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I used to do skip tracing and always removed a number from my case file if it was a wrong party.
I helped my daughter several times when she got such calls. Identifying myself as a previous skip tracer, I established a rapport with the collector and asked if there was anything we could do to help.
The woman who used to have my phone # is a real winner - not only did I get collection calls, but also calls from the Wake County jail, and some Federal prison in Georgia! It gives you a choice to accept the calls, and for a while I didn't. Eventually I did answer and told the prisoner that the # had changed hands! No more prison calls after that!
I like the idea of sending the letter. That may be my next recourse. Now - my daughter told the caller this morning that we killed them and buried in them in the yard in order to assume their identities. I'm sure that at least got an odd look on the other end.
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Lol! I think we'll have to try telling all the collectors Marlin is dead! My kids have fun answering in Spanish, Chinese, and jibberish just trying to annoy the callers, but I'm tired of the calls; we tell them they have the wrong number, but they still call. Maybe if he's "dead" they'll stop calling.
This happens to me ALL the time. I guess my name is somewhat common among people who let things to to collection (one collector once told me they are just trying any number with that name). Unfortunately it happens on my work line. The best is when I get the recordings that tell me that if I've listened up to a certain point I am confirming I'm the person they are looking for - and I hear this on my voice mail. Good times!
I used to get these with regularity on both home and cell phones (looking for different people), but they've trailed off over the past couple of years...seems like the collectors got the idea. One time we got an automated call telling us our son had had unexcused absences at school for five days in a row or something like that. No mention of the kid's name, but ours aren't in school yet, so hopefully we won't be tossed in the slammer.
My recent annoyance is a woman who thinks that my email address is hers. She keeps signing me up for email newsletters and website accounts, and I get things like her order confirmations from Macys.com.
My recent annoyance is a woman who thinks that my email address is hers. She keeps signing me up for email newsletters and website accounts, and I get things like her order confirmations from Macys.com.
I have that issue too - with several different people. Thank God one of them finally graduated because I got all of her senior year emails. I've been invited to several family reunions, and received many confirmations of travel and firearm purchases.
Once a month I get an emailed bill from a gym in Florida from a woman that put her email as dgmayor instead of djmayor. Ironically, it's in the town I grew up in.
My wife gets collector calls once every few months looking for her old roommate that she has barely had any contact with in over 7 years. The funny thing is, this woman has since moved to China and teaches english to Chinese people. When I try to explain that, I don't think they believe me.
Someone used my wife's email address while car shopping in Dallas Tx, and now we get daily emails from every Chevrolet and GM dealer in the greater Dallas area. Unsubscribing helps eliminate a few.
I really love when I get URGENT texts from people...at the wrong number of course. One poor woman texted someone at my number, and seemed to be panicking about getting their presentation together, at Staples, and had detailed instructions for several people, she was running late, etc. I bet her day went well! Sometimes I'll text hem back later, giving them the good news. Sometimes I'll have fun with them.
Someone used my wife's email address while car shopping in Dallas Tx, and now we get daily emails from every Chevrolet and GM dealer in the greater Dallas area. Unsubscribing helps eliminate a few.
Tell me about it -- in 2004, I signed up for first initial - middle initial - last name @ gmail.com. A seven character username. And, my last name's "Davis."
You can imagine the crap I get in my inbox. Literally a dozen-plus wrong spam-type messages a day (from people who signed up on e-commerce sites with the wrong address) and four to five wrong address emails a week.
Actually, *I* once accidentally sent an email to first initial - last name @ gmail.com (omitted my middle initial.) That poor soul has a script that autoresponds if a correspondent is not in their address book and informs them their mail is going to be filtered unless they go through a "please add me" process.
Oh, and I guess because my email address has mayor in it, I somehow years ago got on some mailing list of city mayors lol..
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