I just got a new phone number. New, new. Nobody has had it before. We’ll see how long it takes to get the fake calls or becomes a victim of spoofing. I exchanged it for one that was both a spoofing victim and had belonged to someone who didn’t pay their debts. I had received that previous owner’s calls for 16 years after I got it. I just recently got another call on my cell phone from a debt collector trying to contact the previous number owner; I’ve had the number 18 years.
For my very first work issued cell phone for being on-call, I had a number the was previously owned by someone running an “escort” service. I had the phone barely a day and I got the first call by someone wanting a “date” with a blond or redhead to meet him at a hotel. I guess some “clients” still had the old number. Before work could get the number changed (they had to do it since it was their phone), I got about a half dozen calls requesting “escort” services. And some of the guys calling were VERY explicit in what they wanted the escort to do for them. I’d keep saying, you have a wrong number please don’t call again, but they wouldn’t listen and kept describing what they wanted.
I had a deadbeat list my number (because it was an easy sequence of #s to remember) to who knows who and she was crook to 15 companies as well as a $127,000 student debt. Unreal.
julie.mason1 Premium Member about 3 years ago
But you have Penny and Claremont. No Mercedes can come close to that.
drycurt about 3 years ago
I just got a new phone number. New, new. Nobody has had it before. We’ll see how long it takes to get the fake calls or becomes a victim of spoofing. I exchanged it for one that was both a spoofing victim and had belonged to someone who didn’t pay their debts. I had received that previous owner’s calls for 16 years after I got it. I just recently got another call on my cell phone from a debt collector trying to contact the previous number owner; I’ve had the number 18 years.
StackableContainers about 3 years ago
For my very first work issued cell phone for being on-call, I had a number the was previously owned by someone running an “escort” service. I had the phone barely a day and I got the first call by someone wanting a “date” with a blond or redhead to meet him at a hotel. I guess some “clients” still had the old number. Before work could get the number changed (they had to do it since it was their phone), I got about a half dozen calls requesting “escort” services. And some of the guys calling were VERY explicit in what they wanted the escort to do for them. I’d keep saying, you have a wrong number please don’t call again, but they wouldn’t listen and kept describing what they wanted.
willie_mctell about 3 years ago
The previous user of my number was a native Spanish speaker.
70440758 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I had a deadbeat list my number (because it was an easy sequence of #s to remember) to who knows who and she was crook to 15 companies as well as a $127,000 student debt. Unreal.