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    8675309 Is not your number Jenny!

    Been a while since I've been here, or made a post... But what happened recently has had me so... That I had to leave a thread here.

    So we moved recently, to Illinois now and we got a new home phone number through Xfinity... And we don't have a phone physically hooked up, so the voicemails just go through to our tv screen. Well, we noticed we were getting a lot of voicemails from different companies and just assumed it was just some telemarketers. Well, enough was enough today when we got another voicemail, and listened to a few of them...

    Turns out this phone number we were given was a number for a repo company!
    I had to look up our phone number to find the website, and from there to their Facebook, to then call the number listed there (which was actually for their ADVERTISING department)... We explained to the guy on the other end what was going on, because we had near 200 voicemails all from different companies asking for repos, and this poor guy, he explained that he had absolutely no clue! They had never given him the updated number to put on the websites, and their company was near bankruptcy because no one has been calling them!

    So, hopefully he can call whoever is in charge, get hold of this division, to fix their phone number... Boy what an adventure in today.
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    Was it called Tu Tone inc?

    AkaiKitsune
    Sarcasm dear, sarcasm. I’m well aware that dealing with civilians in any capacity will skin your faith in humanity alive, then pickle anything that remains so as to watch it shrivel up into an immortal husk thus reminding you of how dead inside you now are.

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    • #3
      Props for the title, and sad that you might be old enough to remember that song. But at least you are still able to post about it

      Way back in the old days of landline only phones, I learned that our home phone number used to belong to someone who was busy skipping out on their bills and leaving town.

      We would come home from work to find our answering machine filled with angry calls from folks he owed money to. Seriously angry people who were threatening to come to our home and kick his ass over the bounced check.

      Sometimes I would call them back and tell them that they had the wrong number and that nobody here wrote that check for anything they were selling. I'd get yelled at, so I stopped doing that.

      I could tell the scammer's progress out of the state by the locations of the caller's. I was so happy when he left the state and got a new number. Or ran out of those checks. Or someone caught up with him.

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      • #4
        At least now they know it's not their deodorant or something that has caused their phones to fall silent ...

        And alas, I too am old enough to remember that song!

        My grandfather once got a call from an outraged woman who was owed money by some guy (not Grandpa). He tried to explain but she kept screaming over him, so finally, when she asked again when she was gonna get her money back, he said "Never."

        Outraged Woman: "WHAAAAT?!? WHY NOT???"

        Grandpa: "I lost it all at the casino."

        I almost felt sorry for the guy who'd actually borrowed that money ...

        You also have to know that Grandpa, even after 50 years in this country, still had a German accent you could cut with a knife. Unless the guy who borrowed that money also had a heavy German accent, I'm wondering how she didn't notice that her "debtor" sounded a bit ... different.
        Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
        ~ Mr Hero

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        • #5
          Quoth Slave to the Phone View Post
          Seriously angry people who were threatening to come to our home and kick his ass over the bounced check.
          "Please repeat that threat of physical violence. And what was your name again? I need your phone number also, please, and the company you represent." *reports them*
          "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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          • #6
            There was a beekeeper who couldn't figure out why he wasn't getting calls from people buying honey. The phone books (before internet was a big thing) had my parents' home number instead of HIS. Poor guy was happy when Mom called him to let him know that.
            If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.

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            • #7
              Quoth Slave to the Phone View Post
              Props for the title, and sad that you might be old enough to remember that song.
              Sad? Why is it sad? I say, CONGRATULATIONS to us for making it this far!

              (Yes, I remember when that song was new.)
              “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
              One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
              The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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              • #8
                That number is probably on the "do not issue" list for all phone companies in North America. I wonder if the same is true for 622-1701 - or if that one was specifically requested by certain entities with connections to either a TV/movie franchise or having a certain name.
                Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                • #9
                  622-1701

                  The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
                    622-1701

                    OMFG ...

                    I went on a hunt to find out what was so odd about this number ...

                    If you look at the letters as well as the numbers, you get NCC-1701.

                    And if you've ever watched Star Trek ...



                    Wolfie, is that what you meant? Or is there another reason this might be a "Do Not Issue" number?
                    Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
                    ~ Mr Hero

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                    • #11
                      Yes, that's exactly what I meant - and my cryptic comment was about it being requested by some entity connected with Star Trek or having "Enterprise" in their name.
                      Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Pixelated View Post
                        OMFG ...

                        I went on a hunt to find out what was so odd about this number ...

                        If you look at the letters as well as the numbers, you get NCC-1701.

                        And if you've ever watched Star Trek ...



                        Wolfie, is that what you meant? Or is there another reason this might be a "Do Not Issue" number?
                        Oh that can't be right. That's the model of the printer that I own, or at least that's what I tell everybody who calls to tell me that they have been authorized to send me printer ink.

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                        • #13
                          Are these song phone numbers also "Do not issue" numbers?

                          567-7203 (Lonesome 7-7203)

                          634-5789

                          726-5000 (Pennsylvania 6-5000)
                          "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                          • #14
                            It's not on a do not use list everywhere. I met someone that had the 867-5309 in their area. They loved having it because it was for their business and while they didn't get many calls, enough that they did pick up a few new customers because of having it.

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                            • #15
                              There's a plumbing company hereabouts that has used 867-5309. Don't know if they still do, though.
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