Are you positive the bill collectors are calling for you
specifically?
It's possible you just got a poisoned phone number, and any anger should be directed at the former number owner. New DIDs (phone numbers) are rare in this country, and between high churn prepaid burner-phone outfits like America Movil's brands chewing through numbers on a regular basis, it's impacting everyone (AM MVNO brands only leave their allotted numbers inactive for three weeks, and they kill accounts on a whim). It used to be that a phone number would stay dark for at least six months after disconnect before being pushed back into service, but many of the MVNOs are having to churn numbers faster to meet demand now, especially for some higher population regional exchanges. That means less time for the disconnected message to register with callers.
If you'd ported over your Verizon number, you likely would've been fine. Instead, you got a new random number and it sounds like you got a dud. Trust me, it happens. Ask me some time about the nightmare phone number I got from NET10 a few years back that resulted in my having to file a police report. (You want to know why I don't recommend AM MVNOs? It starts with this story.) Either contact Ting support and ask if you can get a new number and hope the next one isn't so bad, or go through the process of shutting the calls down, getting the number on the
national do no call registry, and informing bill collectors that Joe Schmidlap no longer owns this number and to stop calling. There are very strict laws regarding phone contact that bill collectors have to follow, use them.
On the off chance your creditors
did find you, I'd still start looking elsewhere than Ting. What you're claiming happened is blatantly outside the scope of their own
privacy policy if it did happen, and Tucows is an 800lb gorilla smart enough to not open themselves up to legal liabilities doing stupid stuff like giving your contact info on your new account to your creditors
in direct violation of their own voluntarily created privacy policy.
Also, don't worry about the voice mailbox. You don't have to set a name. Say nothing, rattle off your phone number, or simply don't set the name at all. That's always been an option to do with every voicemail system I've dealt with.