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Re:Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You by Natsu on Saturday September 09, 2017 @06:27PM (#15209485)
Due to getting a new cell phone number that apparently once belonged to a deadbeat I know nothing about, I got a large number of debt collector calls. I wish I had a good way to get their address and record who is calling.

The only problem is that they all ask for <name>, give me no information about themselves, and hang up right away. I blocked a lot of them, but there's no good way to make that go away.

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Re:Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You by mark212 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @07:48PM (#15209703)
The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 USC 227) says that each of these calls is worth $500 minimum in statutory damages -- and may be trebled to $1500 per call if shown to be willful. Assuming you live in the US, this is a great case and you should keep track of the calls.
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Re:Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You by Natsu on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:15PM (#15231987)
Problem is that they never identify themselves, they just say "we're looking for [xyz]" and hang up when I say I'm not them. I can't keep them on the call and the caller ID is faked to be some random local number.
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