[rockfan4]

A few years ago my stepdaughter ran into some money trouble, and I think she took out a payday loan. She may not have paid it back promptly, but she did pay it back, and she claims her credit report shows no outstanding debt that she is not aware of, just her student loans and her car payment.

A couple years ago she got a new phone in the state she lives in, and got off her mother's plan. I got her old phone and number since it was still under a contract. I liked the number, there were a lot of repeating digits and it was easy to remember and easy to give out. I'd occasionally get calls looking for her, and I'd take down the name and number and forward them to her and she could decide to call them back or not. Some would be from debt collectors, usually robot calls.

Earlier this year I gave up that number, gave up the landline, and ported the landline number to my cell phone. Now I'm getting debt collection calls for her on that number. How the heck did they do that? Did the cell phone provider give them the new number? Can I sue them for harassment? Report them to the FCC?

To be clear, she's never lived at my house, she's stayed a couple days over the holidays, but her legal address has never been here. If I really thought they were legit calls they wouldn't be from a robot, and they wouldn't call from different numbers. Block one and they call from another.