Dear Former Owner of 908-xxx-xxxx (also known as my recently acquired iPhone number):
Maybe you didn’t mean to skip out on what seems to be all of the bills you ever had. I’m not judging. But can you do me a huge favor and tell the six collectors who phone me (formerly you) regularly that we are not the same person? Can you tell them that a phone number is not a Social Security number — that it actually can have multiple owners in a lifetime? They seem to be mystified by this. They think I have created an elaborate ruse to get out of my (your) payment obligations.
It started out as annoying. Now it’s really getting under my skin.
You don’t know me but maybe you can make it stop and just call these guys back. I don’t care if you pay them or not — just tell them that you are you and I am me, and that a common phone number over time does not bind us by blood or finances.
Thanks so much. Now I’m going back to my 917 area code life.
I’m still getting calls for Margaret. And I’ve had my phone for at least 6 years. LMK if you figure it out.
I think Margaret changed her name and moved onto my phone number in the last six years.