To best deal with these calls, add them to your contacts (cell phones), give them any name you want, and make sure to check on the option at the bottom (Androids have this, but I believe iPhones too) to direct this calls straight to your voicemail. You will never have to bother again with all the numbers that you do exactly that. I hope this helps.....;)
I answered a call from a number that I thought was someone I was waiting fora call from.
It was an AMEX collection person. I spoke to this young lady who became very argumentative very fast.
I had been working with AMEX as I owned a business with a guy who turned out to be a scumbag and had been stealing from the company for years. He hired his best buddy a few years earlier as a person he needed to do scheduling. As the years went by, he and my ex-partner kept moving him up and before I knew it, he was overseeing the contracts and money that was coming in and out of the company.
"Major Warning" for you people who in business with a person who is more concerned about their lifestyle than the work the company is doing! I had enough, hired an attorney who told me be get out and he would settle everything in court. I learned a very good lesson, "corporate credit" is very different from "consumer credit". I was stupid and signed my name under a supposed "Incorporated" business.
When I left,these guys raided the company credit,even an line of credit account, that, "here me" once you sign for it and it gets paid back, the company officers and reopen the line and take it, and you are on the hook for it! Anyway,back to the call.I told this girl that I was already working with AMEX and that if she wants anything, sent me the bill.I even gave her my address. She stated yelling at me and calling me names and telling me that I owe this and that> I told her to send me the bill and I will call AMEX back. I have never been sent anything from them, no bills, nothing! But I keep getting calls from different numbers and if I dont answer,they never leave a message. I have checked the numbers and they all have been from these "scumbag" collection companies! If you guys say this is AMEX collection, I'm sure you are right! They have been calling non-stop from a half dozen numbers and never leave a message. I don't understand, are they hired to collect the money? All they seem to do is harass people, but don't care about the money! I guess they bill AMEX and others per call???