Unknown numbers - what would you do?

[Anonymous]

If the contact is canceled, I eventually delete the people from my contacts so that my phone book remains clear.

Now I have three calls and messages from numbers I don't know. One message only contained "hello". What would you do?

[ChicoFromThe305]

I just don't answer to anything, they are most likely scammers scrolling through numbers looking for working numbers, when they see activity, they know that number is active and they will keep bothering you.

[Asker]

Two numbers look familiar to me. I also change my numbers every two years. It always takes a while for the databases to become scammer marketers. I haven't had any experience with scammers yet. What's more, they probably use foreign numbers. And these are numbers from my country.

[ChicoFromThe305]

You know there's apps where you can hide your current number with a fake one and got people up? Let's also not forget most websites sell your information to other companies, you sign that away in the terms and conditions.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Hit people up*

[Belgie]

I have enough space for every person in the world if I wished and since I know how to use search and contacts the idea of deleting names to keep things clean is nuts to me. I don't have time for that shit.

[rachel776]

Ignore if they don't want to identify themselves, but I have all of my previous contacts backed up anyway.

[MaazHussain]

If you're curious then you can check those numbers on whatsapp, if they are using whatsapp and your contact number is saved in their list, you might see their profile picture and can recognize them. Another way is to search that number in Truecaller app. They have a very large database of phone numbers. Or simply you can ignore them.

[NathanDavis]

if it is important... they do know how to find me

unknown numbers just go to the bin

[LiamJHayden]

Do a reverse search. If it does not come up, I call them from a FAX number (some clients are really old school) to see who it is.