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There is a guy who thinks he owns my mobile number. It generates all sort of nuisances for me (quotes for insurance) but also for him (his bank is now sending m

by cm2187 7y ago

There is a guy who thinks he owns my mobile number. It generates all sort of nuisances for me (quotes for insurance) but also for him (his bank is now sending me notifications by txt). I called that bank to let them know but they did nothing about it...

2rsf 7y ago
> think what do you mean by "think" ? I understand that mishaps can happen when numbers are canceled and moved to another person, but the old number is still registered in certain places, but why would someone want someone's else number ?
- cm2187 7y ago
  I am not suggesting it is voluntary but no, it is not a matter of an old number. I had this number for over 13 years and the problem only started to occur 2-3 years ago.
  - anonymfus 7y ago
    Is this person from the same country as you? If not, may be the problem is morons who clip phone numbers to 32 bit integers.
    - cm2187 7y ago
      It looks like it is (he opened a UK bank account with my number).
- Spooky23 7y ago
  A friend went through this type of situation. What happened in her case is that somebody with a bad credit history used to use her cellphone number years ago. When my friend linked her CVS account to her mobile phone, CVS sells each interaction to various parties. There's a whole business where certain debt collectors will buy almost aged out debt for $0.01 on the dollar, "make contact with the debtor" and once that happens, they can resell the debt for $0.05 on the dollar. All of the sudden she started getting messages that she won cars, etc. All attempting to establish contact. Because companies buy and mix data from different sources, it's easy for companies to inject bad data, as they assume that certain types of data are highly reliable.
vegardx 7y ago
I ordered pizza to another guy that shares almost the exact same phone number as me, but the kicker is that we've both managed to choose the same PIN-number to log in. I noticed after placing the order that the delivery address was half way across the country. Called the pizza place and it took them quite some time to understand what could have gone wrong. I had, after all, logged in, and was still logged in. We had a good laugh when we figured it out. Sales rep called the guy up, but I don't think he cancelled the pizza. So free pizza, I guess.
- XJ6 7y ago
  Would you mind adding context here, what's a PIN number in the context of pizza delivery?
  - tclancy 7y ago
    1234
    - mxuribe 7y ago
      Uh oh, i guess i need to change the combination for the lock on my luggage! :-)
      - beobab 7y ago
        And you'd better do it with ludicrous speed. ;)
        mxuribe 7y ago
        No, no, they've gone to plaid! :-)
      - JohnFen 7y ago
        Whew! I dodged a bullet there. My luggage combination is 1111!
    - danillonunes 7y ago
lscotte 7y ago
I was getting fraud alerts via SMS for somebody elses bank account for quite awhile. I always replied "NO" - I did not make the charge in question, which is true. Eventually I guess they got tired of getting their card locked or realized the contact info was wrong.
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JohnFen 7y ago
Welcome to my world! My real name is extremely common, and each time I've been assigned a new phone number, I get calls for months (sometimes years) from private investigators, collection agencies, etc., looking for someone else who shares my name.

by cm2187 7y ago

2rsf 7y ago

> think what do you mean by "think" ? I understand that mishaps can happen when numbers are canceled and moved to another person, but the old number is still registered in certain places, but why would someone want someone's else number ?

cm2187 7y ago
I am not suggesting it is voluntary but no, it is not a matter of an old number. I had this number for over 13 years and the problem only started to occur 2-3 years ago.
- anonymfus 7y ago
  Is this person from the same country as you? If not, may be the problem is morons who clip phone numbers to 32 bit integers.
  - cm2187 7y ago
    It looks like it is (he opened a UK bank account with my number).
Spooky23 7y ago
A friend went through this type of situation. What happened in her case is that somebody with a bad credit history used to use her cellphone number years ago. When my friend linked her CVS account to her mobile phone, CVS sells each interaction to various parties. There's a whole business where certain debt collectors will buy almost aged out debt for $0.01 on the dollar, "make contact with the debtor" and once that happens, they can resell the debt for $0.05 on the dollar. All of the sudden she started getting messages that she won cars, etc. All attempting to establish contact. Because companies buy and mix data from different sources, it's easy for companies to inject bad data, as they assume that certain types of data are highly reliable.

vegardx 7y ago

I ordered pizza to another guy that shares almost the exact same phone number as me, but the kicker is that we've both managed to choose the same PIN-number to log in. I noticed after placing the order that the delivery address was half way across the country. Called the pizza place and it took them quite some time to understand what could have gone wrong. I had, after all, logged in, and was still logged in. We had a good laugh when we figured it out. Sales rep called the guy up, but I don't think he cancelled the pizza. So free pizza, I guess.

XJ6 7y ago
Would you mind adding context here, what's a PIN number in the context of pizza delivery?
- tclancy 7y ago
  1234
  - mxuribe 7y ago
    Uh oh, i guess i need to change the combination for the lock on my luggage! :-)
    - beobab 7y ago
      And you'd better do it with ludicrous speed. ;)
      - mxuribe 7y ago
        No, no, they've gone to plaid! :-)
    - JohnFen 7y ago
      Whew! I dodged a bullet there. My luggage combination is 1111!
  - danillonunes 7y ago

lscotte 7y ago

I was getting fraud alerts via SMS for somebody elses bank account for quite awhile. I always replied "NO" - I did not make the charge in question, which is true. Eventually I guess they got tired of getting their card locked or realized the contact info was wrong.

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JohnFen 7y ago

Welcome to my world! My real name is extremely common, and each time I've been assigned a new phone number, I get calls for months (sometimes years) from private investigators, collection agencies, etc., looking for someone else who shares my name.