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Topic: How do they do this?
hikerchick Joined Sat 12/22/07 Posts: 13206	Wed 03/26/08 07:34 PM
I lived with a guy back in the '80s. We never married. After I left him, I moved 3 or 4 times within the same state (New Jersey); got married; got divorced; moved to CT; moved around there a couple of times; moved to PA. I just got a call from an attorney's office looking for him. How they heck did they track me down? We never owned any property together, had any shared credit cards; nothing. Weird. I have no idea where he is.

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Wed 03/26/08 07:35 PM
Thats weird

PATSFAN Joined Mon 12/10/07 Posts: 42782	Wed 03/26/08 07:36 PM
These days, there is no privacy

avalon_55 Joined Fri 03/21/08 Posts: 19	Wed 03/26/08 07:37 PM
Oh believe me they have ways

pennyg281 Joined Thu 11/08/07 Posts: 4348	Wed 03/26/08 07:38 PM
They check computerxs for people that were at the same address, use phone bills, electric bills,old leases etc... and when they find you they call looking for them. I've had that happen 2.

HMontana Joined Thu 12/20/07 Posts: 5037	Wed 03/26/08 07:38 PM
Quit being a hussy, and you'll have no worries.

mac26 Joined Tue 01/15/08 Posts: 134	Wed 03/26/08 07:38 PM
wow that is strange......

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Wed 03/26/08 07:38 PM
I lived with a guy back in the '80s. We never married. After I left him, I moved 3 or 4 times within the same state (New Jersey); got married; got divorced; moved to CT; moved around there a couple of times; moved to PA. I just got a call from an attorney's office looking for him. How they heck did they track me down? We never owned any property together, had any shared credit cards; nothing. Weird. I have no idea where he is. They probably saw that you two lived together (or atleast had the same mailing address), and just tracked bills from there. Apparently he did a better job of hiding than you did.

smilingeyes_976 Joined Fri 11/17/06 Posts: 1152	Wed 03/26/08 07:38 PM
yep... called lexus nexus... i used to be very good at it... but collections wasnt my cup of tea

ddn122 Joined Mon 11/05/07 Posts: 12855	Wed 03/26/08 07:39 PM
big brother is always watching

hikerchick Joined Sat 12/22/07 Posts: 13206	Wed 03/26/08 07:40 PM
Quit being a hussy, and you'll have no worries. I have keep trying them out, to see if I can find the right fit.

iam4u Joined Fri 10/13/06 Posts: 30096	Wed 03/26/08 07:40 PM
One word,,,,,,lol Social Security Number....YOURS,,,each job, each marriage, each place of residents, THATS IT GIRL.....lol

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Wed 03/26/08 07:43 PM
I lived with a guy back in the '80s. We never married. After I left him, I moved 3 or 4 times within the same state (New Jersey); got married; got divorced; moved to CT; moved around there a couple of times; moved to PA. I just got a call from an attorney's office looking for him. How they heck did they track me down? We never owned any property together, had any shared credit cards; nothing. Weird. I have no idea where he is. Possibly bills. If they have a record of his addresses from his bills, and they can find out if anyone else was paying bills from the same address at the same time, they can back track that way. Seems time consuming to research it, but it keeps some people in jobs at least.

azrae1l Joined Sat 03/24/07 Posts: 3624	Wed 03/26/08 07:44 PM
somewhere along the lines your ssn was associated with his, either on an account of some sort, lease, applications or such. once you've been associated with him like that all they have to do is run a credit check on that ssn and it will tell them your last known address, phone, where you've lived and all of that. the lawyers are just running down every person associated with him in however many years seeing if anybody knows where he is at the moment. standard practice.... i just got a call from a collection agency looking for my ex because she didn't pay a bally's bill for over a year now and they found me off the credit card she used to make the first payment. thats all it took.