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Accounts Payable, Accounts Openable
R. Alex Whitlock
the fellow that lived here before me gets a lot of mail. Most of them from money institutions.
What's disturbing is that 60% of them are from collection agencies. Since collection agencies don't generally send care letters, I would imagine it's because he has borrowed money in the past and has not yet paid back the money that he owes.
The remaining 40% are from credit card companies and are quite obviously attempts to get this fellow to borrow money from them.
Observations
Yeah... the fella that used to have my phone number had the same problem.
Since I like to jack around with sales people, sometimes I'll even pretend to be the wrong person if they ask for Joe Smith instead of Chris Elam.
I did that one time to a jovial-sounding fella. His tone got immediately nasty, and he informed me that he was really from a collection agency. I had a heckuva time convincing him that I wasn't his target. I don't think I really did convince him of that, because they kept calling back for a while.
Lesson learned.
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