Debt collector harrassment

[Angela33]

I have a Tennessee number, but currently live in NY. Six years ago I had my cell phone number changed. I started to get phone calls everyday multiple times a day from a financial service looking for someone. I told them that I had recently changed my number and got the new number, whoever they were looking for changed their number. I offered to have my carrier send them an email or a letter, or even call to confirm that I now am the owner of the number. They told me no its okay they would make a notation of it. This has been happening for six years. It's gotten to the point where they have told me that I am lying, I am the person they are looking for and they have been getting nasty with me. I've had it, I cannot take it anymore. I told them rudely last time that they have been calling me for six years, and that I've been assured they will stop calling. Nothing happened. Today I received another call.

Is there anything I can do to get these calls to stop? Thank you.

 

[Zigner]

I have a Tennessee number, but currently live in NY. Six years ago I had my cell phone number changed. I started to get phone calls everyday multiple times a day from a financial service looking for someone. I told them that I had recently changed my number and got the new number, whoever they were looking for changed their number. I offered to have my carrier send them an email or a letter, or even call to confirm that I now am the owner of the number. They told me no its okay they would make a notation of it. This has been happening for six years. It's gotten to the point where they have told me that I am lying, I am the person they are looking for and they have been getting nasty with me. I've had it, I cannot take it anymore. I told them rudely last time that they have been calling me for six years, and that I've been assured they will stop calling. Nothing happened. Today I received another call.

Is there anything I can do to get these calls to stop? Thank you.

Get a new number.

 

[quincy]

I am pretty sure I would have followed Zigner's advice a long time ago instead of putting up with the calls for 6 years. It certainly seems to me to be the smartest thing to do now.

That said, if you are not the person the financial service is looking for, and you know the name of the financial service, you can file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the CFPB can potentially put an end to the annoying calls. Here is a link to filing a complaint: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/