Phone Abuse

This is a page about phone abuse. Despite Do-Not-Call, one can get a lot of unwanted calls. Questionable charities calling to raise money, political calls during election cycles, and now, recently, collection calls looking for former residents of my address, but calling my number which the former residents never owned! First it was Iowa Revenue calling for other persons who had my address before me, but calling a number registered to me. Next it was an out of state collection agency looking for other persons who apparently lived here before, but, again, did not have my number! Apparently both looked up my phone record and transposed it to name and address records of former residents. The only common element being the street address! I cannot even find a discussion of this happening on the web, the closest being people using a recycled phone number, but, in my case, a recycled street address and overreaching computer programs connecting my phone number to other persons who never used it! No, Guy Mitchell and Travis Remington do not live here with me, or share this phone number! I have reported these calls to www.donotcall.gov but, apparently little action is actually taken on such violations. One may have to resort to a civil suit! |