I just love getting irate calls from my father because he got a call from someone threatening to sue me--for an amount I don't even fucking know what it belongs to! I know I owe money to allllll sorts of different places, but not that amount, and not to that creditor. It's freaking stressing me out not knowing.
ETA: Turns out it was a different company from what my dad said, and it hasn't even been sent to collections yet! So either he massively misunderstood, or somebody from that company went way beyond the scope of her job and was making threats.
Tell him to tell them to stop calling him. By law, they have to, he's not the debtor, and if he asks that they not call him anymore, they have to honor that request (been there done that when I was younger and that's what my folks did when my creditors called them, that's what I do when my son's creditors call me).
Solves that problem, but the other one, of not owing that amount to that creditor, that may take some calling and nastiness on your part (depends on how nasty you want to/can get).
http://whocalled.us/
On the left side of the page - blue bar..enter the number and hit look up. I have used this . It will ID the number and company.
Hope it helps
AP/J
Vesta, when I finally figured out how it was and called, it turned out the chick he talked to had written down that she spoke to my HUSBAND! Obviously she didn't know what she was doing.
AP, thanks for the link--that sounds super handy!