Weird (probably illegal) telemarketing call
Got a phone call today from "Unknown Caller." I picked up the phone.
Pause.
"Please call Lamar at 1-800-xxx-xxxx. Please call Lamar at 1-800-xxx-xxxx."
Uh, WTF? Who's Lamar? I didn't have time to jot down the number but if he calls again, I'm going to report him as a Do Not Call List violator.
posted by John O'Neill @ 1:06 PM
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This kind of thing happened to me once. "Lamar" is probably a debt collector. Some deadbeat has given your phone number, possibly by making up a random string of numbers, to a creditor.
I got calls for Margaret Hicks at least twice a week. When it became annoying, I called the number back and discovered, yep, I was dealing with a skip tracer. No matter how many times I pleaded that there was no Margaret Hicks, that I'd had the phone number for four years and I had never known anyone named Margaret Hicks, the debt collector was driving me crazy, and could I please speak to your supervisor, you dolt, I never got anywhere.
The only way I got rid of these pests was, when I finally moved and changed my phone number, I did not leave a forwarding number with the phone company. I hate doing that - I like my friends to be able to find me, but I didn't want Margaret's creditors chasing me from house to house, either.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope this isn't what's happening to you!
Dianne
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