The person I was replying to admitted that the collection agents actually reached the person they were trying to reach.
Besides that fact, I never get collection calls. And I have a fairly common name. I'd surely be getting calls left and right if the incidence of mistaken identity is as high as a lot of people like to make it out to be. The truth is collection calls have the right person the majority of the time.
How about still calling a number the debtor has long since changed/disconnected. The best was a debt collector calling my number for the past owner of the number for a phone bill (AT&T). They threatened disconnection, when I asked well then how do you ever expect to reach them by the phone if your going to disconnect the phone. 2nd time they claimed the phone was cut off and to restore service the person they were calling needed to pay them. When I asked how that could be true if I was the person you was looking for, how would you and I be talking. If I was that person, I wouldent have phone service, since the number you called is the numer your trying to collect the bill on.
reply to thegeek I never admitted to any such thing. Reread very carefully. Get a new phone number some time, odds are you'll get a collection call sooner rather than later, and repeatedly too even if you tell the same company repeatedly that no such person exists at that number. When it comes to collections, the person on the receiving end of the phone is always guilty until a credit card number or electronic draft is received.
But that's neither here nor there. I knew there'd be at least one of the "Pay your bills" crowd to jump in with blind rage.
fwiw: this is also fun to do with sales calls too.
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