4 or 5 years ago I started getting calls on my cell phone looking for a woman. Turns out she had kited a bunch of hot checks in the area. It also turned out that she had my cell # printed on her checks.I had several long chats with different business owners and 3 different county sheriff's offices. Turned out that I had a tenuous, peripheral association with the woman through a couple of loosely affiliated motorcycle associations.
I did my civic duty and provided a location for her to the county sheriff in the county she lived in.
My stepdaughter has gotten 19 calls from Chrysler Collections since the 19th, up until yesterday (well, I suppose it's technically the day before yesterday now...), on her cell phone. They've called while she's at school, and gotten her voicemail message which she recorded when she first got that phone several years ago; they've called her when she's at home and able to pick up, as well. They called FOUR TIMES on the 27th alone, and they're using two different numbers to do it.
Oh, this is pertinent - Alison, my stepdaughter, turns thirteen next month and has a name nothing like that of the woman they've been asking for.
They've ignored her voicemail message, in which she states her name clearly (well, she had a little trouble pronouncing the letter 'r' back then) and is very obviously a small child - she was not yet ten when she recorded it. They've ignored her talking to them and telling them that she's not the person they're looking for. They've ignored her father the lawyer who told them she's not the person they're looking for, and who's paying for the cell minutes they're burning by harassing her. They've ignored me telling them she's a 12 year old girl who doesn't own a car or have credit, and to remove her phone number from their records.
They have apparently taken her mother's advice and stopped calling - SHE told them that not only is Alison a 12 year old, but that she was reporting their record of harassment - dates and times from her phone - to Chrysler and to the Better Business Bureau, and if they STILL didn't knock it off, that legal action would ensue.
Alison's cell phone hasn't rung once today (well, yesterday).