A Tip or two on answering the phone

You get a telephone call that looks like it could be from someone you know – as it shows the same area code as yours or a number you kinda’ think you remember.

Should you answer the call?

In either case, probably not. These may be folks fishing for your data and information, which they can use against your best interest or attempts to sell you something you may not want, nor need. And despite what the phone manufacturers and companies say, the apps on phones don’t perform as claimed. Privacy, silenced calls, blocked senders, etc., are tied to other apps that do not work properly when these apps are applied.

There’s a reason for it: The phone companies are making a profit on the calls you receive, as well as those you originate.

But if you don’t answer the phone, sometimes, you get fussed at by a friend or a business acquaintance.

There is an answer:

Only answer your phone when the incoming call is from someone in your Contacts list or it has a caller’s name associated with it.

When you receive a call from a name associated with a phone number in your Contact’s list the name and number shows on your phone. It also works this way on all of your outgoing calls when you associate your name with your telephone number. Your name
and number will display to whomever you make a phone call.

Of course, IF you’re making a lot of crank calls yourself, it may not be such a good idea. But it is something, however, that every business seeking additional customers should do.  And people who want to talk with their friends and relatives.

Business firms, medical, financial and professional offices and services spend thousands – sometimes millions – of dollars to get their names (advertising) in front of people. But they fail to take advantage of this relatively free advertising venue, which is a service to their customers and / or clients.

Why?

Or why not? Open your phone, go to Settings, then Phone. and enter your name and number.

In this age of increasing spam, phishing, ransom and malware attacks, you and your clients and customers not only want to know but need to know who is calling them.

Like a growing number of other people, IF you call and I can’t answer at the that time, and you don’t leave a message, I’m not wasting my time to call you back.

The best option for cybersecurity is just don’t cooperate with those firms that don’t want you to know who is calling.

 

Why would anyone want to talk to an unknown person at an unknown telephone number for an unknown reason?

In this digital age, the old bromide that “curiosity is a sign of intelligence” is set aside by the one reminding us that “curiosity killed the cat.”

Since voters allowed elected politicians to exchange the Private Enterprise System for State Capitalism (the partnership between Big Business and Big Government), customers, clients and taxpayers are treated as resources, instead of the firms and government being a resource for the customer or client – or the taxpayer.

 

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