How do I get a debt collection agency that has the wrong number to stop calling me?
Some debt collection agency in Georgia keeps harassing me, looking for somebody named Sarah at my phone number. I do not know a Sarah. They have the wrong number. I have told them multiple times that they have the wrong number, but they keep calling me (obviously they think that I’m lying). How do I get them to stop calling me? They call with restricted numbers so I don’t even know how to get back to them.
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You need to be civil 1st off, being a jerk to these people will only result in more calls. Tell them this is not Sarah’s number, and that you need to be put on there do not call this right now. And if you get another call, you will involve your attorney.
Registed a complaint with your phone co.
Shortly after we moved, I had an issue with a university calling our home. Apparently a student with a delinquent number had the number previously. I politely persisted in telling them they had the wrong number; that so-and-so did not live there. We let the answering machine take the call most of the time. The bill collector gave up after three or four months.
If being polite doesn’t do it,
and filing a phone company complaint doesn’t do it,
try lodging a complaint with the Better Business Bureau that covers the area where the collection agency is located. The BBB will contact the firm, and many companies take the BBB pretty seriously.
Get the name and address of the collection agency — if you get the name, you can google and get the address. Send them a certified, return receipt letter telling them to cease and desist calling your phone number.
Send them a C&D FOAD letter, if they call again tell them you are recording the call, ask them to say and spell their name so you can be sure and get their name right on the lawsuit papers for violation of Federal law.