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OldBaldy1701E

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5. One thing you should know.

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Reply #4)

Wed May 7, 2025, 07:26 AM

May 7

Collections agencies like to try numbers to see if they are active and if they go to whom they are looking for. If you answer, that tells them that it is you and the number is good.

There are other agencies that use this practice as well. Which is why I seldom answer any number I do not recognize or have been warned to expect.

They own us enough. Not going to make it easier for them.

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Got a call and Caller ID said possible spam. [View all] multigraincracker May 6 OP

Good one. Chipper Chat May 6 #1

Old, retired and bored. multigraincracker May 6 #2

if i dont know the number , i just send it to answerbone AllaN01Bear May 6 #3

been getting wrong number calls lately. today i picked up on an AllaN01Bear May 6 #4

One thing you should know. OldBaldy1701E May 7 #5

i am very suspicious of anything on the phone AllaN01Bear May 7 #7

let it ring thru to voice message onethatcares May 7 #6