Phone Abuse

Despite Do-Not-Call, one can get a lot of unwanted phone calls. Questionable charities calling to raise money, political calls during election cycles, wrong number callers looking for a similiar number. Now it seems that one can get repeated collection phone calls for persons who apparently have no connection to one's phone number or address! They call repeatedly expecting to talk to their debtors using just any phone number, regardless as to whom it is listed! In the case of one annoying collection agency, I reported the problem to my state attorney general who wrote and warned the company to desist, telling them that the debtors they were seeking, did not live at my address, and to stop calling my number which the debtors never owned! When I first moved to my present address, I was receiving mail for numerous different persons, most of whom the management did not recall ever living at this address! So, I guess that one can get phone calls for people the same way, for persons never having had any connection to the number or the address! |