Yesterday my neighbor came to my house with his phone and told me I had a call. It turned out to be a debt collector looking for my mother-in-law (who has never lived with us but gave out our address and number instead of hers.) The collector said that since no one answered the phone at our house, (I didn't get the phone in time) they were calling the neighbors to try to get ahold of her.
Now, I'm furious with my mil for dragging us into this. And if I knew where she lived, believe me, I wouldn't have hesitated to give that debt collector her address and number. (My husband and I have had to deal with our own debt collectors when she used his SSN and ran up credit cards to the tune of $15K.)
But as I got to thinking about it a little more, is it legal or even ethical for debt collectors to harass a person's neighbors while trying to find them? Seems kind of shady to me, but then again, lots of shady things seem to be legal these days.
2007-06-05
06:18:24
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