For the past couple weeks I have been getting calls to my cell phone from an 877 number. If I answered, it would click and disconnect me almost immediately, so I just resorted to sending it straight to voicemail. They wouldn’t call daily—usually every couple days, and usually at odd late hours like 8:30pm. I googled the phone number and discovered that other people have been harrassed by this number as well, and that it seemed to belong to a credit agency who acted somewhat shadily toward people who dialed the number displayed on their Caller ID to see who it was and who were actually able to obtain a live person.

So, I lamented that I would probably be harrassed indefinitely, but that at least it wasn’t too often. It wasn’t annoying enough to consider changing my number—especially considering that since I have no credit problems and there’s no reason for this company to contact me, that they probably randomly had my number in their system, and might also possibly randomly have any new number I might get in their system too. Since any new number I would get would’ve been previously owned by someone else, there’s no knowing what kind of people have that number.

But last night when I got the call again (yes, they apparently also call on weekends), I decided to answer by saying “Hola” instead of “Hello” and was then greeted with a prompt to wait to be connected to a representative. No idea if it was the language thing or just coincidence, but it was the first time I heard this message. So, I waited, so that I could hopefully put a stop to it. When the person came on, they decided to forgo any social courtesies like “hello” or “good day” “or may I speak with” and simply pronounced the name they were looking for.

Who were they looking for? That lovable scamp, Dennis Hughes, who owned my number YEARS ago, and who either hasn’t properly updated all records, or else uses his old number on purpose on things where he doesn’t want to get harrassed. I thought I had heard the last of him a long time ago, but I guess I was wrong. Still, the fact that I was able to tell the lady “sorry, he hasn’t had this number for years” makes me hopeful that I at least got this cell phone number crossed off one more collections-type agency. Down with shady people!

Posted at 1:51 PM |

man! this guy’s past is still haunting you?
amazing!

1 | Posted by: Leonieke on September 10, 2007 @ 2:29 PM

just thought — might be interesting to make a google-bomb out of darling Dennis ;)

2 | Posted by: Leonieke on September 10, 2007 @ 2:30 PM