About two weeks with this new phone(not a smartphone) and new number. Second time we’ve changed the number. This one is worse than the first. Wife is Tearing a at&t habibi a new ass right now.

My wife has been getting calls and texts for a Monica for about 2 years now about owing this or that to various companies.
She just looks at her phone and says "dammit Monica"

Driving me nuts. One ass hole insisted I was raymundo some schit and I owe 12 grand.

Get an air horn, when they call you you blast em with it.

I have had my number about 7 years and I still get calls with collectors looking for David Pham...….at some point it might just be easier to pay his bills....

That went on with my phone for years, with getting one or two every day. It has finally gotten to the point that I have not had any in a few years. After talking to each collector and telling them I was not who they were looking for and if they kept calling me they would never get their money they would take my number off of the call list. But within a short time that debt is sold to another collection agency and it started all over again. It appears the sales cost of the debt had gotten so cheap they could not sell it any more and the calls have stopped.

Awhile back I started getting calls for a local veterinarian's office. Many callers refused to believe when I told them they had the wrong number and would dial me multiple times. I even called the vet's office to let them know about the problem. The calls kept coming. Got fed up and started confirming appointment times. Didn't take long for the calls to stop. All good since then.

I was getting dunned by voice mail for medical bills owed by somebody named "Antonio" for several weeks. I finally called the 800 number they provided for "setting up a payment plan" and demanded to speak to their attorney. After I made about 15 callbacks like that at all hours of the day and night, they quit calling. I guess they got tired of hearing me say "I'm going to be paying all my bills with your money after the lawsuit!" Telephone harassment is a 2-way street!
Jerry

I like this.

For about a decade I got those calls looking for the man who lived here before I bought the house. No matter how many times I told them he doesn't live here anymore, every few months they'd call again looking for him, sometimes leaving threatening messages about legal action they were going to take if the matter wasn't settled.

Tell the bill collectors "Just put it on my credit card, I'll pay it next month...."

I kept gettin' one ." Is Billy there." No I said just like yesterday, wrong number. Finally several days later a call for Billy. I said 'Yep he's in the back bedroom poundin' Monica in a teener of crank trade. They never called again.

Last time I got the call looking for Mark Flash I told them that flaming homosexual ran off with his boyfriend. Not heard from those callers again.

I've had this phone number since '06. Used to get calls every month or so looking for Mark.

Yep, I had the same thing happen. Would get a call or two per month.


One guy, a bill collector told me that as I was a relative of the previous number holder that I was responsible for a $9400 debt. When I balked, the clown threatened to ruin my credit rating. Told him to go try that weak stuff on somebody else.


My first reaction was to try and explain the issue to whoever was calling. They would call back in a month. So, then I began telling whoever was calling that they had died. That helped.


I don’t get as many calls as I used to, but now I tell them that she moved... they invariably get a bit excited and ask where ......and I give them the Telephone number and address of local LBQGTHMxxxx office in Denver. This seems to work.


I’m not sure this all works but I am told that many of these calls were from collections agencies that have somehow “bought” or acquired rights to whatever they can collect. If they are unsuccessful, they may just sell the case to another collection agency. I told one collector that some relative of the lady died and left her a bunch of money, but she left town and up and paid me all the overdue and back rent.

Some libtard union worker intentionally "listed" her number as mine. I love it around election time. Some Michigan leftist group texted yesterday asking "Constance" how she felt Trump was doing. I responded "excellent!". They said "thanks, we will update our records".
A few months ago a pro murder group did an abortion survey by text. I game them the answers they never expected from a supporters number.
Last election, I told the union surveyor that the unions can take their voting suggestions and shove them up their ass, and told them I'd never vote for a democrat, no matter what. Wonder if she got flak at work? Lol

Block the numbers. Have your message say "I'm do not owe you money. That guy moved on to a different phone".

Hello,

Paul Johnson, FBI, how may I help you?

-click-buzz-

I’ve had my number for 20 years, don’t have that issue.

Just canceled my land line last week . My wife Had the number when we got married. Last four digits were 9997.
Easy for everyone to remember. A local electric company was one number off. Always getting calls for them.
Owner of the electric company called once. When my wife answered the phone he asked her if that was any way to answer a business phone. All she had said was hello. He continued to chew her out for a little while. Big mistake.
Hasbeen

I have received a number of calls that begin with....

I - "Hello."

He - "Hi, grandpa."

I- "Who?"

He - "It's me, grandpa, and ..."

I (interrupting) "What's your name?"

He- (overly familiar) "You know me, grandpa, I'm your grandson."

I- "We don't have a grandson"

He- (persistently) "No, it's me, grandpa. I'm in jail. They framed me and I need you to send me some money for bail."

I - "Get back to me after I hit El Gordo Lotto, okay?

He - "No, it's me, grandpa ...."

CLICK.

In the past two or three years, same call probably seven or eight times. Same pitch, same answer. I've heard the scam works pretty well on some old people. I'm old, but not that old.

