I wholeheartedly agree. I started getting debt collection calls at my office related to a former employee. It got to the point where they would call 5 and 6 times a day, and in the evening when I was trying to get work done. It was disrupting my entire business.
They told me that they "had permission" from my former employee to call here, I guess she probably gave her work number on the credit application. I told them repeatedly that it was MY phone and they didn't have MY permission to call - they just kept calling anyway.
I finally told one jerk that I was going to report him to the consumer bureaus, and so the dirtbag just put his phone on redial so it would ring and ring in my office - I'd pick it up, no one would be there and when I hung up it would start ringing a few seconds later.
These people are the absolute scum of the earth. It still doesn't keep them from sending me hundred pounds of junk mail every year with enticing offers to sign up for the latest citibank or Capital One credit card scam.
Their "right to conduct business" ends when it disrupts my right to conduct business. I am for ANY law that gets them the eff out of my face, and I would support hard jail time for these dirtbags that violate them.
I’ve had similar circumstances. When we first moved to Florida our home number had 6 cell phones attached to it. it only got resolved after I was able to get the State regulatory agency involved.
I get calls on my home phone for someone who formerly had the number. I tell the callers repeatedly that I don’t know the person they are looking for, but they continue to call...4-5 times per week. I told one caller that I was getting tired of the harassment and he said, “F&*k you!” and hung up. I got another call the next day.
It’s kinda ridiculous. It’s not as if YOU were going to pay them!
We get calls on our home phone (land line) for the person that (presumably) had our phone number about 4 years ago. They presume I’m lying when I say that person isn’t at this number.