Mom's getting phone calls meant for me

[y_p_w]

I get a lot of calls for job recruiters where in the past I posted my resume and they're still asking years later. But I've also done stuff recently where my credit report might have been pulled and I'm getting some calls asking if I want to sell my house or take out a loan.

But the weird part is that my mother is getting some of these calls and messages and is getting a bit annoyed. They're often specific about my name and the address of my house. I'm helping her block the callers/messages but they keep on coming. We've been on the same family phone plan for a while, so that's about the only thing where I'm thinking maybe they're finding her. But I've never listed her phone number in any database. And even odder is that she's getting more of these calls/messages than I get.

So why would she be getting these? I mentioned the phone plan. But the numbers are similar since they were activated on the same day. I'd hate to think that some randos with adjacent phone numbers are getting calls or messages asking for me or listing my address.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Someone, somewhere is selling your contact info and its got your name and address and her number. Could be from years ago. Or they scraped it off the internet - are you on her deed somehow? I get calls to sell my house all the time - I assume there simply pulling from the public domain county tax system.

 

[JayhawkRoy]

Data mining (selling bad info to indiscriminate people) and incorrect AI assumptions are the cause. We screen 100% of phone calls and do not answer unless we know who they are. Our own landline is coming across as potential spam to people we call and we don't really know how to fix that, either.

That doesn't stop the calls, but we make sure we don't unintentionally validate the proper existence of the phone number. Best we can do.

 

[y_p_w]

Someone, somewhere is selling your contact info and its got your name and address and her number. Could be from years ago. Or they scraped it off the internet - are you on her deed somehow? I get calls to sell my house all the time - I assume there simply pulling from the public domain county tax system.

Sounds odd since anywhere I'd list her as a contact I would be using her home phone (currently VoIP) rather than her cell phone. But yeah I suppose there are a lot of databases that do all manner of linking and give someone her cell phone number.

 

[Hall]

We've been on the same family phone plan for a while, so that's about the only thing where I'm thinking maybe they're finding her.

Zero connection

But I've never listed her phone number in any database.

Search your full name on Google, etc. There are countless sites that will have information about you, where you live, where you lived, who your relatives are, and so on.

 

[KCJeep]

We get mail for our grown sons who have never lived with us at our current address. Data mining. I signed up for Incogni about 6 months ago and I think it helps.

 

[walterjay]

I still get mail for my mother who passed seven years ago. And she never lived at my address.

One rare occasions I will get something in the mail addressed to my deceased FIL who passed 18 years ago and never lived at my address.

 

[wwillson]

I get mail for my ex-wife at my current address. She has never even lived in the state. It's data mining and broken correlations.

 

[eljefino]

My credit report still shows my parents with whom I haven't lived with since 1998. But my parents moved in 2002 and they assume I moved with them, so I'm attached to their new address.

All because I was an authorized user on one of their credit cards. I didn't even ask to be.

 

[dbias]

If it’s iPhones there are times when things get sent to the wrong phones somehow. A few years ago my teenagers started getting each other’s texts and phone calls and even my wife too. I was not affected as at the time I was hard core android. I don’t remember exactly what happened but my oldest son figured it out and peace was restored throughout the land.

Edit to say it was something to do with Apple ID and iCloud storage conflicts so it probably doesn’t apply in your case

 

[BobsArmory]

We get mail for our grown sons who have never lived with us at our current address. Data mining. I signed up for Incogni about 6 months ago and I think it helps.

I was getting 6 to 10 spam calls per day at one point.

I did like you but used Optery Ultimate Plan. I would get calls from people wanting to buy my parents and sister house (different states) all the time. It took about 3 months but I'm seeing almost 100% reduction in spam calls. Still waiting to see if it will put a dent into political spam calls during election season. It's sad that I had to use a paid service to remove my info from the information brokers but it does work.

What's worse is the DMV, county, cities & state governments all sell your info to data brokers so you are never completely free.

 

[Hall]

If it’s iPhones there are times when things get sent to the wrong phones somehow. A few years ago my teenagers started getting each other’s texts and phone calls and even my wife too. I was not affected as at the time I was hard core android.

This is not accurate. When it comes to phone calls, this is 100% through the SIM and is strictly phone number based. When phones used physical SIM cards, you could move a SIM from an iPhone to an Android freely and the phone with the SIM installed would get calls. Swap the SIM and the other phone will now get those same calls.