A woman called our home and claimed to be an academic advisor. The caller ID read UNKNOWN NAME 720-399-7170. We have three children in public schools and assumed it was the school.
The woman started asking all sorts of intrusive questions (our dates of birth, our dates of graduation, our age, and so on). She never asks our name. I asked for her name and contact information. She said her name is Ashley and her phone number is 801-805-7995. When confronted her about her misleading script, she claimed that someone in hour home asked for information about college on a website but could not define the web address.
I Googled 801-805-7995 and learned that it is a collection agency called Portfolio Recovery. Methinks they are using illegal tactics to get information. We had filed for bankruptcy last year and wonder i someone isn't going to try to scam us into paying some of that old debt.
I have received nine phone calls from this number in the past four hours. Sometimes the other end of the line is silent, but sometimes they ask for Tanya.
It makes you wonder how people like that get phones in the first place. By their logic, they would walk to the convenience store to buy a piece of bread in order to give to the stray cat outside the apartment complex in exchange for information leading to the arrest of the guy that hangs out at the nearby intersection begging for money in order to procure phone service at Rey's house. I mean, that seriously makes as much sense and would produce the exact same results as posting Rey's msg to this website (with OR without Rey's phone number included). Dolts.