Telephone Harassment by a Business

[eerelations]

Many many years ago I received such calls on my new phone for a person named Suzanne who apparently owed a lot of people a lot of money. After repeated attempts (like five or so) to tell the callers that I was not Suzanne, I asked one of the callers to put me through to his/her supervisor. He/she did, and I explained that I was not Suzanne. I also told the supervisor my full name and suggested that if she/he called information with my name (which was not Suzanne), she/he would discover that my number was not attached to anyone named Suzanne. I never received a call again from these debt collectors.

I suspect that if OP does the same, he might get a similar result.

 

[quincy]

I suspect that if OP does the same, he might get a similar result.

I think FlyingRon might beg to differ. Haha. But it is certainly worth a try.

 

[cbg]

Many many years ago I received such calls on my new phone for a person named Suzanne who apparently owed a lot of people a lot of money. After repeated attempts (like five or so) to tell the callers that I was not Suzanne, I asked one of the callers to put me through to his/her supervisor. He/she did, and I explained that I was not Suzanne. I also told the supervisor my full name and suggested that if she/he called information with my name (which was not Suzanne), she/he would discover that my number was not attached to anyone named Suzanne. I never received a call again from these debt collectors.

Your name doesn't even sound like Suzanne. They both have two syllables and they both end in "ne". But there the "resemblance" ends.

DH uses his middle name, for reasons not relevant here. We always know when it's a telemarketer because they call asking for him by his first name, which he never uses.

 

[Just Blue]

I got a new cell today...I was still setting up my voice mail when I got my very first incoming call....guess what it was...wait for it...you got it!! A debt collector!