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    Default Debt Collector Calling My House Looking For My Husband's Ex

    My question involves collection proceedings in the State of: NY
    I have a few debt collector calling my house constantly looking for my husbends ex wife, she changed her married name back to her madian 13 years ago. Can I give out her phone number when they call? Can I give her work number since she does not answer her house phone or have an anserwing machine. I am tired of these calls.

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    Default Re: Debt Collector Calling My House Looking For My Husband's Ex

    Legally, you may give them any contact information of hers that you have. That's what they're after, anyway.

    Be careful, though. Instead of calls from debt collectors, you might end up trading those in for angry calls from her.

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    Default Re: Debt Collector Calling My House Looking For My Husband's Ex

    Thanks, that's what I am afraid of, but I am also wondering how they got my number, they are looking for her at my number and house. And your right I don't know what is worst, non stop calls from them or HER!!

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    Default Re: Debt Collector Calling My House Looking For My Husband's Ex

    Then get the names and numbers together and have your spouse call her.

    Tell her that if she doesn't take care of it and stop the calls within 2 weeks you are gonna start giving her numbers out.

    Problem solved.

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    Default Re: Debt Collector Calling My House Looking For My Husband's Ex

    I can't see rewarding bad behavior giving them the information. I was a "debt collector" for a short while out of college, and I see debtors harassed and lied to.

    I was told a good friend of ours had this persistent collector calling for someone she hadn't seen or heard from in years. Finally, she somehow got herself a "non working" phone number (in fact any random phone# with the area code would do), and the office number of the headquarters of the FBI in our city as the POB. When the debt collector called again she said "this info is years old, but this is the home# and the office#, it's all I got ...". I thought it was cute that the collector would be calling FBI headquarters.

    After all, all they wanted are phone#'s and it's not up to you to verify it for them. OK, you lied, but they do it all day long.

    Nowadays, I got a device installed on my phone described here:

    www.interceptorid.com

    I got these collectors chasing someone by the same name as I, and I thought it was dangerous for my wife to start giving out my social security number to prove I wasn't the guy. In fact, anyone can pose as a bill collector to harass information out of people for "idendity theft" purposes. Using this device, if someone called once, I record the number, program it to "answering machine" only, and it's done. In 9 cases out of 10, when a collector encounters an answering machine, they would hang up anyway.

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    Default Re: Debt Collector Calling My House Looking For My Husband's Ex

    SF - That is hilarious!
    When I worked for the credit and collection agencies we would have salespeople call asking for the person who made decisions. My manager already had all of his suppliers lined up, so he always took the call. When he took the call he would say that Mike Johnson is out, but you can try his direct line at 4PM. His direct line was usually the detectives at the police department and one of his buddies was a detective down there and happened to be "Mike Johnson."

    Every now and then we got an angry sales guy calling back and my manager would give them another number. One sales guy got really mad and asked to speak witht he manager. My manager looked at our debt software. In the computer he found the sales guy had some collections. We had the salespersons name and employer and they matched who he was selling for!

    There were a few times that this happened and my manager sometimes worked out deals with them to get it off their credit if they paid the bill and made us a good deal on whatever they were selling (printing or office supplies, usually). We were only 1 of 2 agencies in town but had 90% of the business. Sometimes we got a PIF as a settlement that was client-approved and had new office chairs.

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