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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 01:27:49 PDT
From: Linc Madison <linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: I've Moved and Old MCI Calling Card Still Works
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In article <telecom11.250.8@eecs.nwu.edu> Jonathan Whticomb writes:

> I wouldn't feel too safe about having moved.  Unless you changed your
> name and social security number, they will find you.
> (Ve have Vays...). :^)

A neighbor in my apartment complex recently moved into the apartment
vacated by someone who apparently wasn't on very good terms with one
of her creditors, namely Discover Card.  Well, it happens that the new
resident also has a Discover Card, so when he changed his address,
they started making harassing phone calls to him, demanding to know
where the former resident was.  He's never met her, has no idea who or
where she is, and has no connection to her at all, but Discover
continues to call him every few days insisting that he must have some
idea.

This is, for one thing, part of the reason I never give my phone
number to my credit card creditors.


Linc Madison  =  linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu