A large corporation gave out my number as theirs

[OutdoorsRyan]

Hello, a very large corporation gave out my personal phone number as a call back number, they also may have had my phone number entered into some kind of a redirect operation where people would call primary numbers for them and those people would be routed to my number. The entire thing was initiated by me signing up for a service they offer, and immediately after they called me to confirm the appointment time is when it started.
Over the span of 5+ hours I received around 1500 phone calls, and a full voicemail. People may have even left personal payment or account information on my answering machine.
It seems like this should be illegal, what's the word?

 

[cbg]

The word is, Mistake. The word is not, Actionable.

Contact the company and let them know of the error.

 

[OutdoorsRyan]

The suggestion is that they made a mistake, and didn't intend to launch a DNS attack on my phone? The company does not care as far as I can tell

 

[Zigner]

The suggestion is that they made a mistake, and didn't intend to launch a DNS attack on my phone? The company does not care as far as I can tell

The FACT is that they made a mistake and didn't intend to launch a DNS attack on your phone. Why would they want to send CUSTOMERS to the wrong number?

 

[OutdoorsRyan]

I know your point but I always thought negligence wasn't an excuse..

 

[cbg]

Then you were wrong, weren't you?

I'm sure it's very annoying. It happened to a friend of my husband's, whose cell phone was accidentally placed on a number of flyers for a bakery. But it is still not actionable.

 

[OutdoorsRyan]

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I went through a terms and conditions agreement online, shouldn't that have covered things like not sharing my personal information?

 

[FlyingRon]

One evening my phone started ringing. It was people trying to donate money for flood relief in Nashville. After about the fourth call I turned on the CMT and sure enough their number as the same as mine except they had an 800 prefix and mine starts with 877 (both toll free). They even sometimes used my number duing announcements. After toying with the idea of collecting people's credit card info, I just set the outgoing message to redirect people to the proper number.

 

[cbg]

Fine. Since you're convinced you have a lawsuit, call a few attorneys and set up appointments. If they start turning cartwheels, you've got something. If they ask you for a lot of money up front to write a nastygram, you don't.

 

[eerelations]

OP, this is definitely actionable if the company did it deliberately and with malice (which I'm sure you already know, as you're so sure this is actionable). Since you know that this is actionable, please tell us what evidence you have that it was done deliberately and with malice.

Thank you.