[Porsche-O-Phile]

All too common, and annoying. The simple, zero-cost solution is to never answer calls from any number you don't immediately recognize or which is in your contacts "whitelist". Simple, easy, foolproof.

The new tactic of "voice mail drops" without ringing the phone at all are a lot more frustrating since it takes longer and more effort to delete those messages. This is starting to catch on and it's only a matter of time before VM becomes even more useless than it presently is (one of my pet peeves involves VMs saying "call me back", another similar one is text messages that say "OK" - like no shyte sherlock - once I see I miss a call from you I know what to do, and if I see my text is received I assume you understood it unless you tell me otherwise - sheesh!) Time-wasting nonsense all of it...