Voice mail from a number I've blocked

I'm confused. I think that the normal behavior is that when a blocked number telephones you, it is automatically sent to voicemail.

I have AT&T and just tried this. Indeed that is the case. The Visual Voicemail places the messages into a category called "Blocked Messages".

Presumably one does not want the blocked caller to easily figure out that you have blocked them. So from their perspective they get the fairly normal behavior of being sent directly to voicemail.

Here's an article on the subject. There is no mention of not going to voicemail here.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5845

UPDATE - Oh, now I see the line at the bottom of the HT5845 article saying voice and text messages will not be accessible. Sorry for the confusion.

Message was edited by: sberman

As the thread above explains, it's trivial for anyone to block their caller ID when telephoning you.

So enjoy whatever you end up with when you "jump ship". By the way, if you do happen to change your phone number during that process, you will likely solve your issue.

As the thread's original subject states: Why am I still getting voice mail from a number I blocked?" How does your response, "It's trivial for anyone to block their caller ID when calling you," address the stated purpose of the thread? How do you think it is helpful inviting me to leave with an undertone of attitude. Your only solution is to spend the time and money to change my phone number? Why are you even making these comments on this thread? The question remains: why is a number that I blocked allowed access and control over my voicemail?

"Why am I still getting voice mail from a number I blocked?"

Because once they block their caller ID info, they're effectively not calling from that number anymore.

I'm having the same problem, getting calls from a school about closings and special events. Some parent must have mistyped their phone number. After blocking the number, I still get calls but nothing shows up in the Recent list from that number any longer. The calls go directly to voice mail. While listening to voicemail I can retrieve which number the call comes from, implying that it arrived without blocking their caller id. Sounds like a bug to me. iPhone 4, IOS 7.

Exactly the same problem here. I am in the UK, and within 1 hour of buying my new contract iPhone, I got a junk call. Every single day since they have phoned, with the same pre-recorded message.

A quick google search of the company involved has revealed they are running a scam where they want you to phone them and complain about the calls. This phone call is at premium rates, and that is where they make their money.

Please note however, at NO POINT have they tried to hide their number or caller I.D. I blocked their number the second day of owning the phone, but now I have this daily chore of dealing with a voicemail that I have no indication of where it is coming from, only to find out it is these scammers.

Several times now I have missed genuine voicemail as I assumed it was junk, finding out later from frantic text messages that the call was from a known contact.

Honestly this is making my life a misery. This is without question a bug/oversight in the iOS software. If iOS can take control of numbers to block calls, I cannot understand why it does not extend to voicemail.

At this point I am looking at 2 choices; either a change in phone numbers in the hope I escape them, or contract cancellation and moving to another phone brand. This cannot go on.

Your "problem" has nothing to do with Apple, iOS, iPhones, or any other phone for that matter. Report the calls to the proper authorities.

The confusion here seems to be call blocking vs blocked numbers.

Call blocking is when on your phone, you have chosen to 'Block this Caller', you will no longer receive calls from this number as the phone will essentially reject the call immediately, unfortunately, if your settings with your telco / carrier then pass that call back to voicemail, this is something you will need to speak to your carrier about.

Blocked numbers are when a person masks their phone number so the person they dial cannot tell who is calling. When they call your phone it will come up as 'Unknown Number' or something similar. Your phone has NO IDEA who the incoming call is from and therefore cannot tell if it is meant to be blocked or not. You can get some apps on Android that block ALL unknown numbers, but this would block probably a lot of important calls too!

Once again, the phone just rejects a call from someone that you have placed in the Block this Caller list. Once it has been blocked, it falls back to the carrier settings to then do whatever with the rejected call.

You go right ahead and "report" the 10-12 calls per day I get from numbers that DO SHOW CALLER ID, but they are FORGED! If you dial them back, you hear a recording saying they are not a working number. They come from a computer somewhere half-way around the world and insert a phone number with software from a list complited by more software to find disconnected numbers. They are UNTRACEABLE and the government: FCC, etc. cannot trace them. AT&T or any other carrier, could use a quick 'handshaking' routine like that used by ALL EMAIL servers, to be sure a call is from a real number before connecting it to my phone, but they are TOO GREEDY to allow the tiny bit of bandwidth to do something they USED TO DO.

Furthermore, these calls play a recording, they don't have a human at the other end. The recording is a sales pitch that fills up my voicemail every day, because I've chosen "block number" on the little apple "i" with the circle in the call log. This IS something the iPhone software could control, if Apple wanted to. But the carriers want this traffic, so they can sell $5/month add-on cost to block 30 calls you must continually update.

AT&T will do nothing. NOBODY ELSE CAN do anything, because the IP address of that CRIMINAL phone call (all calls made by machines are now illegal if a human isn't there when you answer) is only known to AT&T if they look in their cache before it disappears, usually 24hrs or less.

Oh, and since you are giving completely uninformed advice, why don't you do like AT&T and tell people to get on the Do Not Call List, because you KNOW those criminals respect THAT when they get their FREE COPY from the US Government of GOOD WORKING NUMBERS who don't want to be called!!!!!!!

I don't want to change my number, but don't know how to stop these stupid "lower your student loan" calls. I know AT&T could stop these criminals, if they wanted to. But they are criminals, themselves, and made Congress pass a law exempting them from class-action lawsuit. How corrupt is that?

Great thanks

telling me they shouldn't be able to doesn't stop the fact that I keep getting my voicemail filled up everyday by the number I blocked and it's driving me crazy

So why not simply ask AT&T to block this number for you? Then you won't get voicemails from it.

The number doesn't come up on missed calls, so you have to play the message to get to the number!