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Updated over 8 years ago,
Should I call back? Lady said take off list, owes nothing, but
A lady I sent a mailer to today called me at 10:00am and left a long message saying I need to quit calling her, sending her mail, texting her etc. Now, first of all I have never called or texted her and this is my first mailer to her, but that is not the point. She went on that she does not owe any money on the house, she does not have a lien, she does not owe taxes, and she is going to go to the sheriff. I just took her off any future mailing lists and did not call her back.
Later, about 4:00pm, she calls again from the courthouse. She is standing in front of the sheriff as she left a voicemail stating to stop sending her letters, calling her, etc., and she owes nothing. Now if sending junk mail was a crime UVerse would be doing life without parole, so I am not worried about the sheriff, especially since this is actually my first contact with this lady.
Anyway, I decide to look her up. Despite what she says, she does have past due taxes. I have her records right here in front of me. Should I call her and tell her?
Normally I would not even think about it but last week someone called me asking why he got all these letters (again, first time I mailed him). I looked it up and said he owed taxes. He insisted he did not, but I dug deeper and apparently he underpaid by 3 bucks 9 years ago so he showed up on the owed taxes list (seriously). He said he would look into it and called me back the next day thanking me and saying he paid the whopping 3 bucks plus interest. The guy probably has received 100 bucks worth of yellow letters due to that 3 dollars!