They have no legal standing. Don’t hold your breath about getting off the collection agency’s call list. I have had one calling me for someone else for 5 years, it only stopped when I served their bonding agent in my state with no contact orders, and then only after the second time they paid the state for violating the order.

It’s crap. They say “If you are not Jane Doe, please hang up.”
Really, they have just verified that it is a valid number and they will never stop calling.

I love AT&T for having an intuitive and easy “add number to reject list”.

Just record their number(s) and don’t answer again. Or if you want to have some fun go ahead and carry on with them assuming you get a human on the line. Use your imagination. Or maybe just set the phone down let the call play out and leave the line connected. It might run up their phone bill more.

@woodcutter that only works if you don’t work the night shift. I ignored my caller when they were once a month, when they were once a week I listened all the way through to get a number to call, that is how I found out who their bonding agent in my state was. They ignored my request for removal.

That noon call was like me calling you at 3:00am. When the calls became daily is when I finally took legal action.

I hear all the time from people getting unsolicited calls. I ask them if their number is on the National Do Not Call Registry. They tell me it is, so there is some kind of loophole that lets them through apparently. Debt collectors can do it legally, so I can understand your point of wading through the prompts to finally get their number. Most people just get tired of listening and hang up and get them again later.

I’ve been receiving calls on my cell phone for the same woman for the last 8 months, even though I’ve had this phone for over a year. They’ve never called my house looking for her, just the cell, so obviously, it must’ve been her number at one point. I literally explained it to this company (IP Communications) at least 20 times, but they obviously thought that I was lying, so they kept calling. I eventually reported them to the Attorney General’s Office and thought that would be the end of it. Nope! They still call at least once a day – I just don’t answer it.
The bastards

Never ever say the word, “yes”, on a mysterious call. A recording of you saying ‘yes’ can be used to imitate your approval for fraudulent activities and identity theft.