This is digusting

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This morning I got a phone call on a phone number that I have only had about a year and a half. This man introduced himself and he was very polite asking if I knew some distant cousin's. I do genealogical research and I was thinking and hoping that it might be another person doing the same. I replied , "Yes, but I do not talk to them much, sometimes I have contact with them online, but not often." I asked for his name and number and if I do get in contact with them at some point I would pass it on. He said that he had heard that my late uncle's step son had moved to California. Then I was pretty sure this was not about genealogy! Then he asked me could I get in touch with him today I said,"I just told you that I rarely communicate with him." And he said his goodbyes. Then I looked to see if I had his number and did not. Then I called his wife and got her voice mail and I left a message. Then I called him back to see what this was because it was an 800 number and I wrote down the company name. When he got on the line I asked him how he had found out about me as possibly someone that would know them and he told me from my late uncles obituary!!!!!!!!!! I was furious!!!!!!!!!!!! It get's worse, I checked the company's name and what they do.............. a bill collector! A bill collector looked on my uncle obituary for info to collect money!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah I have looked on obituaries for information, but only for genealogical information. Which I might add I do not get paid for!