The debt collector called my mother 's best friend asking for myself or my mother XXXX the co-signer ) and identified that she was calling to collect a debt. The same debt collector left a voice mail on my mother in law 's phone ( she had no previous knowledge of my debt as the loans were taken out before I was married ). This voice mail said the name of the collection agency as well as that it was " an attempt to collect a debt ''. She also called my stepmother and told her the same thing- that she was calling to collect on my student loan debt, that she also was not aware of.