When I started getting calls from debt collectors more than 10 years ago, I assured them repeatedly that they had the wrong guy.
The Steve Rosen they were looking for, who had past-due student loans, credit card debts, and was behind on child support payments, had a different middle name and lived at various times in Virginia and Ohio and who knows where else.
But the calls kept coming to me including one in the evening just a few months ago. This despite promises from the collection agent that my name and contact information would be purged from their files. I think my request to have my name cleared was simply tossed in the trash instead.
I was even blind-sided a few years ago when a county sheriffs deputy knocked on my front door. He…
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