About 5 yrs ago I walked away from a Wells Fargo Credit card, I think the it was for $3000 or something around that area. Well I went through a bad breakup and money got tight so I just stopped paying on it, and Im sure they called for a while but it has been 5 yrs so I never really heard from them until the other day. They contacted an old family friend at work and said that they needed to speak to me it was urgent and they needed to serve me papers. I have not seen or talked to this person in over 15 years, so I think the way they found her was through facebook, but Im not 100% sure, but that is the only way that makes sense to me. So she didnt have my number so she called her mom who called my step mom, at this point no one knew it was in regards to a dept, they thought something was wrong. My step mom called the 800 # and they proceeded to tell her all my info, they told her what I owed, what bank the credit card was for, and they even tried to settle it with her. I know that has to be a violation of privacy or something. Then today they called that family friend again 6 times at work, and they wouldn't put her through and they then wanted to talk to her boss. She finally got on the phone and said to leave her alone but they told her they were going to serve me papers and if I still had the same place of employment. She works for a school dist. and the address they gave was one of her schools. I live no where near this girl. What can I do, PLease I need some help!!!
If you just get on the phone with them and give them a number to reach you at they will stop contacting 3rd parties. If they divulged your personal information to 3rd parties then yes they are in violation of numerous laws. They probably got your friend's phone number from skip-tracing tools that pull up contact information for people who have ever been in some way associated with you.
