Hello, I've been contacted by parties who claim to be some kind of attorney's office about a bill I owe to Discover. First off, when they called, they didn't call me, they called my parents house and instead of leave a message for me, the man on the phone decided to give every last scrap of information he could to my father (who is not on the account nor has anything to do with it), even after he told this man numerous times he was not the person he was looking for. This included my SS#, the amount of the debt, and how long it had been since they had last recieved payment (which was wrong)
I live away from home for months on end and when I did reutrn home a few weeks ago, I called the company on this issue and made it known I did not appreciate them handing out my personal information, to anybody. What I got then was alot of back tracking, saying that they had the account listed under a Richard Andrew,which is backwards, that they thought it was some kind of fraud, and the guy just generally stuttered until I got sick of listening to him and told him I wanted to talk to my father and I would call back.
I never did becuase 2 days later I was called again( at 8am on a Sat.) by someone else who was decidedly rude and I told them I was already speaking to someone on the matter and that I would deal with them personally. I have, since then, recieved 2 more calls from different people and I have not heard another whisper out of the man who was supposed to be talking to me.
It's getting very frustrating trying to deal with these people. I'm not sure wether the guy's little song and dance about how they thought it was a fraud case, and apparently had my name in the computer incorrectly(backwards). So far I've heard nothing about payment options, I don't have an address for them , I've never seen a scrap of paper with a name or amount on it, and their calls are starting to get rude. I'm at my wits end as to what to do with these idiots.
Can anyone gime me some advice here?
I live away from home for months on end and when I did reutrn home a few weeks ago, I called the company on this issue and made it known I did not appreciate them handing out my personal information, to anybody. What I got then was alot of back tracking, saying that they had the account listed under a Richard Andrew,which is backwards, that they thought it was some kind of fraud, and the guy just generally stuttered until I got sick of listening to him and told him I wanted to talk to my father and I would call back.
I never did becuase 2 days later I was called again( at 8am on a Sat.) by someone else who was decidedly rude and I told them I was already speaking to someone on the matter and that I would deal with them personally. I have, since then, recieved 2 more calls from different people and I have not heard another whisper out of the man who was supposed to be talking to me.
It's getting very frustrating trying to deal with these people. I'm not sure wether the guy's little song and dance about how they thought it was a fraud case, and apparently had my name in the computer incorrectly(backwards). So far I've heard nothing about payment options, I don't have an address for them , I've never seen a scrap of paper with a name or amount on it, and their calls are starting to get rude. I'm at my wits end as to what to do with these idiots.
Can anyone gime me some advice here?
I think you are correct about the FDCPA fine as well.