209-858-3565

are you gonna shoot someone through the phone? hahah!

Received a call this afternoon from these people... missed the call and called the number back. A woman answered, I asked her what company she was affiliated with. She said she couldn't give me that information unless I told her who I was. I told her I wouldn't give her that information until she told me who DCS was. She said she wasn't "allowed" to give out that info. Extremely strange. It's worth mentioning I don't owe any taxes or outstanding debt...

Called asking for hire date of a current employee.

this is a collection agency that called me concerning a third-party.

I stated my phone number and stated eight times :
"Put this number on your Do Not Call list, This is a cell phone. Do not call me again."

I said NOTHING more. She is a professionally trained debt collector trying to weasel ANY information, but she did not consent to comply with my request to discontinue future contact. I reported this incident to the Federal Trade Commission.

They will call you about your neighbor, friend, co-worker, or family. Do not give them any information.

209-858-3500 called and asked for a person I do not know. Tole them so and to quit calling me. They then called my neighbours to terrorize and violate my privacy. The name of the caller was given as "Kay Sutton" with "Direct Collection Sservice, INC." Never heard of them.

I received a call from 209-858-3500 asking for me by my maiden name, which I have not used for several years.  My husband took the call and when the caller refused to answer questions, he hung up.  I called back and was put through to a voice mail.  Not sure what this is about, I don't think I have any bills that went to collections.  Reading the posts though, I wanted to clarify in general that that there are databases that can be legally used by debt collectors that will tell them the names and phone numbers of neighbors and family members and a common debt collection practice is to call neighbor/family of a debtor as a way to track down or verify how a debtor can be located.  A somewhat sleazy practice, but legal in many states.  A smart practice is to never give out any information about anything over the phone when you receive an unsolicited call from someone you don't know personally.

called asking for neighbors phone #.

did not provide them with any information

They called me awhile ago. Asking for my address, being specific to streets, house numbers etc. asking for my neighbors name and their address as well. Kinda peculiar, my home phone is unlisted, after they seemed to get what information they could try to get from me, the lady just hung up. Such an odd thing to happen! Seems a bit annoying to me.

called and said it was very very important that they get a message to so and so that lives at an address down the block from me.  Funny thing is, no one there goes by the name he said...and that house had sat empty for over 10 years, until just very recently.  For every question he asked, I asked one....and gave him no answers.  Nor did he give me any.  I told him unless it was a family emergency, I didn't need to telling my neighbors anything, and why is he calling me anyway??  I also told him, well, since you have their address, why aren't you contacting them via mail?  He said he was with DCS services, but wouldn't say what they do.

A woman of clear english called to say she had to contact a person named Cindy Burnell or something like that and that I was listed as a contact reference for finding her from a certain town I had been associated with of which she preceeded to tell me that she really needed to contact her and I said I didn't know anyone by that name and only worked in that town but never met a Cindy at all. She continued to push me into finding this Cindy person under urgent matters and I repeated what part of I DON'T KNOW THAT PERSON DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND...then I hung up realizing it was a scam. On my caller Id Diversified Col and 209-858-3500 was listed. So I did report it to the fcc.gov as directed in comments below on this web site.

These people called and asked for just my husband.  They wouldn't tell me any information and were very serious about my husband calling them back.  Melissa told me "he will know the number" and "he needs to call me as soon as possible."  She was almost like a "girlfriend/stalker" in her tone and refusal to share any information.  I googled the phone number and found MANY reports of the same behavior.  I'm sad that people are spending their days scaring the public.  I called her back and asked her if she was proud of her job and if she felt good about trying to scare/scam people.  I hope something happens to her/her company.  They have called 4 times in the past week and need to be stopped!

Got the same thing, called to see if we knew our neighbor. We just moved here less than 2 months ago.

They called 4 times. The 3rd time I answered, but they had hung up after the 2nd ring. The last time I picked up in time, and was told by an operator that the call would be recorded, and I was then put through to a ringing line.  I hung up, but was alerted by a friend that there was a scam like that going around.  Good thing I hung up!

858 is lathrop number i know that much it is a neighboring town to manteca