Real Life MMD: Should I help debt agency find colleague?

Spatchelor

YES, YES, YES! Absolutely. People in debt like your colleague have caused the crisis in the UK we have today. They have spent money they don't have and now are avoiding paying it back - that's stealing. The debt collection agency is just trying to get the money back that's owed - why does that make them bad? Yes they also have a living to make. Why does everyone seem to want to protect a thief?

Marco12452

Explain that you have informed them on numerous occasions of the fact this is no longer the contact number for the person they are chasing and ask for them to cease calling or else you wil make a complaint to the authorities. If it continues make the same request in writing telling them you are about to complain to their trade body and the police for harrasment.

JayD

What a strange dilemma!
Do you really need to ask advice on this?
I would have thought it is pretty obvious that it is none of your business! You are only receiving these calls because your extension numbers got changed.

I agree totally with Pmarmalade i.e.
"Stop fielding their calls. Tell them she's not on this number now and to stop calling it. After that I'd just start saying that sharply and hanging up. Don't get yourself involved."

joehoover

jgriggle wrote: »

I usually can't stand people who are rude to telesales folk as they're just doing their job.

I get about 15 calls a day from telesales, and teh rudeness they give out to me when they are trying to sell me soemthing is shocking. They've been rude, slammed the phone down on me in mid-sentence.

I told one I wasn't interested in moving telephone providers and they launched into a tirade about we must be stupid for not wanting to save money.

joehoover

Spatchelor wrote: »

YES, YES, YES! Absolutely. People in debt like your colleague have caused the crisis in the UK we have today. They have spent money they don't have and now are avoiding paying it back - that's stealing. The debt collection agency is just trying to get the money back that's owed - why does that make them bad? Yes they also have a living to make. Why does everyone seem to want to protect a thief?

What rubbish! It makes them bad if they are doing it via methods they are not supposed to, if they are bothering people with no connection of the debt and revealing their debt to other people, this is not allowed.

There are methods they should be following but are being unprofessional and lazy by not following them.

Every time I move house I get saddled with problems from prevous tenants and agencies try blaming me despite me proving when I moved in, yet they don't want to take that off their file and continue to harrass me when it wasn't my debt, this happens a hell of a lot

marich

Live and let live !

Nicksmum

I am amazed how harsh some of you are being towards debt collectors,my best mate works for a debt collecting agency and she gets abuse down the phone every day for very little pay.The upshot is that in the main the people she deals with owe money that they have spent and are trying to duck out of paying it back, plus they think they have the right to hurl abuse at someone who is only trying to do their job.You would be amazed at the amount of people who spend a small fortune on drinking & smoking yet cant (or wont) afford to pay their debts!:mad:

78terrier

Decision tree. Start with Question 1:

1) Has this other person ever done anything to offend you?
No = Don't give the company her details.
Yes = Proceed to question 2.

2) If you pass on her details, do you think anybody will find out that it was you who did it?
No = Pass on her details to the debt collection agency.
Yes = Proceed to Question 3

3) Are you prepared for the fall-out of people knowing you grassed her up?
Yes = Pass on her details to the debt collection agency.
No = Keep schtum.

BobbinAlong

As someone whose job involves guardianship of personal data, rule 1 is never give out information. Always take the callers details and pass it on so the person sought can chose whether to respond or not.
We have had ex boyfriends asking for phone numbers when the girl had left them because of violence - giving that phone number could have put a life at risk!
Anyone could pose as a debt collector on the phone.
Good luck with stopping the repeated calls. Be professional in any dealings with them and firm.

Squire_Fulwood

NEVER give out someone else's contact details. If you know someone then you can always say to the caller, "Give me 'your' phone number and I will pass it on. If they want to call you back they will".
If you don't know the person they are interested in then just say so.

The circumstances where I leaned how valuable this procedure was ....was when a newspaper was investigating a story and got the wrong bloke (me). They phoned someone I knew and asked for my phone number. He said, "No no no, you give me your number and if he wants to phone you he will. I was not the person the paper wanted but if I had been I would not have given him any team points for handing out my contact details.