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These people called, left a respectable message BUT the person they are looking for has my same first name and a different last name.  Obviously not me.  I will not be calling them back.

This number calls me everyday.  For the past 2 months, I had another number call me regarding collections on someone with the same first and last name but different middle name.  I told them that it wasn't me, and they immediately hung up.  Now, I have this number calling me, which I am sure is about the other person.  URGH.  With 2 young kids, I don't have time to go searching for my phone to pick it up only to find out it's them.  I am going to visit the Verizon office today for them to show me how to block this number.

got  call  but  no  message  and  no  answer

stop calling to my home ok

I got a call on this number today, on two other PRA numbers yesterday, and several other numbers were used this week to call  here. These bottom feeders have been calling and calling for at leest 18 months.  Nobody had ever even picked up the phone.  Yesterday, I wrote up the complaint for our Attorney General's Consumer Protection Office, and sent along a log of all their calls.  I think they have called me from 18 different numbers, and have collected another ten numbers they use from reports on this site.  My complaint will probably be forwarded to the Virginia consumer protection office, but I wanted the Pennsylvania office to have a record.  What a scam, the big bank takes a tax deduction for the write-off, and then they 'sell' an acount that no longer exists, and take another tax deduction for the difference between the size of the unpaid debt and what they sold it for, and then pond scum like Portfolio Recovery/Anchor Receivables, who paid maybe $50 for something that does not exist, turn around and harass us for ten times that much!  And apparently, it is all perfectly legal. Portfolio Recovery are slime, but they are not the only scammers here.  The "law" that allows this sort of garbage ought to be ashamed of itself.

The only thing which could have caused these weasels to call me is either some pure mistake, or possibly some minor item WAY beyond any period for legitimate collection.  If it is the latter, it would be following a divorce 10 years ago.  I had an attorney handle everything, and all items were minor in $ amount and all were current.  Either there is a an error, or it is possible a minor item could have slipped "between the cracks," although I doubt it.  Either way, no possible legitimacy.  From what I understand, these people buy old debt portfolios, for ¢'s on the $'s, far beyond limitation statutes and many erroneous, and then autodial MANY phone #'s.  Where they detect a live answer, someone there picks-up, and tries to coax and threaten the person into paying something.  Subsequent live answers go unheeded, and sometimes their system leaves a voice mail message, sometimes not.  One of their smarmy representatives can make a good living if he/she makes a collection or two a day, perhaps one for every several hundred calls they've autodialed.  These are simply bottom-feeding slimeballs who now use technology to do what they've always done, with this automation making it possible to bother more people more often.  But same technology makes it easier for us to ignore and cut-off with minimum bother.

The person that these people are trying to reach no longer has this phone number!!!!! We are getting very tired of them calling at least 3 times a day!!!!!! Please stop these phone calls it is getting very annoying!!!!!! Please stop!!!!! Thank you!

These people keep leaving messages saying I must respond by 3:30 Eastern time or face the consequences.  Well, I don't respond to threats so I've not returned their calls.  Let them file in court.  I'll respond and they'll have to show the court records I KNOW don't exist.  Can't get a judgement against something that doesn't exist.

Try phone.com or eVoice.com  Block as many (or all) numbers you want

The FDA does NOT run the No Call List. It's run by the FTC!

YES LEE IS STUPID  

just like the LIES they use on the phone - they come here and post their FALSE INFORMATION all the time.

There has been a NEW FEDERAL COURT CASE in regards to recording calls - This can impact those states that have the all party consent rules.  

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/08/wiretap.pdf

Alfaalfa, sounds like you are one of the scammers!! Leave us alone-we are not stupid and will not fall for your scam!!

I start to get calls from this #

Called on a freaking Sunday @ 3:28pm - once again, no ringer, so don't know they call until missed call.

Will these [***] ever stop after a certain time?

Anyone know?

they called my cell phone and i hit ignore. they never left a message.

they are using 2 different #'s: 205 423 4020 and 757 864 0020

Got a call a few days ago from this number but I wasn't home so when I got another call tonight, I answered it.  A young sounding woman asked if she could speak to Lauren.  I told her she had the wrong number.  She asked if I knew a Lauren Miller.  I said no. She said oh, okay, and hung up.  Won't answer the next call now that I know it is a collection agency.

Thanks for posting.  Received this call.  No message left. Portfolio Recovery Associates.

A air boat horn works great and is portable so you can keep it by the phone,or ask them about their Mother and the next door neighbor that works for me for a few months at a time.

They have about 20 different numbers they call from and as many different names

one number is new york exchange they other virginia