Apologies if this is a bit off topic, but it is a homeowner issue of sorts: for the past week we have been getting collection calls (some recorded, some live) from “Ed Fund” about a “federal financial matter. They’re looking for a person who does not live here and never has… however, she just happens to have the same last name as we do. And today I got two Sallie Mae bills for her in the mail. What gives? Our number is unlisted, although in this day and age it’s probably easy for a person to dig up our name, phone and address. According to Sallie Mae, “Ed Fund” is not affiliated with them. This is two separate agencies looking for this woman, one of whom has our phone and the other of whom has our address. Should I be worried about this? I guess it’s not an identity theft issue unless someone’s using my name, but it makes me nervous to have our address and phone erroneously linked to someone else (with the same last name!) by collections agencies, plural. Did these agencies just get their wires crossed somehow, or is Miss X doing this deliberately? Could this mess up our credit rating? Any suggestions for how to proceed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apologies if this is a bit off topic, but it is a homeowner issue of sorts: for the past week we have been getting collection calls (some recorded, some live) from “Ed Fund” about a “federal financial matter. They’re looking for a person who does not live here and never has… however, she just happens…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-37248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality_of_life"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/someones-using\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Someone’s Using My Address","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/someones-using\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/someones-using\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Quality of Life","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"StuyMom"}],"creator":["StuyMom"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-10-22T15:54:30Z","datePublished":"2009-10-22T15:54:30Z","dateModified":"2009-10-26T09:51:17Z"},"rendered":"