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What do you do when your phone number belonged to someone else, and people are now looking for them but getting you?
I recently purchased a US SkypeIn number in an effort to get Google Voice working here in the UK (in the end, I simply haven’t bothered to set it all up). However it seems that my chosen number was either pre-owned or very close to someone else’s number as I keep getting voicemails (because I rarely use Skype anyway, so it’s often not running - I need to look into a hardware phone…) for someone called “Eric Mack” who, it seems, doesn’t always pay his bills. :)
Sorry Sprint et al: you’ve definitely got the wrong number…
It used to be that a phone number was a fairly safe bet - although not a certain one - but as we move towards dynamic phone services like Skype and Google Voice (and the myriad of SIP providers) I’m sure that this will become a more common problem: people newly signing up to the service(s) will get a pre-owned number with - potentially - history attached.
Which VoIP service(s) are you using, and have you had calls for previous “owners”?
