Look above to the above mentioned posts and you will read where a collections person called the persons MOM so before swearing at a person you should know what the [***] your talking about.!
The stupid POS operator that answered when I called this number refused to tell methe nature of the business. Ultimately they provided the name of the person they are looking for. I know the name of the person she is looking for: that deadbeat had our phone number befor we did, 3 YEARS AGO. These collection idiots are too stupid to use a current directory. The deadbeats are JOHN AND REBBECA SAWYER. Their creditors, friends and family, and prison buddy have been calling this number for 3 years. We took pity on their prison buddy and explained that this was not Rebbeca's number, and he stopped trying to call. The creditors are not so smart. We have obtained phone numbers for the Sawyers. We gleefully share them with honest callers that don't have recordings making anonomous annoying calls. If the POS operator from this company had said up front that it was a collection or credit agency, we would have given them the numbers that we have. Piss me off, you can do your own research, and suffer my verbal wrath on the phone,
I've had the same experience as you. I've had this phone number for 3 years plus and we are still getting phone calls for the former person who had this number and never paid any bills.
I agree that they could look up the phone number and see that the person they are looking for no longer has this number.