XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article <16fbgwgpli4sk$.1li8rrap3v2qg.dlg@40tude.net>, tlvp   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   > >  I've gotten two wrong numbers too, on this Skype number,   
   > > which looks like a standard Baltimore phone number. .   One was an   
   > > auto-detailer asking if   
   >   
   > Every time some outfit assigns you a new phone number, that number was   
   > taken from a pool of numbers taken out of service. Clearly one should   
   > expect that infrequent correspondents with the prior subscriber at that   
   > number may be unaware the number has "changed hands". In the worst cases   
   > (and this has happened to me), it's a number formerly held by a serial   
   > deadbeat, whose creditors will be calling daily, several of them per day,   
   > until you get the line switched out for another number.   
      
   it's much easier to block the calls, plus a collection agency *must*   
   stop calling if you tell them to stop (even when you're the deadbeat).   
      
   you may also be able to recover as much as $1500 per call if calls   
   continue.   
      
      
      
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