phone calls for some idiot who gave out my number!!!

metalfury

Assuming that she has a similar number (swapping last couple of digits or something)

Aren't the first few digits of a mobile number linked to the service provider? e.g. 07905 could be Vodafone?

If so couldn't you go back to the phone provider and say that they may have a customer that is using your number fraudulantly, giving them her name and asking them to sort it out?

I'd also glean as much information out of each call as possible and go down the 192.com route.

sazzie_sue

Hi,

I work for a mobile company and things can be done, there talking crap if they say they cant help. We have an unwanted calls department where any phone number can be added against your number on the database and be blocked.

Very hard to do with numbers that are withheld due to certain legislations and data proteaction, these can only be traced in extreme cases of bullying or harrasment but anyone who calls and the number shows, take note and contact ur mobile provider, 1 click on a computer and no more calls.

If u need ne further info please PM

SSx

JohalaReewi

missymugwump wrote: »

One from payday loans re his application 2nd Feb 2010
One from Yesloans UK re his application 20th Feb 2010


Hes doing my head in and I don't even know him

My GF gets these texts all the time and they are just some scam company trying to get you to buy their ID protection.

epatolles

sazzie_sue wrote: »

Hi,

I work for a mobile company and things can be done, there talking crap if they say they cant help. We have an unwanted calls department where any phone number can be added against your number on the database and be blocked.

Very hard to do with numbers that are withheld due to certain legislations and data proteaction, these can only be traced in extreme cases of bullying or harrasment but anyone who calls and the number shows, take note and contact ur mobile provider, 1 click on a computer and no more calls.

If u need ne further info please PM

SSx

thanks but theres loads! i seriously think SHE is giving the number out because theres too many recent things for her to be mistaking the number etc...

alison999

Why not try and get a laugh out of it at least, wind a few of these crediotrs up? It might not be the most respectful thing to do but it might make it less painful for you

missymugwump

JohalaReewi wrote: »

My GF gets these texts all the time and they are just some scam company trying to get you to buy their ID protection.

Yeah but I am receiving phone calls too always different people and new recent applications
Mr Dennis Nelson is really driving me nuts

frannyann

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=741653&highlight=

The master of dealing with phone calls, please don't blame me when you use up 4 hours of your life and you need oxygen from laughing too much!!

hairy_g

zincoxide was brilliant, pity he hasn't posted in a while.I remember reading the Debitas thread, couldn't stop laughing...
here are some more of his posts:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=981875
read first post and number 16.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1465859&highlight=

BudgetBlonde

I have a similar problem with my landline, which I have had since June last year. I keep getting calls (a couple each week) for a Melissa Higgins who apparently owes money to Brighthouse and several other places. I even had one quiz me about whether I could get a message to her, am I a friend, do I know her, do I have an address? I usually just ask them to remove the number but I suppose if I really WAS Melissa I could easily say that I wasn't.:think:
It would be a pain to change the number now with everyone I have given it out to. I just live with it.

FOXGLOVE_2

missymugwump wrote: »

I began getting calls for a Mr Dennis Nielsen or Nelson not sure how they spell it,they won't tell me data protection etc...
All from debt collectors,his mortgage company,baliffs etc..
I fended them off for months explaining it was no longer his number (very annoying when your in meetings etc)

By this point my company had spent hundreds on business cards,headed paper,compliment slips etc.. with my number on
So no chance of changing it

All went quiet for 2 months

Then last month I start getting new calls saying Dennis has been applying for financial products,credit etc... and is using my mobile number as his current number

I'm livid but Vodafone say they can't help me :-(

Lol Google Dennis Nilson if you don't get this joke...

I'm in a similar situation to OP, been getting calls for over a year on and off for Mrs McKay. Debt collectors, banks etc, usual story.

This is a landline with Virgin Media, whom I have spoken to and can't really do anything.

Thing is, I've tracked down Mrs McKay and now give out her number to the people who call.

And if they keep phoning?

Well, I keep a whistle next to the phone and....