Calls won't stop despite telling them "wrong number"
Date: Mon, 06/28/2010 - 14:23
This may be a collection agency calling you for unpaid debt. Wha
This may be a collection agency calling you for unpaid debt. What you can do is get the name of the company, and send them a certified cease and desist letter. Mention in the letter that this debt does not belong to you. If they fail to comply to your request, file a complaint with the Federal Trading Commission, and your State Attorney General.
You will get the sample cease and desist letter at 1 . Write a letter of your own using this sample letter. You will have to remove the part Quote:
It is my personal choice to deal with the original creditor and not the collection agencies. |
I had a phone put in about 3 yrs ago and immediately started get
I had a phone put in about 3 yrs ago and immediately started getting phone calls from collection agencys about debts for previous owner of phone number. I tried everything to stop the calls. When I got one debt collection agency to stop they would sell the account and number to another collection agency and the whole thing would start all over from square one. After one whole year I was still getting the calls so I had the phone took out. A year later I got another phone put in and the same day it was installed the calls started again. (I'm not the person they are looking for, I don't owe anyone anything) The phone that twc gave me puts a message on the screen that says "you missed 2 calls". If I push one of the buttons it tells me the number of the caller with caller ID. If it's someone I know I call back. Everyone that knows me knows about this so if someone wants to call me they just ring my phone and wait until I call back.I never answere the phone, and I don't use voice mail or the answere machine. If I tell the debt collection agency that they got the wrong number I will be increasing the chance that they contact the proper person and they might get paid and stay in business longer, and they will still call me. They should call the wrong number forever until they go out of business.
Dont hold your breath...they will NEVER go out of business. It i
Dont hold your breath...they will NEVER go out of business. It is machine dialing and they just keep dialing while the collectors keep talking.Simply send them a cease and desist letter.
Quote:Originally Posted by SOAPLADYDont hold your breath...they
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Originally Posted by SOAPLADY Dont hold your breath...they will NEVER go out of business. It is machine dialing and they just keep dialing while the collectors keep talking.Simply send them a cease and desist letter. |
that does'nt work, because once I send them this letter only the one I send the letter to has to stop calling me. But then they sell the account with the phone number to someone else and that company will start calling me.
Although I have done the letter, it is easier and cheaper just to contact the collection company and explain they got the wrong guy. They always take my number off the system and stop calling. Until they sell the debt to the next company and then we start all over.
It is 3 pm, and I've gotten 8 calls from collection companys already today. Had I called all these fools up today and talked to each one I would have spent 3 or 4 hours on the phone.
If you really owed them the money, then I could see a cease and desist letter. Or if one letter covered the whole bunch of them.
I really dont owe them I got this number about a week ago as someone ran up the charges and then had his phone number changed.
In the mean time while they are calling the wrong number and nobody is home, they are not finding the guy they are looking for and therefore not making any money. If they get mad and sue the guy they are looking for I don't care because they sue the person, not the phone number.
I don't like these people, I hope they never find the guy and collect.The longer they call me, the longer before they ever contact whoever it they are really after. Unless they get paid per call instead of per collection.
I know it doesn't cost anything to call me. But it is not very profitable, calling the wrong guy.
I wouldn't pay someone elses debt, I would get rid of the phone first.