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for the last 18 months or so my GF's land line was being phone bombed with collection calls for 2 different persons. Both have the same LAST name as her but very different first name/middle initial.
One company called up to 10 times a day but would only leave a message once every 3 or 4 months. They also sent 2 or 3 letters to OUR address addressed to this other person (returned to sender as the addressee was unknown to us) That finally stopped when we decided to actually answer and tell them to quit calling.
The second one has been intermittent. the company only calls maybe every 2 or 3 months so not really that annoying. have not received a call for 2d person in a good while now.
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Concerning the 2d person/company. We figure this guy has some kind of debt maybe student loans or something.
Today we got 2 calls early in the morning. one at 8:15am and the next at 8:30am (caller ID time). As Saturday is only one of 3 days I can actually sleep in in the morning so when the phone rang it barely registered when the land line rang and someone actually left a message. (99% of all calls that come in to our landline are either scam calls, charity calls, survey calls or misplaced skip-trace collection calls. Neither of us has ANY outstanding debt much less anything that would be in collections).
Later when I got up I listened to the messages. The called ID indicated (after I looked up the incoming number) calls made from a Verizion cellphone from the Indianalopis, Indiana area. both were text-to-landline messages. Both were intended for the 2d person mentioned above.
The first message said something to the effect that <2d person> did not have a job for the past two years but was supposed to be a forklift operator something something.
The second message was a little more "strange". same thing about the job, not paying something and (here is the strange part) he was a woman-beater and not paying something and being a deadbeat.
WAHT the HELL is this????? IF this is a collection call WTF????
anyone else have this happen??????
for the last 18 months or so my GF's land line was being phone bombed with collection calls for 2 different persons. Both have the same LAST name as her but very different first name/middle initial.
One company called up to 10 times a day but would only leave a message once every 3 or 4 months. They also sent 2 or 3 letters to OUR address addressed to this other person (returned to sender as the addressee was unknown to us) That finally stopped when we decided to actually answer and tell them to quit calling.
The second one has been intermittent. the company only calls maybe every 2 or 3 months so not really that annoying. have not received a call for 2d person in a good while now.
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Concerning the 2d person/company. We figure this guy has some kind of debt maybe student loans or something.
Today we got 2 calls early in the morning. one at 8:15am and the next at 8:30am (caller ID time). As Saturday is only one of 3 days I can actually sleep in in the morning so when the phone rang it barely registered when the land line rang and someone actually left a message. (99% of all calls that come in to our landline are either scam calls, charity calls, survey calls or misplaced skip-trace collection calls. Neither of us has ANY outstanding debt much less anything that would be in collections).
Later when I got up I listened to the messages. The called ID indicated (after I looked up the incoming number) calls made from a Verizion cellphone from the Indianalopis, Indiana area. both were text-to-landline messages. Both were intended for the 2d person mentioned above.
The first message said something to the effect that <2d person> did not have a job for the past two years but was supposed to be a forklift operator something something.
The second message was a little more "strange". same thing about the job, not paying something and (here is the strange part) he was a woman-beater and not paying something and being a deadbeat.
WAHT the HELL is this????? IF this is a collection call WTF????
anyone else have this happen??????
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