For the past 3 weeks or do I’ve been getting intermittent messages on my voicemail from a woman, saying she had a business matter she needed to discuss with me and leaving her number. No details, no company name, and she was looking for “Danny” Dickinson. I do not go by Danny, so I knew it was bullshit. I assumed this was a telemarketing message, like the eastern European movers who leave long rambling messages. “Ja, this is Jarmusch. We have the biiiiiig truck and the loooooow prices. We can move the biiiiiig items, like the acquarium…”

Last week the calls got more frequent. I googled the phone number and the name that kept coming up was Collect Com Credit. Yoicks! A collection agency! That doesn’t seem right; I’m not the type to avoid debt. Still, now I was worried that there some identity theft going on. I played phone tag with the caller over the weekend and finally got in touch today. She told me there was an American Express account with a $3,300 (!) balance in the name Danny Dickinson. I told her it wasn’t mine, that I barely used the Amex I once had and formally closed the account ages ago. She asked for my birthdate, and it didn’t match with the person she was looking for. She apologized for the scare and thanked me.

On an unrelated note, I just ordered a copy of my credit history.

[tags]overdue balance, credit report, collect com[/tags]