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Can you block a private caller who won't leave a message?

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jane7166:
All these phone number topics has made me wonder about people who block their number from caller ID.

I don't particularly think it's rude to use this feature but we have a relative who has called 2 or 3 times a day for the past month or so and won't leave a message!  I do think that is rude.  We think it's him because he has always comes up on caller ID as Private Caller when we accidentally answer the phone without checking, something that last happened in October and at least it was DH who picked up, not me.  I don't know who else would be doing this day after day.

Anyhow, we don't pick up if the screen shows Private Caller because he's a boor who just goes on and on about how wonderful his kid is and the latest write-up in the paper about the kid.  The kid is pretty smart and the kid is very nice but relative is one of those people who will drone on and on, has strong opinions about everything and will try to change your mind if you don't agree with his opinions.  Who needs it?

He invited himself and his family over last year and didn't stop talking the whole 5 hours they were here.  He has been insisting that we come and visit them in city 3 hours away.   

I wish we could block his number.  One of these days we are accidentally going to pick up and have to deal with him. 

Twik:
Private Caller is more likely to be telemarketers, I'd assume.

KitKat:
Oddly enough, my display usually gives a number/company name for telemarketers.  OTOH, I know it is MIL/FIL when it comes up private.*


Of course their number is displayed with the phrase private caller.

emcee:
You can pay a fee to reject all blocked number calls.  Then people who don't publish their caller ID have to dial *82 before calling you to unblock their number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_call_rejection

ETA: the wiki says that it's probably free for landlines, but I would call your phone company anyway just to make sure.

Hushabye:
I was just getting ready to say that I didn't think you could block "anonymous" or "private" or "blocked" callers, but apparently you can.  That's cool.

Do keep in mind, though, should you choose to do something like that, that more than calls from more than one government entity show up as "blocked" or "anonymous", and blocking all calls would block those as well, should you have a reason to be in contact with them (if you know about it now).  In this situation, I would consider it a fair trade-off.

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