someone from this number l has been calling my number looking for a former neighbor who actually never lived at the address he provided to her...Suspect she is from a collection agency.
It's just a collection agency called Credit Bureau Services Canada. No idea where the one person got MJR collections from?
Anyway they called and left a message asking if I knew someone. I called back and told the woman who had called that I didn't know the person. She said she would remove my number. It's been two weeks now and I haven't gotten a single call back.
No idea why people seem to be making up stories here about them calling several times a day etc. Calling back and telling the truth solved my problem just fine...and no one was rude to me at all.
They call themselves Ontario Credit Bureau and MJR. I keep getting voice messages from 8 am to 8:47 pm from them. The same number comes up with messages claiming they are Ontario Credit Bureau one day and the next they are MJR.
I have called them many times asking who they are looking for and they keep saying a name that is nothing near my family or any relatives last name. When I tell them the number must have belonged to that person in the past, they get very rude and say I am lying to get out of paying the amount. That they will have to take me to court.
I am right now at the point of changing my number to a private one. Which isnt right because it will cost me money to do that and the hassle of letting all my REAL relatives know it and friends.
Guess you got one of the nicer ones to speak to. I still havent found one there yet. They probably fired that one.
Polly P.P. You could start a new career as a fiction writer. Sell your home. That is why it's considered a good investment, because it's not as volatile as the stock market, and people will always need a place to
live. Don't speak with debt collector agencies. The original companies you owed payment to have sold your 'account' for pennies on the dollar. Paying them even $50 will not reinstate once stellar credit. In fact, if your name ends up on one of these lists, as it has, then you can pretty well expect phone calls from every agency that 'buys' this list for at least 10 years to come. And .... good to know, every time you connect with one of them directly - either by picking up the government-allotted window (2-6 yrs) for the collection agency to pursue you starts over again. I know these slippery characters change their numbers all the time, but get Call Display - so once you've had a message from them, you won't pick up accidentally again.