513-407-4473

Automated call ask for someone who doesn't live here. If you call back the lady says her name is Dorthy. The real company is CBCS, Credit Bureau Collection Service, looking for debt collection. The keep calling even after I ask them to removed my number

Debt collectors are notoriously deaf to verbal requests. It's not so much incompetence as the policy of lawbreaking debt collectors across the industry to assume you are a liar until you give an answer which gets one paid.

To a ''not me'' case I always recommend putting the agency on notice, just as you would if you were the target and the debt claim was invalid. Send a ''cease-communication'' notice via USPS Certified with return card. This is the method promoted by the FTC and many consumer watchdogs, and the best way to set a legal landmine, as such a notice is ignored at their risk of a lawsuit from you. You may already be due some payback if you can prove you've endured abusive or misleading treatment in an effort to collect debt.

CBCS boasts on its promo website that it "has performed over 1,000,000 successful skiptraces." In a way, they were charged a dollar for each one by the FTC in March 2010:

Debt Collectors Will Pay More Than $1 Million to Settle FTC Charges
Claimed Debts Were Owed Despite Consumers’ Disputes
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/creditcollect.shtm

Calls multiple times a day, no message.