Building a coalition
I'm trying to reach people who've been repeatedly called by Canadian Bonded Credit as part of a plan focused on the proceses and proceedures of this company. The more I know, and the more of us there are involved - the more likely we'll get change.
I'd like to understand the circumstances of your calls.
If you've been called please send me an email outlining:
- Whether the calls were intended for you
- If not
- did you return any notices sent to the person they're calling for
- did you recently move into the address they called
- did you recently change your phone number
- How many calls did you receive?
- Are they still on-going?
- How would you describe the calls?
- Do you feel the government should control this type of calling?
Let me know if you'd be interested in participating in processes to control this activity as I have an number of ideas.
Please email me your story at irresponsiblecalling at gmail dot com.
posted by Peter @ 4:33 PM
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3 Comments:
Hi,
I am a collection agent working for CBCL(Canadian Bonded Credits Ltd.)
I have read through your enties regarding your efforts to change the system through legislation.
While I applaud your efforts, I hope that the information that I provide for you here may aid you in avoiding "barking up the wrong tree".
Fact #1: The system isn't perfect. If you get collection calls for someone who isn't you, you need to advise said collection agency that this isn't you.
Fact #2: Our system draws contact information from 2 credit bureaus, being Equifax and TransUnion. Equifax does not populate their credit reports with phone numbers however TransUnion does. Sayo for instance John Doe had phone # 555-1212 - and he applies for a cedit card using this phone # on his credit application. That # would remain on his TransUnion credit report until he applies for credit with another #. 5 years down the road you get this #. Guess who starts getting calls.
So it's not a malicious thing when you get these calls. It's just an error.
I hope that this may shed some light on your crusade.
Perhaps a mission to change legislation so that TransUnion can no longer post phone numbers would be a bit less misguided that your current course?
- Joe Collector
I haven't been repeatedly phoned by them, but I did receive a call from them on my cell phone (the automated calling that they do).
No matter what you do they don't stop calling. Despite telling them that the person they are looking for isn't at this phone number they keep calling. The worst part is I work until very late and usually go to bed in the 3 a.m.to 5 a.m. area and they call at 8 a.m. I answer the phone, that has woken me up every morning for two weeks, only to hear some automated message so I hang up. This last time (yesterday) I actually pushed one as explained and wait...and wait....and wait. They have a system calling me when they aren't even able to speak to me for God's sake. I'm tired of being woke up by some automated idiot from some irresponsible company who can't understand the english language. The person they want to speak to isn't at this phone number, hasn't been at this phone number since I got it a few months ago, isn't authorized to use this phone number and doesn't live here. So I guess I'll do as suggested in the blog on another page and file a complaint with the BBB and see if I can get this fixed.
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