I am not responsible for any debts which I did not personally incur. Have a nice day. Click.
Till I cut off my landline this year, I still got one or two calls a year about bills from my uncle who died 19 years ago.
I started out polite but all I would say in the following years was F off and hang up the phone.
They started in on me not a month after my father passed away. He didn’t have many debts, just a few small ones, but I had to go ahead and pay them out of my own funds as they were turning stuff out to “collection agencies” (evidently bone pickers)immediately after I wrote them notification of his death and my intention to pay within weeks.
Once they learned of his death, they hardly waited until they had sent out their first bills after his death to start harrassing me, so I paid them myself in order to get them to quit calling and got his estate settled out a few weeks later. (I would have paid them as my Daddy would have NEVER let his bills go unpaid.)