{"id":365,"date":"2008-03-27T20:37:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/365"},"modified":"2008-03-27T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T19:22:50","slug":"collection-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/365","title":{"rendered":"Collection Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone, maybe Julia Cow (or Crow? whatever), provided my voice mail number as her own and I started receiving messages from so called First National Collection Bureau. It would be quite amusing unless they keep throwing messages on a daily basis, including 5 second calls with a sexy breath on the other side of the phone line. I am reluctant to give them a long distance call just to try to prove I am not Julia and why would they believe? A quick googling did not show a method to leave them a message via network, so let&#8217;s get ready for more pressing attempts to collect debt.<\/p>\n<p>Update (oh they ARE annoying!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20080226180811AAIJAoP\">How do you block calls from collection agency, meant for someone else?<\/a> \/\/ Yahoo Answers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/au.answers.yahoo.com\/answers2\/frontend.php\/question?qid=20080226222354AArzonb\">How can I stop getting harassing phone calls from a collection agency looking for someone I don&#8217;t know?<\/a> \/\/ Yahoo Answers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\/default.aspx\">US National Do Not Call Registry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacycorps.com\/pages\/do-not-call.htm\">US National and State Do Not Call Lists<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The good news they provide Caller-ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=775-322-0444\">775-322-0444<\/a> so it is just easy to trash their calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone, maybe Julia Cow (or Crow? whatever), provided my voice mail number as her own and I started receiving messages from so called First National Collection Bureau. It would be quite amusing unless they keep throwing messages on a daily basis, including 5 second calls with a sexy breath on the other side of the&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/365\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35,32,34,33],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic","tag-junk","tag-phone","tag-spam","tag-voicemail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}