Actually I reached a consumer advocate group here locally, they said that it was unlikely that my phone number was actually on this person's credit report. It was more likely that it was attached to the "file" that these collectors had, and as it was sold from one collector to another the calls...
For the past year on and off I get collection calls for a person who has a VERY similar name, first name and middle initial the same, last name spelled different by one letter.
This week I got one of the collectors to disclose that my home phone number is listed on the "deadbeat's" credit...