Excessive Collection Calls - Change Number?

[cana]

What is the name of your state? CA

Well, the creditors of mine, and my mother(who has left the country)'s, are calling extensively.

Today, my caller id machine recorded 35 (Thirty-five) collection and other junk calls, in a single day. Most of them simply showed "Unknown Number" in the screen. (SBC doesn't do its job well) Only two of them actually bothered to leave a message.

The phone is not held in my name or my mother's name. It's held in the landlady's name, and she is not very pleased about all these calls so if I ask she will change the phone number.

Should I change the phone number? If I do, what consequence will that action bring?

[BL]

Gee, maybe you could find another place to live , and the landlady would stay mad, or change her number anyways.

You are ignoring the collectors anyways, so what's the Difference, if your landlady changes the phone number ? If she does, you and your landlady can expect alot more mail . BTW you can't change someone elses phone #.

A hint a bout collection calls : Debtors phone numbers are entered into a computer. The computer dials the numbers. If no one picks up there's no message left. Even if you do pick up, the phone might get disconnected.

If the collectors number is long distance , it's not always picked up by Ids.

You should contact the FTC, and request copies of FDCPA and FCRA.

[ihatearizona]

Send the collectors a limited cease and desist letter stating that you will only deal with them in writing.

[cana]

I did send it to one of them which were nice enough to send a letter telling where they are.

The problem is, I simply don't know who else to contact since they just ring the bell and disconnect so I don't have any way of finding who they were.

[ihatearizona]

No caller ID available to use?

[cana]

The caller Id service I get from SBC mostly shows "Unknown Number" for these hit-and-run calls, and the few numbers I get from the service don't make any sense.

I always check these numbers when I see it, and these numbers do not refer to anything.

[ihatearizona]

So, let me be sure I've got this right: They are calling, letting the phone ring once and then hanging up? Or, are you not answering the calls? Haven't you received any mail correspondence from the collectors?

[cana]

>are calling, letting the phone ring once and then hanging up?

>Or, are you not answering the calls?

I never answer any collection calls, and the collectors just let the phone ring twice (which is the limit the answering machine will take) and then automatically disconnect, so it's both.

I have put all of my debts to a settlement company and signed away my PoA, so the CCs are mostly my mother's. (She just dumped everything on me before leaving the country. I didn't cosign any of her debts.)

>Haven't you received any mail correspondence from the collectors?

Only one of them actually sent any mail correspondence, and I already sent the C&DL to that agency. The rest, I have no idea at all.

[cana]

The caller ID machine did catch the phone number of Intellirisk, who called SIX times today.

The problem, is, because my mother owed a bunch of credit cards I don't know to which debt it belongs, plus they have not sent me any correspondence.

[Ladynred]

Change your phone number and make it unlisted. Then do not give that number to ANYONE that would give it to a stranger. Do not put it on any kind of application for anything. Now that you know who is calling you should be able to find their address and send the cease and desist.

[BL]

Originally Posted by Ladynred

Change your phone number and make it unlisted. Then do not give that number to ANYONE that would give it to a stranger. Do not put it on any kind of application for anything. Now that you know who is calling you should be able to find their address and send the cease and desist.

This IS their Landlady's Phone. The Poster can - not change the Landlady's phone number . The Landlady would have to .

[Ladynred]

Ahh.. I forgot about that.. not enough cofffee this morning
They'll just have to send the C&D then.

[BL]

We all have our off days

Quite honestly, since the Tenant or the Landlady doesn't know who's calling, even IF the tenant moves out the Landlady will continue to get phone calls from creditors, because that's the number they have on record.

The Only way these calls are going to STOP is with a change in phone # , that's unlisted.

[Mr.Knight]

I will tell you this getting the number to a nonpublished number is not the best thing to do.
Do you have Neighbors? Bet you do.
Want to stop the collection calls?
First off, if you parents came to this country, and ran up credit cards and then left the country. WHY??

See we call this "Finacial Terrorism."
Where people from other countries come to the US and then run up creditor cards, and then go back to there country without paying for them.
If they did it, and they have a phone# in the other country give the credit companies the phone# let your parents deal with it. Since they created the bill.

[FromNY]

Originally Posted by Mr.Knight

I will tell you this getting the number to a nonpublished number is not the best thing to do.
Do you have Neighbors? Bet you do.
Want to stop the collection calls?
First off, if you parents came to this country, and ran up credit cards and then left the country. WHY??

See we call this "Finacial Terrorism."
Where people from other countries come to the US and then run up creditor cards, and then go back to there country without paying for them.
If they did it, and they have a phone# in the other country give the credit companies the phone# let your parents deal with it. Since they created the bill.

This guy is still here? I thought his absence was due to realizing his idiocy and that when God created him, he forgot to add anything to his brain; and therefore faced with cruelty of life he went and hanged (hey Mr Night is it hang or hung or hanged?) himself. But no, he is here and as they say: the emptier the head the bigger the mouth.

Mr Night where did YOUR ancestors come from?, weren’t they those who were chased away from their own country, and by force they were sent here? Go read (if you can) who those can be. And if you want to write to entertain us, do so, but do not go beyond that, because then what you write which already is senseless will be more absurd.