Compound effects

[Sliceanddice]

2 years ago my father died. And I keep getting calls from supposed lawyers offices, who can't Google let alone contact social security, about him.

School started last Monday.

My cousin's child died last night.

Financial stress.

My period ( in all fairness I don't have one often and sometimes have a hard time dealing with the hormone flood).

Yeah I broke down crying in class.

Great day

[apocolypse101]

Awww. *Gives ALL the hugs and baked goods, bacon, and candy*

That sucks. Not nearly on the level of your's, but my godfather, who lived with my maternal grandmother and who I thought of as my grandfather since my actual maternal grandfather died before I was born, died about two years ago.

I get a call on my cell phone pretty much weekly for a "Nathan Robinson" (Not me). Each time I get one, I tell the person on the other end, who vary from criminal lawyers to telemarketers to what I think was a collections agency, that I am not him, I've never known anyone with that name, and to please stop calling me. Each time they say that they will take that name-number combination off their lists, but I don't think that they do.

[Sliceanddice]

It's supposed lawyers offices that bug me. You have to do a lot of research to find people to subpoena them, how is Google or Social Security not something you check with? Entering my dad's name into Google pulls up his obit first thing!

[apocolypse101]

It's supposed lawyers offices that bug me. You have to do a lot of research to find people to subpoena them, how is Google or Social Security not something you check with? Entering my dad's name into Google pulls up his obit first thing!

If you don't mind me asking, why are they attempting to subpoena him?

[Ironclad Alibi]

If you don't mind me asking, why are they attempting to subpoena him?

They figure people don't like to get subpoenas so if you pay them a lot of money they'll forget all about it.

I got the IRS call today. It sounded like a computer generated robot voice.

[apocolypse101]

They figure people don't like to get subpoenas so if you pay them a lot of money they'll forget all about it.

I got the IRS call today. It sounded like a computer generated robot voice.

I utterly LOATHE those scammers. I thought that Sliceanddice was being called by ACTUAL lawyers though.

[Mental_Mouse]

The IRS does not appreciate scammers impersonating them... IIRC their website has a number to call and report the schmucks..

[Sliceanddice]

Both are possible, my father wasn't what you call an upstanding man, and the calls aren't always computer generated, sometimes it's an obvious prerecorded voice.

When my father died he had been in the middle of a lawsuit, him the plaintiff, regarding a ever nasty car accident where someone totaled his parked (in a handicap spot no less making very impressive) car while he was loading groceries causing a hospital visit for a shattered femur. It could for that, or he could have decided to commit another crime, pissed someone off, or its scammers who realise they are trying to get blood from a stone who was also a scammer.

I've received calls for a while where it was hey we need to send you this fax but can't (http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...=117690&page=2) but these people actually leave voicemails. But one time the call number was a private number leading me to a less than thrilled woman.

[taxguykarl]

The IRS does not appreciate scammers impersonating them... IIRC their website has a number to call and report the schmucks..

Here you go.