Woman Tracks Down Stranger Who Has Been Giving Out Her Phone Number for 17 Years

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Since 2008, one woman’s phone has been flooded with calls meant for a stranger

After ignoring it for years, she finally decided to look into the mystery

Using the area code, she uncovered an email address linked to the mystery woman, and now she’s wondering whether she should reach out

For nearly two decades, one Redditor lived with a stranger’s digital shadow trailing her every time her phone rang.

What started in middle school with a brand-new flip phone quickly turned into 17 years of unwanted calls, mistaken identities and baffling coincidences.

According to the Reddit poster, the trouble began “within the first week” of owning her first phone in 2008.

“Vanessa gives my phone number out for everything,” the Reddit user wrote , noting that her name is so "distincti