Con woman and my phone number

[fuzzybuddy]

Around 2002, a con woman swindled three car dealerships and did a bunch of other cons. She used at least three names. The towns she listed didn't exist in the state she listed. And the zip code was for another state. Yet she used my phone number for all of this. I got calls from everybody for years. Unfortunately, I am not a professional con artist. I've always wondered why she needed a real telephone number. Anybody know?

 

[Kitties]

I'm not really sure but she must have filled out paperwork and put down a number she made up. And sadly for you, it was yours.

Many years ago my parents got a new number and it had belonged to someone with major credit issues. I guess the usual 6 months out of service didn't work. The phone company changed their number again at no cost because the phone calls were frequent and very aggressive.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

For every con, she used a different fake name, and a different state, and a different town, but there was always no such town in that state and the zip code was for another state. The only consistent thing was my phone number. So this wasn't off the top of her head. She did her homework.

 

[Kitties]

And you know of no connection between this woman and yourself? It is very strange that she kept using the same number when towns, states and zips were jumbled.

Did you ever consider changing your number? It can be a hassle informing everyone who you want to have your number, but once it's done it's done.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Never met her. Changed my tel. number. Debt collectors still got to me. The legitimate ones stopped calling me.

 

[OldBiker]

When I moved in to my present house in 2004, the phone number I was assigned belonged to a Leather company that went bankrupt or out of business and I received several calls for the first three months or so and I explained to them that this number had been assigned to me as a new resident of the town and they would apologize and wouldn't bother me anymore.

 

[Ken N Tx]

When I moved in to my present house in 2004, the phone number I was assigned belonged to a Leather company that went bankrupt or out of business and I received several calls for the first three months or so and I explained to them that this number had been assigned to me as a new resident of the town and they would apologize and wouldn't bother me anymore.

I get voice mails from the previous owners sons school when he is absent, never a real person. Also got one from his doctors office!! After about a year of this they stopped...

 

[tnthomas]

When we first moved here the landline number ended with "0111", and we would get a lot of wrong number callers. That seemed to subside after a while. Now we get 1/2 dozen or more telemarketer robo-calls a day...:disillusionment:

 

[Trade]

Many years ago my parents got a new number and it had belonged to someone with major credit issues. I guess the usual 6 months out of service didn't work. The phone company changed their number again at no cost because the phone calls were frequent and very aggressive.

I've had that happen to me a couple of times. Once when I first got my burner phone and again with our landline when we moved three years ago.

Both times the numbers had previously belonged to deadbeats that owed money to various businesses. I just told them "it ain't me you're lookin for" and they eventually quit. I guess it could have been worse. At least the numbers hadn't belonged to former drug dealers that owed money to some "bad hombres".