I truly believe that debt collectors, especially the bottom feeders, will call every person in the United states with the name that they need or even names that are close (Melissa for Melanie, etc.).
calls EVERYDAY and occasionally leaves messages, one was from "natasha" who said i needed to call her back that day b/c it was important.... basically this is a debt collector
Woman called from Everett WA saying she had to talk to me about and urgent business matter and would not tell me what it was about until I verrified who it was. She continued to call me back three times after I continued to hang up on her.
Left a msg on my answering machine that it was Tami Gaines(?) calling from Century Credit about a bad debt - I don't have any bad debts. Called her back and asked her how she got my name and phone number - I have an unlisted number. She asked me my name and I asked her why she wanted to know. Then she said "Are you (my name)"; when I confirmed that I was, she asked if I lived at an address in Tacoma, WA (which clearly was impossible from having a 425 phone number). When I told her I'd never lived there, she said "she would take me off their list and that they must have gotten me mixed up with another person". I don't think this person is a deb collector at all - I think she has some kind of scam going. I hung up but called her back and asked her how she got my phone number since it is unlisted, and she just said, "don't worry - we have taken you off our list".