Received 7 phone calls from this company today starting at 8:33am. I don't have an answering machine so they can't leave a message but I'm pretty sure it's a collection agency. I think one of their clients is Old Navy but I'm sure they have others.
This is NCO Financial. They call you ALL DAY LONG and up until 9pm at night. I had them call me at 7:58am once. I think they have an auto-dial system. I have NEVER seen a company call that many times in one day. Now, I'm used to it. Annoyed but its routine. I either hit ignore on my cellphone or just dismiss the 7-10 calls I get from them a day. I consider myself one of the lucky ones because they didn't call me Thanksgiving, christmas or new years. Other numbers they use:
I'm thinking about answering and not saying anything, screaming into the phone, making farting noises, acting really stupid, making them wait forever to speak with the person they are calling about, babbling jibberish into the phone like a baby, pushing a bunch of numbers when I pick up... etc. Does anyone think that these tactics will get them to lay off? Like "caller insane, sounds like drunk baby," or "caller would not stop bodily functions?" If I can't get them to stop... maybe I can make them happen less often, or at least amuse myself while they continue to harass me.
Yep ppl, it's a debt collector: NCO. Just simply ask them to send you an itemized list of what you owe; they will say "yes" but will not be able to produce it. I mean, if you don't care about your credit. Not being sarcastic--if you owe 3 grand in hospital bills, it's pretty much worth it as the hospital cannot, by law, give out medical records to bill collectors. But this is just an example--I don't know what else they could be trying to collect for but they might do more than just medical/hospital bills.
Another way to get rid of them is to just say they have a wrong number and deny that you are the person they are looking for. Then they will mark it in their files that they have a wrong number and not call you again. And of course yet a third way to get them to stop is to just pay the bill. :-/
I get a lot of these calls also, from the same number, they recall so much, it drives me nuts. What I dont understand is, if its so very very important that they had to recall so many times, then why dont they leave a message??? How wierd.