2007-10-19 09:16:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Send them a letter that instructs them not to call you anymore. See http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/
2007-10-19 09:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The next time a collector calls, politely ask to speak to a supervisor. When you get the supervisor on the phone, tell them they have the wrong number and ask that your number be annotated in the file as a incorrect number. The debt is being sold to other collection agencies. Somewhere your phone number got in the file, maybe from a bad skip trace. Everytime a new collection agency gets that file, they will start calling you again. If you can convince the supervisor to mark you number as a bad number, the calls will stop. Sending a cease and desist letter really won't help. Even if it works for the collection agency who has the debt now, the calls would start all over when the debt was sold again.
2016-05-23 19:25:41 · answer #2 · answered by antoinette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This happened to me when I first moved to a new town.
If this is a fairly new number for you, consider getting a new one. Most local phone companies will allow you to change your phone number once within the first 90-days or so for this exact reason.
You can send in a written request to the collections agency, but if the previous owner of your number was a true credit-criminal, you can expect to be getting calls from fifteen to twenty different collectors. I was getting calls at 4am and just did not feel like writing a seperate request to each and every collector. The phone company told me they offered the free one-time change and I took them up on it.
2007-10-19 09:34:32 · answer #3 · answered by a_man_could_stand 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to get them to stop calling, I had this problem, I told them that it was a new number for me and that the person they were looking for no longer used that number, it worked for awhile, then they started calling again. Even if you get a new number, it can still happen because most numbers have already been used by someone else.
2007-10-19 11:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jim J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had that problem and i tried talking to themHad number to long to change it for free or want to change it .I phone police about what to do.They said next time they phoned tell them you reported them and if happened again police would visit .End of calls
2007-10-19 15:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by our choice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tom Mabe (a standup comedian) has a good way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_PjRXV5l8
2007-10-19 09:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by Trollbuster 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