"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 8/21/2014 2:16 PM, Pico Rico wrote:
>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>>> On 8/21/2014 1:16 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> I have been getting these calls for a long time. The first time I got
>>>> one, I was picking my daughter up at school so it was probably May or
>>>> June. The call had come in while I was driving so I couldn't answer.
>>>> When I played back the voice mail, it was from someone at AARP about a
>>>> job that Susan had applied for. So I called the number back to tell
>>>> them that they had the wrong number but there was no answer. I left a
>>>> message.
>>>>
>>>> This same scenario played out several times. Couldn't answer.
>>>> Voicemail. Left message.
>>>>
>>>> Finally I was able to get a live body when I called but each time, the
>>>> woman on the phone sounded very confused. She said there were 10
>>>> people
>>>> who worked there and she had no idea who had called.
>>>>
>>>> But finally, just now, the woman called and I was able to answer. It
>>>> was AARP in Seattle. She sounded very astounded to hear that there was
>>>> no Susan here. Asked me if I was sure and even read back my phone
>>>> number to me.
>>>>
>>>> I hope that was the last of it. But AARP must be very desperate for a
>>>> new employee if they have been calling over a 3-4 month time span to
>>>> try
>>>> to contact Susan!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That ain't nothing. I had somebody calling me for 10 years asking for a
>>> Mark.
>>
>> so why were you not "Mark"?
>>
>>
>
> I could have done that - say "hi this is Mark, can I help you?" Actually,
> that's a pretty good idea. That would have been funny. Oh well, I guess
> we'll never know how much money Mark owed these guys. That's the breaks.

or you could have given them Mark's new number. Back in the day of junk
faxes, some senders used to have an option for you to call and be removed
from their list. But they also had an option during that phone menu to add
fax numbers. So I started adding a fax number for the state Attorney
General, and a fax number for the FCC.