telephone harrassement but for somebodyelse

[zydeco]

As the title suggests I've been getting landline calls for the last 6 months from various debt collectors asking for a certain Mr. Christopher Nab.

 

I acquired my phone number about 10 months ago so according to the phone provider this number was not used for at least 18 months previous, so it's over 2 years since Chris had this number.

 

The poor debt collectors don't seem to be able to understand that people change their numbers so I have to educate them. I now know his full name and address that he was using over 2 years ago because they've told me!! DPA??

 

Most recently I've had robbersway and muckyhall phoning but here's the twist.

In the last 2 days I've had calls asking for Chris from PPI claim companies and 1 call from somebody called Mell wanting to talk to his mate chris from mobile no. 07747016908 and calls from a company called Consumer claims agency, no. 0160647807 and most recently a call from BPI Claims who hung up when I queried the name.

 

The best one was tonight from a withheld number who spent 8 minutes talking to somebody else and sounded like they were taking remote access on somebodies PC.

So am I just unfortunate in having a popular number or are the dca's using a different tactic and giving the contact phone numbers to ppi companies in the hope that the alleged debtor will bite, thinking there's some money coming back?

( not to mention that each call is usually preceded by at l;east 2 silent calls )