Answering the phone is the single biggest thing you can do to increase the value of your phone number among scammers: Literally, from fractions of a cent to dollars. In many cases, lots of scam calls may be the result of scammers using bots to test the list your number keeps appearing on to see if people will answer, call/text back, or speak to a live person. And with each step, your number becomes more and more valuable.
That shouldn’t have happened for a number of reasons. The creditor should have left a message. When unable to reach the borrower by phone they should have followed up by mail. And the borrower should have noticed that they didn’t pay their loan for 4 months.
Wow. Do you miss many important calls? Just for doctors alone that would be a problem. They are hard enough to reach. I don’t want to be playing telephone tag with them. I want to answer when they call. But most have multiple phone lines so one might be on my contact list but the other 5 aren’t.
I normally do, but I let these go a few times, and I just got curious.
No, I use a web portal for ALL my (3) doctors messages, notifications, test reports, etc, (Methodist Hospital system) and I get notifications by text and email. Never miss a beat!
My entire medical system of doctors, clinics and hospital has its own exchange number. So if I see that exchange in the phone number calling me, I answer. Otherwise, unknown numbers go to voicemail.
I request a credit report quarterly and always look to see that I don't have any unexpected new accounts, and that all of my accounts are current. That's another way to find out. But I agree that the creditor should have been more diligent than calling and not leaving a message.
This isn't always correct..for example DH was in a hospital with a large heart clinic...so someone calls my cell, it doesn't identify as blank blank hospital, it goes to voicemail, I listen to voicemail and they leave general message this so and so from heart clinic please return my call...you return their call and it goes straight to voice mail.. rinse and repeat. So a lot of legit callers will leave a message that says call me back. Its easier and more polite to answer the first call. For example DHs pacemaker clinic never identifies itself in the call number. My phone sometimes rings and displays the message "spam number" those are the only calls I outright refuse to answer.
And to be fair, legit numbers sometimes come up as spam. Throughout the pandemic, at our urgent care we were having patients wait in their cars rather than the waiting room and we called them when it was their turn. But the clinic number came up as spam so patients wouldn't answer, or they just didn’t answer numbers not in their contacts which ours wasn’t of course. Many times a tech had to go out and find them in the parking lot. That’s the downside of people ignoring unknown numbers.
Man, I remember those days. I recall needing to wait in a parking garage to get a covid test. I had to wait for the phone to ring to pull into the one stall where they did the test. Sure enough, I would get a spam call and answer it. That must have happened every other time.
Just to be clear, my post was supposed to say "at our urgent care" not "burgers care".
Heh, heh, I was thinking "boogers" care and it made me recall getting all those Covid tests where they plumbed the very depths of your soul - I mean sinuses.
We were all very happy at urgent care when we switched from those to the ones that swirled just inside your nostril. Our patients were very happy too.Heh, heh, I was thinking "boogers" care and it made me recall getting all those Covid tests where they plumbed the very depths of your soul - I mean sinuses.
Everyone else did those swirl tests, but our main hospital required the "in depth" test. I always had a sinus headache for an hour or two following each test. AND they cost a lot of money (mostly paid by Medicare IIRC.)
This is what I always suspected but I’ve never seen it stated as well as you have.
Heh, heh, "How much extra if I swear at you before I hang up?"
