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> 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 r

• 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.