Comments on: Stop Bill Collector Harassment

By: Razor

Razor — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:03:31 +0000

Mrs. Micah, I have the exact same problem as your friend. I got a cell phone from T-Mobile and it must have belonged to some mortgage defaulter because I keep getting a mortgage company calling me and calling me some other name (not mine) and asking for me to call them back to work out my mortgage. Its crazy! I’ve told them several times that I am not that guy but they still keep calling.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:28:35 +0000

How weird! Sadly, I have very close friends that were harrassed by bill collectors for something that was not even their debt. It was such a headache they ended up just paying the bill because the collectors made their life so miserable.

Unfortunately, it happens all the time.

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:07:04 +0000

When one of my friends got her first cell phone, she was assigned a number by T-Mobile. It appears that the previous person had not only defaulted on the number but on a lot of other bills as well. She was getting harassing calls, some nights the phone wouldn’t stop ringing even though she didn’t answer it. If she answered, she’d say "Look, I just bought this phone and number." But it didn’t help.

So she made T-mobile change her number. Luckily, that’s easier to change than an address (or worse a mis-identified name).