February 14, 2020 12:13 pm
I don't answer unknown numbers. I click connect, and then mute. The natural response is "hello? Hello?" If I recognize the voice, I chime in. This number calls. No nothing. It sits and records muted audio for 2 minutes and 51 seconds.
This tells me that this number is simply the fishing line to see if it connects to something, and to see what it connects to. Your number is then collected most likely, and sold to telemarketers (maybe not bad people; just trying to feed their families), or worse yet, scams.
To be clear, while I was muted, I could hear what was on the other end, and there was nothing. Either noise-cancelling phones, a room with no air-flow, or it was a robot recording what was connecting. Happens every now and then to me.
I a'int giving up my number though.