I don't share your opinion and it doesn't answer my question.Not answering the phone when there is no caller ID does not help avoid scam phone calls, so it is a bit pointless.
Why does it matter to you why they have that policy? I thought the reply from "huskerdu said" was very apt and also true.I don't share your opinion and it doesn't answer my question.
Absolutely not true.Not answering the phone when there is no caller ID does not help avoid scam phone calls, so it is a bit pointless.
Because they don't want people calling them back.My question is why would any organization choose to withhold their number from outgoing calls?
The vast majority of scam calls now use number spoofing, with a popular one for the last few months to use a number that closely resembles your own. So if your aim is to avoid scam callers, you'd be more likely to avoid them if you didn't answer calls where the number is provided.I don't share your opinion and it doesn't answer my question.
This has no relevance to my post and doesn't answer my original question or the follow ons I asked to clarify.I have a landline with dinosaur phone. I have no idea who is calling me until I answer the phone. The scammers are immediately obvious so I choose to entertain myself and play along or just hang up.
This has no relevance to my post and doesn't answer my original question or the follow ons I asked to clarify.Because they don't want people calling them back.
I know a hospital consultant who sometimes has to call patients from his mobile number but doesn't want calls or texts back so he hides ID.
It's an example of a person who works in a hospital who blocks his outgoing caller ID, and why.This has no relevance to my post
I ring specific numbers because those direct lines are staffed by people who can deal with my query directly, without having to ring the "switch-board" and be transferred. Some switch-boards allow callers to dial the extension they want if they know it.The vast majority of scam calls now use number spoofing, with a popular one for the last few months to use a number that closely resembles your own. So if your aim is to avoid scam callers, you'd be more likely to avoid them if you didn't answer calls where the number is provided.
Perhaps to get closer to answering the question though, organisations like the HSE will block outgoing number identification is because outgoing calls will use dedicated lines they don't want calls coming in on. It's better have people ring the numbers that are staffed to correctly direct incoming calls than to have people just try phone departments directly.
Your answers are all speculation with no relevant information in response to my query.It's an example of a person who works in a hospital who blocks his outgoing caller ID, and why.
I can only speculate that lots of other people who work in hospitals don't want to have to field inbound calls from patients either.
I ring specific numbers because those direct lines are staffed by people who can deal with my query directly, without having to ring the "switch-board" and be transferred. Some switch-boards allow callers to dial the extension they want if they know it.
So in my case, the caller-id is important for me as a service user. That should be all that's important to the HSE as a service provider.
Like a lot of the world, I don't take such calls, for reasons that are well-publicized.
Not answering the phone when there is no caller ID does not help avoid scam phone calls, so it is a bit pointless.
I don't share your opinion and it doesn't answer my question.
Great, you ring the correct numbers that are staffed for incoming calls.I ring specific numbers because those direct lines are staffed by people who can deal with my query directly, without having to ring the "switch-board" and be transferred. Some switch-boards allow callers to dial the extension they want if they know it.
So in my case, the caller-id is important for me as a service user. That should be all that's important to the HSE as a service provider.
My issue isn't phoning any organization or parts thereof, my issue is with accepting incoming calls with no caller-id displayed from anyone. I already said that IME it is the policy in certain parts of the HSE.In answer to your question - Calls from James hospital do not have the caller ID blocked
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I agree that having access to the correct phone number in the hospital is inmportant.
THe Vincents hospital website has a full directoiry
And my appointment card for Vincents has a fuil list of the phone numbers for all out patients department on the back whch is very handy
All the more reason for them to send the caller id as the number is not the default I have in my contacts.The people ringing you from within the departments will often be calling you from different lines, ones that are not staffed for incoming calls.
I never said anything about scams or scammers in my OP. Why jump to the assumption that's why I don't accept calls from unidentified callers?Loads of organisations and individuals have blocked caller ID.
Most phone based scammers use a real number.
Not answering the phone when there is no caller ID does not help avoid scam phone calls, so it is a bit pointless.
Scam phone calls are obvious within seconds, I just hang up
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