| These days, caller ID would almost be a waste of | | | | How to STOP Annoying Unknown Calls |
| money were it not free for almost all cell phones. | | | | Since many of these calls originate from the same |
| House phones are still a different story, but the real | | | | sources, and because they're illegal, there is a specific, |
| problem is bigger. Fact is, the very privacy standards | | | | highly effective method for dealing with them. |
| which keep our cellphones safe from the prying eyes | | | | 1. Identify the caller |
| of telemarketers and pranksters are actually working | | | | 2. Report them to the authoritiesor |
| in reverse - against us! | | | | 3. If it turns out you actually wanted that call, add their |
| The Problem of Unknown Calls | | | | name and number to your contacts |
| We're suppose to be safe from strangers wasting our | | | | So, that sounds easy, but the key to this entire |
| time, money, and mental health by placing obnoxious | | | | process has always been identifying them. And thats |
| calls to our cell phones. However, certain industry | | | | were modern technology comes in. We now have |
| insiders do have access to our information, and | | | | access to a new type of database which brings us |
| regularly hit us up with ambiguously named calls such | | | | the names, addresses, backgrounds, and more for |
| as 'unknown call', 'inbound call', 'cellular call', 'private call' | | | | 98% of all cell phone owners in seconds. These |
| (this one's gotta be the most annoying - a private call | | | | 'reverse phone directories' only charge a small fee for |
| to my phone), 'out of area', etc. It makes the entire | | | | unlimited access to the information - and it turns out to |
| reason for having caller I.D. obsolete. We're often in the | | | | be a fraction of the cost and time spent waiting for |
| middle of working, entertainment, conversing, thinking, or | | | | the old ways of tracing a number. You either had to |
| any other hundreds of more important things when | | | | hire a private investigator, or install a phone trap. |
| these calls come - and we usually have no choice but | | | | Now we can just search for the number, get their |
| to answer in case it really is important. | | | | phone company, and call them up! |