Unknown Phone Calls is this legal?

Yup they do it all the time and if its before 9 pm and after 9 am they can do that. you need to put your phones onthe national do not call list! I have but they still get thru sometimes I never anser them!

It seems like telephone solicitation companies, assume that the bulk of consumers are away during the day working to earn their money, and are at home in the evening, so that is when I seem to receive the bulk of those calls. And no, I NEVER answer an "Unknown" or "Blocked" telephone number on my cell, as every call costs me money. In fact, unless it is urgent, and I know it is urgent, I don't answer any calls on my cell. I will take down the number, look it up on the internet, see who it is, if I know them, I will call on my land line for free. If I don't know them, I figure they can leave a message as to what they are calling about. If they don't, too bad for them and I assume it is telephone sales.

I would think it would be ok. If you knew you were an annoying company or a telemarketer would you want people to know what number you were calling from? It's just a phone call and you don't have to do business with them or like me don't answer it if you can't tell who it's from.

I have had a few of them myself and I feel the same...where did they get my number and why are they allowed to call me! I think in the US it's very legal..in fact all cell numbers went public within the last couple of weeks.

It is legal for charities, telemarketers, etc. to call you unless you have your number on the Do Not Call list. If you do, then charities CAN still call you unless you ask them to take you off of their personal do not call list. I worked for the Vietnam Veterans of America for quite some time, and it was amazing how many people were nasty when it was either a) their choice to be put on the list or b) their choice to donate to us and therefore be put on the list. You have to ask to be taken off in these cases. One thing I learned while working for this charity is that it is NOT legal to call a home BEFORE 9:00 A.M. or AFTER 9:00 P.M. Any time between is legal, and if you are in a different time zone, charity or not, they must respect your time zone. I would highly suggest answering these calls in order to request to be taken off their list. For years I ignored the calls, only to have them continue. I began to pick up each and every time, and most of the time people were calling about a debt (my husband and I have zero debt) that belonged to someone we'd never heard of. We have lived in this house for about two years now, so at the time, they had the previous owner's name and information. Now we're "lucky" if we get one call per week since we've cleared up most of the confusion. Otherwise, go online to some consumer website and report the phone numbers and the time they call to places like Rip Off Report, donotcall.gov, and whocalledme.com (or something like that!). Let OTHERS know the issues you are having so you can help them, too.

Unfortunately, it seems this is a common occurance. It is also legal. I do not answer any call that is marked unknown or private regardless of time of day or night. Yes it has happened to me in the past.

i received lots of unknown calls in my mobile phone as well where the numbers of the callers do not appear... but i can't say that they are illegal because i can't stop them... the only thing i can do is not to pick up the calls whenever i see unknown numbers appear on my phone... that's it... take care and have a nice day...

I've received calls too with my cell written 'unknown'. Since I was not around to receive the call it was left as a 'missed call'. The unknown caller has not called back since. I wouldn't dare to answer 'unknown callers' as it might be from the debt collector's company. As long as we have a cell phone then we are exposed to many unwanted, unknown or prank callers. The legality of these callers have not been tested in the court of law.

I have had this happen. I look up the number on a reverse directory before I return the call--I do not answer any number I'm not familiar with because I pay by the minute. It's not illegal unless you enter your cell phone number on the Do Not Call List at donotcall.gov. If you haven't done so, do that and in 30-60 days you should see the incidents decrease or cease.

Hello Anora, Sadly, I have only one answer to these kind of Calls. these are either Survey or Tele-Marketing Calls. I didn't think you guys would be aware of companies calling using an unknown number? DNC is supposed to be in place but i think it depends on the state? am not sure. this is profoundly why i hate the Out bound Agent position. you can have it complain though and have ur phone company put you in a DNC list from unknown calls, if that's possible.

I do not believe it is illegal to call someone with the unknown feature as most creditors do it thinking that the person will not be wise to knowing it is a collector and or a solicitor. I believe it is not as you cannot block your number to any 800, 888, 866 number as they pay a special fee to assure that anyone hiding their numbers shows up on their screens. I am one that if you know me you will find me and I do not hide from the world so if anyone, ever calls me unknown I do not answer. So if anyone has the need to hide well then I do not need to speak to them. It got so ridiculous that I downloaded to my black berry the call blocker and put unknown caller in my block list, this way anytime any calls come to my phone with unknown I get a beep and sound and they go to my voice mail, so I added a no ringer silent on mine so I never hear them. Funny thing is that it has to be solicitors because they never wait for the voice mail and hang up. Also as an FYI, on rare occasions when I am outside of range the phone will still pick up the calls so even if the person is on my contact list they may come up as unknown number. I know this because it happen twice, when my daughter called me and I was at Target, the second time I was in an elevator.

It isn't illegal to do this. Your phone displays unknown because other people have paid for privacy. This way, you cannot call them back or locate them using reverse phone look up. I can give you two solutions: 1. simply take the battery out of your phone. 2. Spend some extra money and get a block feature where it only accepts calls if the number matches the number in your address book. However, there are friends that may not be in your address books so their calls will be blocked. What I suggest is to get the other feature where others cannot call in if they wish to remain private. At least you can call them back.