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Comment by epalmer | Hacker News Reader

I am 64 and am approaching the date I can enroll in Medicare. I am getting 30+ robocalls a day at home and a handful at work and on my mobile phone trying to sell me medicare supplemental plans.

We just let the home phone roll to VM now. I don't answer the work phone and only my mobile phone if I know the caller. Grrrr.

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Given your age and the fact that you're posting here I'm gonna safely assume you know more things than me, but just in case you haven't given it a shot - I took a custom google voice number and almost never get unsolicited robo calls on it. The only ones I get are from a couple debt collectors that are tossing around an old hospital bill they can't decide if I need to pay or not, i.e. they got my number relatively legitimately.

Not sure if this is because of some sort of built in spam protection, or if because my area code is weird,but, worth considering?

You can request the debt collectors stop calling you and then they have to decide if they will sue you or not. If they keep calling they can be fined and you get the $$.

It's always a different debt collector. None of them have proof of debt so they're all just shitting my debt down the pyramid lol. I'm guessing the value goes down significantly each sell.

I think it's reached the "penny stock" mark by now, I haven't had a call in 8 months.

Hmm... if you make the no-contact request you can also ask them to attach that to the file if they sell it.

Is it still on your credit report? You can challenge it.

If it goes to court you can most likely have it ruled invalid as well.

Thanks. I will have to look into that.

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