L.W.

go back and get another number

I answer less than 50% of the calls I get. If I don’t know who it is, I never answer. Most times, no message, if there’s a legit message, I’ll call back.
Lots of this phone bs can be avoided, don’t answer unless you know who’s calling and you want to talk to them.

Yes. The Mrs. answered one call whereshe thought she recognized the caller and the scammy calls are about 2 to 3 times now what they were.

I got one like that only they really did have my grandson's name. Sounded very real at first.

Paul

I still get calls looking for Will.
He doesn't keep his restaurant or
hotel reservations, and doesn't pay
his bills. There's several individuals
trying to find him because they're
worried about him being out of
contact for so long

Sounds like the old " I need you to send me some
money for a bus ticket. . . " deal

Yup, me too. My previous number guy apparently was some kind of inept handyman, because I got calls complaining about plumbing, roofing, wiring...

I finally started saying "He can be reached at the state prison." (Which might not have been untrue!)

I just tell the people the poor dear fellow or girl is dead. Then ask them if they would like to contribute the eternal flower arrangement to be placed on his / her headstone on each Muslim Jewish holiday. I've yet to make a sale.

Cant be as bad as jurrasic park vids via text from Kingston.
Lol!!!

I use the murder scene ploy all the time. I'm detective I. B. Nabinem and insist they give me their full name, address, and a contact phone number. You would be surprised at how well this works. Turn the tables on them.

I love it..... Kudos for that idea...

Brilliant! You'll get the full volume effect, and they'll get the electronically limited version.

Last year I kept getting collect calls from the local sheriff's office, evidently Johnny got arrested and wanted to talk to Fred, only I had Fred's number. The little automated message where they state their name for you to hear is requesting the call initially started out as 'Johnny'. As time went by it became 'come on Fred, just answer the phone, I need to talk to you'. After a dozen of these I called the sheriff's office, explained I didn't know Johnny, and I certainly wasn't Fred, and to make it stop. They said they'd put my number on a 'do not allow calls' list. Next day I got a couple more calls, but after that no more.

My kid will probably get arrested when he is in high school and won't be able to call because the numbers blocked. Oh well.

I got a new number recently. Whoever had this number before must have been seriously hooked on online gambling.

Get casino scam texts couple times a day.

There are no *new* numbers, only recycled numbers. There's a reason they were dropped.

Well whoever got my old number is one awesome mfer

They should send me royalties


And....I hope they enjoy the 25 telemarketers that caused me to switch. 😃

Thing of it is I've found if you just pay your bills the collectors quit calling.......

Worked for the phone company for years. I was getting crank calls late at night. Caller thought it was cute. Started using Call Forwarding and sending it to Dial-a-Prayer and other interesting places. Found a number that had been disconnected. Calls stopped and they must have thought I changed my number. A friend of mine sent a technician to my place because she was convinced my line was crossed with K-Mart, Dial-a-Prayer, or McDonalds.


Be careful though, forwarded calls to paid sites, and international numbers will show up on YOUR bill.
Also, ALL calls will get forwarded when call forwarding is enabled.
Lastly, it doesn't work that well when calls are random.

I get text messages o my cell phone pretty much daily for some chick. I get tired of telling them there is o oe at my umber by that age - ad ever was. My wife says she heard they are just fishing for umbers that get answered, ad I should ignore them, rather than curse them. I may try some of the suggestions of this thread, where appropriate, to give them some of their own [bleep]?

Mike Holmes

My Dad got one of those calls saying it was his grandson Jonathan and he was in trouble and needed $5000 for bail to get out of jail and pay fines in Puerto Rico. Dad had just had breakfast with Jonathan earlier that morning in Northern New York. He played along telling the caller, "Well Jonathan, this is one of those defining moments in a young man's life when he has to take responsibility for his own actions. I'm sorry son but you're going to have to get out of this mess on your own." The caller went off on Dad at which point he just hung up.

I also got the bill collectors calling every day when I first had this phone number. It had belonged to a small job contractor in the same town. I didn't know the guy but it took 2-3 years of their frequent calls before I finally convinced them he didn't have this number any more. Then one day, standing in line to screen into the oil field on my first day back to the slope after my R&R, I heard his name. He was in line in front of me. I was tempted to say something to him but thought better of it. Who knows what caused his financial difficulty. Divorce, no pay on a big job, illness. I figured he was working and I wasn't getting his calls any more by this time so just let it go.

I just don’t answer any call I don’t know. When I purchased a house in 2010, I literally had mail everyday for the previous owner for 6 months

Like 15-20 envelopes a day. Maybe 2 or 3 pieces a week for me

I finally got pizzed, and found the guy on Facebook. He was down in Florida. He was a licensed lab technician at a hospital. I went to the post office and had all his mail forwarded to that hospital.

Never got another after that.

Check the weedy ditches.

I loved the ones that started, "What are you wearing, Skippy?"

She sounded embarressed when I told her I wasn't Skippy.

The third time.

That may have been a mistake, as the calls ended.