Apr 12, 2008
I received a call this morning saying that I better call back by 11am or else. I had been asleep and my son awakened me bec he thought it was urgent that I did call back. The woman who answered the phone had no idea that I'd been called and asked for bits of information, my ssn, my address, my name. When I refused to tell her anything until she told me the nature of the business, she said Ma'am, if we called you, you are being sued or your check is about to be garnished bec of a judgement entered against you. If you do not want to give me your number have your attorney call us back. I said that I wanted to know right now what they were talking about. She could find nothibng but transferred me to several numbers of people who did not know I'd even been called. I did give my name but refused to give my ssn until they said if you are being sued and dont find out about it in time you won't be able to fight it. I couldn 't imagine who/what it could be so I asked for the ssn of the person they referenced. The number was off by one digit, so I figured that they had mistyped the numbers. I informed that they'd BETTER NOT use my ssn erroneously and cause me any kind of problem because I was recording their name and number to check to make sure they didn't. He said he thought that maybe someone had given my name as a reference at one time and that is why they asked for me. I hope they don't try to steal my identity, rob my bank account or garnish my check. I work for the government and they'd BETTER NOT!!! Look out, everyone!!
HOw can we stop them from targeting the weaker of us???