So I'm receiving phone calls looking for a total stranger for over a year now...

[Schadenfreude]

Sue them. Make them give you $500. SImple - I'm sure they'll quickly stop calling you to solicit things.

 

[DeadByDawn]

We used to be one number off from the cable company. We'd get calls at 1am if cable tv went down. It sucked, we had to change our number.

 

[Cleaner]

I agree with M4H. I had the same problem with Huntington Bank's Collection Dept. calling me constantly for someone named the same as me. They kept calling I kept telling them they had the wrong number. After the 5 call in 1 week I said 'That's it give me you god d@mn manager.' I then proceeded to rip her a new one. I haven't gotten a call since. People in call centers are IDIOTS. That's the ONLY job they could get besides Taco Bell and TB fired them last week. They are incompetent at their job and you can't talk to them. It doesn't sink in. You need to talk to the MANAGER. They at least have some sembalance of intelligence.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: Anonemous

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I get creditor calls all the time for some one who must have had the phone number before us. Jenny Boden or something. No matter how many times I tell them I have no idea who that is they keep calling. I'm gonna tell them she's dead next time...no, I'm gonna tell them I killed her and she's in my freezer in pieces. Maybe that'll freak them out enough to finally stop calling.

Jenny Boden, if you're out there pay for your fvcking bills!

seriously. hmmm but I wouldn't want the cops showing up at my door though.

give em the local cops #//lol

 

[Bryophyte]

Tell them that you do not know this person, and "Do not call this number again." The message you seem to be giving out with your voicemail message is that you know this person but they no longer live with you. Make it understood that you do not know the person, that they might or might not have had the phone number before you did, but they obviously no longer do.

Problem is, people who have problems with creditors will frequently lie to them and say "Don't know this person" when they are indeed that person. You can't prove that you aren't that person to someone on the phone, but you CAN tell them not to phone you in the future ("Put this number on your do-not-call list) because it's within your legal rights to make creditors stop contacting you by phone, even if you owe them money, and they know it.