I received a strange phone call last week from a woman claiming to work for a New York law firm. She was looking for a woman who was supposedly my cousin, and she had my name and my ex-husbands names as people to call down here to try to locate this woman. She SAID that she used social security numbers to identify me as a cousin, which is just so bogus. I didn't ask her what numbers she had--I wasn't going to confirm or deny any she read so I didn't ask--I didn't offer her any information, and I got her name and number to call her back if I thought of anything. I ran her number through Google and it came up as a regular number for credit collection and bogus calls. You can actually report on the nature of the call on some of these sites for keeping track of annoying calls.

I ran a credit check on my accounts through one of the big three agencies that same evening, and everything looks fine. I'll run another one in a couple of months. That call was just so strange that it seemed totally like a fishing expedition from a scam artist.

SRS