3 Phone Calls Burglars Make Before They Break Into Your House
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Published Sep 27, 2026, 4:00 PM · 2w ago
Ed Brannigan
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Your phone rings in the middle of a weekday. Nobody speaks, or somebody asks for a name you don't recognise, apologises and hangs up. You forget it in thirty seconds.
It was probably nothing. And on a small number of occasions, it was the first step in finding out whether your house was empty.
Let me be honest first. Most strange calls are scammers, robocalls and genuine wrong numbers, not burglars. The reason to know the pattern is that the same three habits protect you against all of them at once.
In this video: the call nobody answers, and what the silence tells the caller. The call asking for somebody who doesn't live there. And the call that sounds official, including why the number on your screen proves nothing, since caller ID can be faked. Plus the voicemail greeting almost nobody thinks about, and why social media is every one of these calls broadcast at once.
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💬 Have you had a run of silent calls or wrong numbers?
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