Unwanted Calls

[xstitcher]

A few months ago I noticed I was getting mysterious calls from the USA in the middle of the night.......don’t know anyone there......and I blocked them. My. iPhone is blocked for incoming calls at night. They’ve stopped now but why do people do this?

[johnk]

Have any of your friends had there phone stolen in the States. The only way the callers can get any attention is to be a nuisance they've little else in their lives.

[Gizmonster]

Just curious - did you answer any of the calls?? If so, what did the caller say.
I'm only asking as I had something similar a while ago - kept getting phone calls in the early hours of the morning (I can't remember where the calls were from - might even have been UK).
Anyway I managed to catch one of the calls, so I answered it. The guy asked for someone I'd never heard of; I told him he'd got the wrong number and I was never bothered again.
It might just be a genuine mistake .... although it could also be a prank .... you won't know until you answer it (assuming you haven't answered it already).

[Hopkirk]

Have you considered turning your phone off at night?

[xstitcher]

I didn’t answer any of them and my phone is off at night as I stated in my question. No phones of friends stolen in the USA. I think I had three all together and none since then. Besides blocking incoming calls at night except for family, I never take an unknown number.

[Hopkirk]

Well if your phone is switched off at night, how do you know you are getting calls?

[woofgang]

because when you turn an iphone on it tellsyou about missed calls

[Hopkirk]

Ah, I see. My phone doesn't do that.