In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:16:27 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > They do it all the time. My brother just retired from many years working
> > for a collection agency and he was in court several times each week. I
> > don't have problems with collection agencies because I pay my bills.
> > However, I once had a guy from my brother's company calling me. It
> > wasn't me he wanted. He was looking for the people who used to live
> > above me in the fourplex I was living in. They had moved out months
> > earlier. I hardly knew them because they had moved out shortly after we
> > moved in.
>
> You must have done something to **** them off in such a short time
> if they gave their creditors *your* phone number.

I think this is an old story. Back in those days, every collection
place had a reverse directory (you look up the address, it gives you the
phone number) and people usually didn't have unlisted numbers (you had
to pay extra back then for that).

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA