Collection/loan agency question

• Glory Days

  

  Got a call this morning from Cashland asking for someone with my name(both my father and grandfather have the same name, grandfather is deceased though). I have never dealt with either Cashland or similar type place before. so i told them that. they then tried to verify my address which was wrong. they asked if i lived at some address in Massillon, which i live near youngstown(but i didnt tell them that). then they tried to verify when i was born and said it was in 1947. i was born in the 80s, father in the 50s and grandfather in the 20s, so i told them no again. after asking a few more questions they let me go. i wouldnt have thought anything of it except they called my cell phone. i guess i figure if they were calling everyone in the state with my name, wouldnt they call my landline? so that got me thinking, could this be a case of fraud or is normal for them to get ahold of cell phone numbers?
  
  
• queencitybuckeye

  Cashland is where the owner of Bucknuts got his money (true). They're going to start calling all of us claiming some sort of outstanding $12 debt.
• Angel

  I received a call like this at work not that long ago. The collection agency was looking for someone with my same name. They didn't ask me nearly as many questions as they asked you before they decided I wasn't who they needed.
  
  Found it odd that they found me where I work, but, the amount of information available on the internet is unbelievable. It makes the collections agencies jobs alot easier I would imagine.
• darbypitcher22

  

  sounds like you could be a victim of ID theft if none of that stuff matched up.... I'd check into it