WHO HAS YOUR NUMBER?
A restricted number has called my phone for the past year, it rang again yesterday. It has taken three calls to Cellular One to extract the reason why they can’t help me with this annoyance. My latest call was an eye opener because there is nothing they can do about it.
All US phone numbers go into a pool of usable numbers. This pool is updated every ninety days. Every number assigned to a phone and its use is discontinued gets put back into the pool. My number was one of those recently reactivated numbers and the guy who owned it last didn’t pay his phone bill.
I answered the restricted number yesterday because my son called me recently when using someone’s phone with a restricted number, but this call wasn’t from him, this call was from the collection idiot who bought bad debt. I don’t know who is calling and neither do I care. The automated call begins like this, “This message is for James L. Saunders…”
I am not James L. Saunders and the debt collector hasn’t found him. Cellular One will not reveal the companies name and the weasels have restricted the number. I do not feel obliged to explain who I am to whomever is calling but this is not an impasse. I was advised to install Mr. Number.
Mr. Number blocks restricted calls and gives me an option to review data concerning the incoming call before answering. It works and I love it. Hey, Saunders, pay your frigging bills!
