Got the second one today from this listing. Tip for handling these low lives. Wait until you get a live person on. By now you should have invested in either an inexpensive body alarm or police whistle. Give them a blast. It's them harassing you isn't it, with no regard for your rights. Then follow Lamet's advice. Have a good time.
I work in the cirulation department of my local newspaper. As such, we get a lot calls from collection agencies in regards to our newspaper carriers. I guess many of them have taken out payday loans or auto loans and may have fallen behind on payments. Usually, I just inform the debt collector that the person they're looking for is a newspaper carrier. I've been asked for their personal phone numbers, to which I state I am not allowed to give out that information. Then they ask if I can forward a message, to which I say "No." When they say something along the lines of, "Is this how you treat your employees - you can't give them an important message?" I simply reply, "The person you are looking for is an independant contractor and is not an employee." They usually call me a name and hang up around this point. This particular number called with an automated message for one of the carriers - it asked if I was the person, and if not, to press a number. Then they asked me to press another key if they had called the wrong number. Hopefully they don't call back.
Got the third call from these bottom feeders today and this time I answered the call as a live person was on the other end asking if this was this or that. Told them I was tracking, logging and recording calls and to take my listing off their robocaller. If any further are received they will discover that today was three strikes and you're out and will go to work on them. Also see posts dated 30 March 2012. Great site and folks.
these calls are getting old real fast, they have called from this number and several others from all over the country. always ask for my wife by her former married name. she talked to them once, they said it was a credit card acct. problem is it was a 15 yr old closed acct. when she told them this they hung up on her. they continue to call every day. my number is on the do not call list and has been for years