DOES anyone know Penny Goodman? Don’t worry, this isn’t a missing persons report, it isn’t even a search for a long lost friend or family member. I would just like to know whether she actually exists, and if she does, why on earth does our phone number appear on every form she’s ever filled in?!
A couple of years ago we registered with the Telephone Preference Service and since then we don’t get cold calls. We get the occasional recorded message from our bank, and the odd call from a charity when one of us has filled in a form and ticked the wrong box, but none of the old “we understand from our records that you’re looking to buy a new oven” delights.
However every day, without fail, we will have a call for a lady called Penny Goodman. The frightening thing is, the companies who ring us, let us know so much about this woman, we know the amount of debt she has, the bills she hasn’t paid, the amount of complaints eBay is fielding on her behalf, the type of car she drives and the hotel she stayed in just a few months ago.
Now there are three options:
- Penny Goodman doesn’t actually exist at all, she’s all part of some grand telesales scheme to get people to talk
- This woman genuinely thinks her phone number is the same as ours
- Old Penny is pulling a fast one and spends, borrows and holidays all over the world, passing on all sorts of fake contact details, in order to remain untraceable.
I suspect it’s the third, I hope it’s the second, and if it’s the first then I’m afraid sunshine, it hasn’t worked. Random calls to the landline receive very little welcome, unless Mark’s in the mood to play, and then he will have a long conversation with the poor soul at the other end about Penny - the illusive, or somewhat invisible woman!
If you have any information on the whereabouts of this woman, or know the trade secrets in telesales about the name Penny Goodman, please let me know - I’d love to be able to catch them out next time they ring!
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