Sep 20, 2009
I had quite an upsetting call. The first call I got, I said my battery was about to die, and she hung up on me. I got two missed calls from a similar number (area code & first 3 digits). Today, my friend answered my phone because I was driving. She asked my friend if she was my secretary, and told her she wasn't getting paid enough. I thought it was my friend calling, and being snarky, so when the friend in the car asked if that was who it was, she said yeah! I then told her about the football game we were going to, and if she was going to watch it (she said ok), and after ~3 minutes, she finally says this isn't your friend. I couldn't believe it!
She started laughing, and said she gets paid for her time, so she decided to listen! I asked her what company she worked for and how they got my number. Like the posts above, she said Publishers' Headquarters, and gave me the run-around on removing my phone number. When she read my address to me, I was really worried, and asked her to delete all the information, at which she got really snippy, and said if she couldn't call me, why would it matter? I yelled at her, and my friend in the car is yelling about calling her lawyer, so I missed most of the rest, but I just hung up on her. A minute later, I get an incoming call from a private number, which I ignored. I was really freaked out by the whole experience.