510-343-3502

Got a call from them looking for a Rachel Duncan.  Never heard of her.  Don't know if it was a legitimate call or not.

called my google voice number. didn't leave a message.

Called me earlier this evening, it's Portfolio Recovery Associates

Portfolio recovery has many many many numbers ranging from California, to Florida and they use them to trick people into picking up their phones.  The number are limitless and they use many different area codes.  

Yet another number to add to your block list for Portfoliio Recovery.

Another new number used by Portfoolio Recovery experts, the bottom-feeding vermin who have been calling our house since early 2009. They have a lawyer, his name is Pearson, he was hired to deal with all the state attorney general offices all over the country who field complaints about PRA. Well, Pearson was forced to write me a letter by the AG consumer protection office in early 2010. Pearson said: "we have decided to cease collection efforts." Pearson may not know the meaning of the fancy words he uses, because this was call #466 since he wrote that letter almost four years ago. Dontcha love it. Not one single call from these extortionate scum has ever been so much as picked up, but they believe, in their hearts, that one of these days, somebody in this house is going to pick up the phone and apologize for making them wait so long, and send off a generous check to help fund their reovery center, poor dears. Sigh.

Why on earth have you not gone after them accordingly? Have you sent a cease & desist letter via the US mail?   At least talk to a FDCPA attorney..

https://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassi ... ou-need-to-know

See Residents post here also:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls

http://www.nclc.org/images/pdf/debt_collectio ... tection_act.pdf

The newest number from these jerks.  Gotta give them credit, they don't stop no matter how much blood you can't get from a turnip they are going to try their hardest to get some juice.

After missing several calls from this number, I called and quickly got an answer.  I was told I had to provide my complete social security number in order them to identify me.  When I told the representative that I would not give him my social security number, he said he couldn't help me and hung up.

Received calls from 3 different numbers all said Portfolio, asking for someone, but they have a very thick accent can not understand them. Said no one here by that name.

What's to go after?  They are within the law passed by the Best Congress Money Can Buy. They are complying with the atty. gen'l's directive that they identify themselves in the caller ID, they are calling no more than twice in a 24-hour period, and they call on random days, not every day. They go for a week or ten days sometimes, until they call again. What they are doing is not harassment, and it was not I who asked them to stop calling, it was their goofy lawyer who stated they had "decided" to "cease collection efforts." They can call until the world ends. We have caller ID, never pick up, never will, and their continued calling just reminds me to go to 800notes and let others know what bottom-feeding vermin they are,  not to answer, not to talk to them, ignore them. They are operating a (legal) extortion scam, trying to intimidate unwary persons into sending money on unverified and past statute "debts."  Let them go pound sand. Do not be intimidated.

This is another number from PORTFOLIO RECOVERY,  They are unethical scumbags who buy OLD debts that have long passed their statutes of limitations.    
The caller will do or say anything to try and get you to agree to pay on a debt you already paid off or you are not even legally responsible for.
The PORTFOLIO employee / Caller get a percentage of what ever you pay.
DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFO.....!!!!!!

BRAVO on your comment !!!!!!!!

Actually... they don't identify themselves on caller ID, they call more than twice a day, call every day if you bother answering ever, and are in violation of several federal laws by doing this.

Weird thing about PRA they never ever leave a message. not once.  They call almost everyday using different numbers from different states, never leave message!  I look the number up and  low and behold  PRA...

The thing is that they do not ID themselves, they use places like California, Tennessee, Florida very rarely use their actual name....They are the worst.  They call at all hours, I got a call this morning at 7;45 a.m. from them.

Let me be more clear about what I said above, about the number of times these vermin call, and about the caller ID. Several of you have replied that your experience is different, and there is a reason for that.

I too was getting calls four and six times a day from unidentified callers, who, I found out from 800 notes,  were Portfoolio Reovery. That was when I complained to my state's Consumer Protection unit in the Attorney General's office. Portfoolio had ignored my letter asking for verification of the debt they claimed I owed them. They were forced to respond to the Atty. General.

A lawyer named Pearson, who Portfoolio had hired to deal with all such inquiries by Atty. General offices all over the USA, wrote that the "debt" could not be verified, that it was nothing but a line in a printout from a bank that apparently does  not even exist anymore, called Providian. Pearson stated the last action on the account had been 1997, the printout of written-off debts had been purchased by Portfoolio in 2001. Pearson further stated the incomprehensible fact that Portfoolio had clutched the printout to its breast for eight years   !!!!!!   before beginning to hound us in 2009 about this unverified, past-statute debt. Let  us remember, Portfoolio may have paid between $60 and $90 for this line on  a printout, but was hounding us to fork over nearly $5000. (Apparently, the unpaid credit card balance had been around $2200) .

Pearson stated, in writing, that they had "decided to cease collection efforts", upon which they issued a fraudulent 1099-C income statement to the IRS, but that is another story. However, despite the fact that these bottom-feeding vermin had "decided to cease collection efforts" early September, 2010, they apparently do not consider pest calls part of their collection efforts, as the calls have continued to this day. (today was call #484 on a different number)

The upshot is that the attorney general is not able to force them to stop calling, but it is able to force them to identify themselves in the caller ID, to limit their calls to twice a day, and apparently get them to cease calling every single day.  

Yep. Its portfolio again. I realise that there are legitimate people out there that actually do owe debts, but can they really keep calling the telephone number that that person had who knows how long ago? I've had the telephone number for 5 years and I am still not the person they are looking for. I don't understand why they can't stop calling for this wrong person. I may invest in a phone block at this rate.

I'm just a dumb Canuck but I've hung around this forum long enough to know that you are getting SCREWED.  You need to write them a Cease and Desist letter, send it via registered mail return requested.  Keep a copy for yourself so that when you take these criminals to court, you will have a record.  Also, until you take them to court, keep a written record of dates, times and all that jazz of their calls.  If they fail to comply (which they probably will), find an FDCPA lawyer (most will work on contingency) and sue them up the ying yang.

Porfolio again I have been playing with these clowns for over a year. When they first started with me, I told them, if I owed any money, then prove it, which of course they could not.  The FBI said until they came up with proof, do not send them a nickel, the Better Business Bureau said the same. Just FYI, their address is 120 Corporate Blvd, Norfolk Virginia.