Caller ID shows "Unavailable 1"

I have gotten that caller ID notification as well.  I answered the call and it turned out it was an organization that I have been dealing with.  I guess it could be a feature that phone companies are making available business.  I have not heard or read that this is the case.

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@Jay-Go wrote:

We have been dealing with "Out of Area 1" for too long.  I have tried everything.  Tried the "000-000-0001" and "100-000-0000" thing.  After a few months, they start calling again, non-stop.  AT&T has told me they can't do anything about it - I can cancel my service, if that's what I want.  We recently changed our phone number and within 24 hours, they called again.  The only entities that also had the new number were AT&T and ADT Home Security.  Question:  Anyone else out there also using ADT Home Security and getting these calls?  Wondering if they are linked somehow....

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It doesn't matter which service you have, those numbers cannot be blocked.  My mom has had two different phone providers, neither one AT&T and she has had that number call her as well.

If your phone service is with ATT Uverse, there's a feature that will definitely solve your concern.

If you are using the service, you may sign in to att.com/olam to check out the phone features that will actually block those anonymous callers and forward them to a voicemail box which you can listen to using your Uverse phone. Anyways, those type of callers are most likely to guess numbers and try to fool phone owners.

I'm pretty much sure that telephone companies, not just ATT are doing their best to work out these type of cases but bad people have more ways than them. Well, part of the Uverse phone service feature is to hide your own number too when making an outgoing call. Check out the features online using your ATT member ID.

Goodluck!

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@spiderman0112 wrote:

If your phone service is with ATT Uverse, there's a feature that will definitely solve your concern.

 

If you are using the service, you may sign in to att.com/olam to check out the phone features that will actually block those anonymous callers and forward them to a voicemail box which you can listen to using your Uverse phone. Anyways, those type of callers are most likely to guess numbers and try to fool phone owners.

 

I'm pretty much sure that telephone companies, not just ATT are doing their best to work out these type of cases but bad people have more ways than them. Well, part of the Uverse phone service feature is to hide your own number too when making an outgoing call. Check out the features online using your ATT member ID.

 

Goodluck!

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Unavailable 1 calls cannot be blocked.  Doesn't matter which phone service you have.

AT&T could allow you to block the number by allowing wildcards & incomplete numbers in the blocked number list. They just won't for their own reasons.

I only use call blocking for the 20 worst offenders. I won't pay the absurd AT&T monthly fee to increase that amount.

I use a 3rd party software package, Phone Tray, to manage calls that slip through AT&T's cracks. The only problem is it has to let the phone ring once (to retrieve the caller id data) before it can screen. I just answer on the 2nd ring. However, the "Unidentified 1" source places calls outisde of legal calling hours and the one ring is annoying, particluarly if you are sleeping.

They called me 59 times last year and 16 times so far this year.

AT&T executives should be ashamed of themselves for not allowing their paying customers to selectively block any number they want in any format. If a simple 3rd party program can give that flexibility, surely there is a programmer on the AT&T staff that is almost as smart is a couple of guys up in Canada.

In case AT&T Uverse needs a prod, here's a hint: In the call log, there is a drop down box to the right of each call. Simply add "block this number" to the choices and then block that number even if it has only 1 digit. It really doesn't matter what is passed to AT&T, if they can display it, they can block it. Simply remove the restrictions in the blocked number file that require 7-10 digits. If they can pass a number that doesn't match their own criteria, why can't they allow the individual customer to block it?

We've been getting "1" calls recently from 2 places who's numbers I am surprised wouldn't show up. One is Tulane Medical Center and the other is a state agency that's in the same state we live in. 

You can't block this caller only identified as "1".  ATT caller block feature will only accept a 10 digit number! 

I have that nimber in my Panasonic cordless phone's block call list.  It rings only once, detects the number and hangs up on them.  Works for me!

Please count me as another Uverse customer who would like Uverse to enable me to block calls with the caller ID of "Unavailable 1".  The Call Blocking feature doesn't allow this single-digit number to be added to the block list.  I do have "Anonymous Call Blocking" turned on, but that doesn't stop these calls.

    If, as some suggest, the "Unavailable 1" indicates that the call is coming thru without any CallerID info associated with it, then I'd like to have AT&T add the ability to block all such calls.  A call without any CallerID info, to me, is suspicious for that alone and not a call I want to get.

     Meanwhile, could AT&T at least please provide a thorough explanation why it's not resolved this issue after a couple years of complaints on this thread.  When numerouse customers are expressing this concern and asking for help preventing these repeated, annoying calls, why hasn't AT&T fixed it?  What has been done/tried/failed, etc?   

     Thanks in advance for any new info