{"id":519,"date":"2013-03-02T22:58:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T22:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:12:18","slug":"my-number-is-on-a-billboard-in-blaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/my-number-is-on-a-billboard-in-blaine\/","title":{"rendered":"My Number is on a Billboard in Blaine??!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a call from someone who says that my office phone number (952-544-6356) is on a billboard on Central Avenue in Blaine, MN near the intersection with 89th St.\u00a0 Furthermore this caller indicated that it says the fee for filing bankruptcy is $860, which would be way below my usual fee even for the simplest case.<\/p>\n<p>When I run a Google search for $860 bankruptcy in that neighborhood, I find references to a service which apparently is a paralegal outfit.\u00a0 Their Google Plus page says they have closed or moved.\u00a0 So did they put up my phone number so theirs would quit ringing or what?<\/p>\n<p>If anybody else has seen this, I&#8217;d sure like confirmation that it&#8217;s actually there.\u00a0\u00a0Frankly, I&#8217;m not sure\u00a0what I would do about it if it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a call from someone who says that my office phone number (952-544-6356) is on a billboard on Central Avenue in Blaine, MN near the intersection with 89th St.\u00a0 Furthermore this caller indicated that it says the fee for filing bankruptcy is $860, which would be way below my usual fee even for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/my-number-is-on-a-billboard-in-blaine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Number is on a Billboard in Blaine??!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69,12,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bankruptcy","category-chapter-13","category-chapter-7","category-consumer-protection","category-filing-bankruptcy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Number is on a Billboard in Blaine??!! 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