Would you ring back an unknown number or ignore?

Hi mimpi! I used to get unknown calls every night here before and they just didn't stop calling! They wouldn't talk too either and would just keep calling. My Husband and his friend called the number and the person on the other end said "What, foreigner?" so they reported this number to the police and it stopped! I don't ring back myself, but if it is a number that calls often, my Husband will call and ask them what they want and blast them if they get rude. They always stop after that! lol. It's happened a few times now, but the one where he called the police was the worse.

If it was in the middle of the night, I probably wouldn't even look to see if the number was one I knew or not. I would just pick up the phone and answer it without thinking. Calls in the middle of the night are usually wrong numbers or something important. If it's a wrong number, and you answer it, they know it's a wrong number and don't call again. If it is something important, it may be someone you know calling from someplace other than the number you have listed for them. However, having said that, if it was someone I knew, and they called in the middle of the night to be bailed out of jail, I would probably just let them sit there overnight, go back to sleep, and take care of it when I got up and got moving the next day. Nice, aren't I?*L*

If i hear the call the first time i would pick it up and answer it. If there is no response from the other end i would disconnect and if this perisits to a second call or the next day, i would keep the phone silent or ignore for a few times. After some time i suppose it gets testing on one's patience as i would not be able to keep the phone silent or switched off and would then call the person back. I've had this past but happened on a couple of day only at different times in the middle of the night. I called the person back to figure out it was an ex colleague who had my number on top of his directory and his child was playing with the phone. I wonder though if one can do a call barring of certain numbers. I think certain phones have them.

I would ignore it if I didn't know the number and they don't leave a message. It obviously isn't somehting important if they don't leave a message, if it gets too annoying I may answer it to see what they wanted and why they called at the same time everyday.

Hello mimpi. If someone calls me from an unknown number, and i miss the call, he might as well call me again as i will not ring back unknown numbers from unknown, or even known people - i guess i like my privacy. It's not that i ignore them completely, sometimes i will answer and sometimes i won't.

Hey mimpi! If I got a call from someone that I didn't know, an I have at a very late hour at the same time every night I would answer it and find out who they were and what they wanted. It did happen to me and it turned out to be a Spanish woman who didn't speak English and she had the wrong number! I wasn't able to get through to her to well because she called a few more times during the day! I don't know too much Spanish but I think I must have finally gotten through to her because she finally stopped calling eventually! It took a pretty long time though!

I will definitely ignore that number.I have already up to my neck in calls day in and day out.If anyone is so desperate he will catch me anyhow.I need not undergo the trouble of wasting my time.Moreover we hardly get any anonymous call that will be of great advantage to us.

If I get persistent calls, I will definitely call the caller to know what is the exact reason for he/she calling me. However, if it is once or twice, I may not bother. It has happened with me many times, when I received a missed call from an unknown number and later on when I called back to the unknown caller, only to be told that he/she dialled my number by mistake or it was number of a 'call centre'. Now, I do not call back, thinking, that whosoever need to talk to me, he/she will call me again or call my another number.

Hi mimpi dear! How are you? With regards to your question if I will ring back an unknown number..I think i wouldn't ring it back. I will just ignore it and maybe for a couple of days, I will turn off the ringer at those same odd hours..that is if, my curiosity wouldn't get the best of me! lol... Take care and blessings to you always! lovelots..faith

Hi dear Well, the situation u r telling that some one call u at odd hours of night for many days, then for sure i will call him/her back to ask whats the problem!!!!!!! and if necessary will give him/her a peace of mind tooo While other than that if i get some miscall from unknown number i ignore it, but if it comes when i put my phone on silent, and its 2 or 3 calls then i will revert back. take care

I usually call back when I get a call from an unknown number. And if the caller is just harassing me I would try to take some action against that person by contacting the concerned authorities. This has happened to me some time back and I took the help of the local police to trace the number and warn the person.

There is this call i get almost always between 1am to 3am. I never answer it because i do not know the number. But one time i was startled by the ringing because i was already asleep i answered and i never got an answer but someone is at the end of the line, just listening. So now, i just ignore it and sometimes i turn my phone off.

If they only did it once, I'd probably ignore it. But if they did it every night at the same hour, I would be interested to find out who it is. If the number shows up, then I would call them back. If they continued, I may be would report it to the police.

I would ignore if I did'nt know who it was. In the UK we have a service where You press"1471" and it tells You the number of the last person who called You. If I don't recognise the number of a friend or if the person has hidden thier number then they can't want to speak to me that urgently.

i would text the number for its identity.if the identity is of an unknownperson maybe i will ignore the calls or keep it in a silent mode.such perverts are not unknown to me.(i mean they harrass females mentally).sometimes,if the number calls during the day,i put on the loudspeaker and give it to my kids.

I would probably try to answer the call at the first time itself and if the person repeat it again with no response then I will try to call back and know who the person is and why he called. I will try to repeat the call for two to three times and if there is no responses then I will put the call into my screening number in mobile since the person doesn't responded.

I used to ring them back because my daughter when she was a teen had some friends that would get high & wasted and call here at all hours. I work 2nd shift and have to get up early and it would make me so angry. My daughter would sleep right thru it but I'd wake up. Oh yes...I would call them back and remind them to look at their clocks before calling here. I had a rule that after 10pm during the week...don't call unless it is an emergency. If it happened every nite...yes...I would call back. If it was once and I did not recognize the number, I'd assume it was a mistake and ignore it.

i never call back any numbers i don't know or private numbers that call my cellphone. i have a machine so if its important they can leave a message and ill call them back. so i just ignore those calls

if the person is calling at the same time every night then I would probably pick it up. it is better than wasting my money to call back. and most often I would not even hear the ring coz i am a sound sleeper

No. I do not answer unknown numbers and I dont call them back either, and I get alot of them that are marked unavailable and a couple that had been wrong numbers but that had only been a couple so they must have figured it out...LOL because they never called back.