted number and I never give it to anybody except friends and family, so I don't know how it became public. It annoys me so much. I use the feature that repels all anonymous calls automatically, but that won't work on these new calls that have a spoofed ID attached.

Well I was talking to my friend in Hollywood, Fl (hurricane Irma remember) just last night and we were disconnected, I try to call her back on my cell phone and I got a voicemail message of a different person with her first name.

It was so strange, I was able to reach her after two attempts and we both had a good laugh because the voicemail of the other person was so different than the person I know. :)

litasart, I hope that was just crossed wires from the storm and not a bigger problem.

I have a landline, caller ID and answering machine. It shows CID on the computer. I blocked myself. Why would I want to talk to myself anyway? Lots of local numbers coming in and they are registered to people so they're using a new theory to scam. But I give them a call or two to leave a message. No message = block. Caller Id is one of the best investments I made.

As far as how you're getting calls on unlisted line, there's a LOT of ways it happens. One is war dialers, another is if you call a toll-free number or call a business that sells it's caller databases, if you ever give your number on signing up for something, buying something on the internet and more.

I have a landline, two cell phones, caller ID and an answering machine. I much prefer the machine than having to dial a number for my messages. My landline rings once and nothing else if it's a scammer. When it rings more than once I check the caller ID. Sometimes I answer, sometimes I don't. Did yesterday to find it was a man who sold equipment to someone who hacked our Discover card. He got suspicious because it was mailed to Texas. Then we discovered three days of unauthorized purchase which Discover took off and Fed exed us a new card.

I hate the spoofed calls,especially, when it is my own number. My landline is still in my husband's name. He passed away 5 yrs ago. Its spooky when you look at the id and see his name there.

I'm to the point now that I'm just tired of unblocking and blocking these numbers. I have 50 blocked so far. Now when we get a call on our landline, we just press the answer and hang up at the same time. If our landline wasn't so darn cheap ($8.00) a month, we'd get rid of it, but it's included in our Comcast package.