XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net   
      
   On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:33:00 -0400, nospam wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   >  ry?id=24624940>   
      
   I found it easier to get the number changed out, thanks.   
   Your hypothetical "$1500 per call" Π in the sky scheme, though? No, thanks.   
      
   Cheers, -- tlvp   
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