Debt Collectors Who Don’t Believe They Have the Wrong Number
For the past week, I’ve been getting daily messages on my answering machine for Shawn Connely. Now, I don’t know who Shawn Connely is, but he hasn’t had this phone number for at least two and a half years.
My husband was off work Friday, and answered the phone. The woman asked for Shawn, and my husband’s name is John. So, John thought it was for him for a minute, and then realized they wanted Shawn. So he politely told them they had the wrong number.
Well, I took off work on Monday, and my stepson answered the phone. He told them that John wasn’t here, could he take a message? Well, my stepson is not the best at message taking, and I didn’t see why whoever it was couldn’t talk to me, so I made him give me the phone. The woman asked to speak to Shawn Connely (my stepson had misheard the name). I told her she has the wrong number, and she’s like, “So there’s no one named Shawn Connely at this residence?” No, lady! Then, she has the nerve to ask me if I know Shawn. At this point, I started getting snippy with her and asked if this was a debt collector. Of course, they aren’t allowed to say. She just said that this was (insert generic corporate-sounding company name here).
This is not the first experience I’ve had with debt collectors calling for someone who used to have our phone number, but these people obviously think we’re lying because we keep thinking they’re asking for John. I’m off work again today, and if they call me, I am going to go off on them!
