answer:My totally innocent action was answering the phone. This happened a couple of days ago at my work. I answered as usual, giving my first name. The guy on the other end said he was looking for (so-and-so), someone who had my job a few years before me and who also happens to share my first name. I replied that this wasn’t me, but his tone immediately became aggressive, and he announced that he was with such-and-such a law firm and he had been hired to collect some debt. Again I told him that I wasn’t his guy, but he just got more insistant and, after bullying me around a bit more, told me that if I didn’t deal with him, he’d have my telephone service cut off. I told him he’d have to take that up with the University who owned the phone line. [stunned silence] “So the University owns the line now?” “Always has” ”OK, thanks” click