404-592-5171

Portfolio Recovery. They are ridiulous. These are just some of the numbers they have called me from (regarding a debt which is well over ten years old and may not even be my own...): 678-265-1568; 702-410-7069; 205-588-8181; 404-592-5171; 858-346-1184. And others.

March 2011
The law firm of Turner Law Offices, LLC has filed a Class Action lawsuit against Defendant Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. ("PRA") in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on behalf of all persons in the State of Georgia who, since October 28, 2010, received a non-emergency telephone call from PRA to a cellular telephone through the use of an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice and who did not provide prior express consent for such calls during the transaction that resulted in the debt owed.

Here's some "MORE"  P.I.T.A. numbers that call people about non-legit debts:
978-826-1081
978-826-1297
978-535-3030
888-234-6273          
888-234-6548          
866-251-0200          
866-363-3744
866-977-7568          
866-200-9343
866-622-2027
866-233-0397
866-520-2678
866-516-8448
800-337-1836
800-524-4180
800-383-5558
770-234-0101
702-410-7069
678-265-1568
626-209-2241
404-612-2512
404-592-5171
205-588-8181

THEIR STOCK IS DOWN 24% SINCE THIS CAMPAIGN STARTED. FAR BELOW THE DROP IN THE DOW. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE FOLKS!

Reverse boycott. Together we are destroying their cost/benefit ratio by consuming their service. Their legal model is less vulnerable than their business model. Individual efforts against their legal model have failed for years. This united effort against their business model is succeeding.

When a company can repeatedly call with the intent of getting money their customers can repeatedly answer or call back with the intent of not giving them any. They need people to pay with as little talk as possible. They don't want to talk with people who know they are never going to pay. Be all talk and no pay. Answer when convenient. Call back. Give no information. Verify nothing. Ask as many questions as you can. Answer none.

Don't ignore/block/report them. It doesn't work. These folks want you to ignore them for as long as you can stand to or until you give them something valuable like money or information. Ignoring them is being their good customer. Sending a cease and desist is giving information. It lets them know you are still alive and remain their good customer. Preparing to initiate unlikely individual legal battles is being their good customer.

Be their bad customer. Make them talk to you fruitlessly for as long as they can stand to or until they stop selecting you as their customer. These companies cannot spend seconds much less minutes on the phone with every person who will never send them a dime. But they don't know who that is. You do. That knowledge is power. Every second you can keep their staff on the phone will render their business less profitable giving them a reason to never call you again.

Calling will not reset your SOL. Making a partial payment will.

I like to ask general questions they should but usually won't answer. "May I have the name and address of your agent for service of process?" Calmly and slowly ask them to spell every word in the address. Read it back for verification. Control the pace. If they are rushing then politely ask them to slowly repeat. "Are you a corporation and if so in which state are you incorporated?" Repeat your questions when you don't get direct answers. When they won't answer a question ask, "Would you like to comply with the business and professions codes of your state?" That is usually the point when they hang up on me but if they say they want to comply then begin your questions again.

Repeat while you have the spare time. These folks have many victims and few operators. If everyone calls back but pays nothing the mass auto-dialer business model becomes unprofitable. Don't aide and comfort the enemy by ignoring them. Call! Have a nice long slow friendly chat! Make them hang up first.

Press 2 for Spanish.

For any business, customers who consume the most resources but don't pay (or otherwise add value) become the least desirable. Most businesses will stop (cease and desist) soliciting an undesirable customer. Those that don't stop remain knowingly vulnerable to the actions of their undesirable customers. Few companies can afford to let everyone take a piece of them whenever they want endlessly. For instance they must pay staff to answer everyone's telephone calls which can be placed at your convenience for the joy of it. Call and consume their operator time without paying or giving information. Be a bad customer. The worst customer. Inspire them to invoke their right to refuse you service by not soliciting you.

There are certainly enough victims to take down this company so ignoring/blocking seems downright Orwellian to me. Really? We're just going to passively submit and go with a block list or however we manage ignoring an endless stream of unwanted phone calls day after day? Hell no! Unite or remain conquered. Answer/return every call - become well practiced at keeping these folks on the phone - or count yourself not amongst the free.

I keep receiving calls from PRC. I block every number they call from. they keep calling from different numbers. Somehow they call from numbers that I have blocked. I do not know how they call back on block numbers.

Ex wifes debt, from an old hospital bill, took me to court and the judge decided in their favor , wtf ???
didn't go after the ex, garnished wages until they're paid , this was her bill after divorce, don't ever talk to them is what I found out, once they talk to you , everything is recorded, so if you do answer the phone tell them they have the wrong number - no one there by the name they're asking for, don't say yeah thats my ex , you can reach the ex at 314-etc it made it so I had to pay, only in IL crazy , now when they call I play a recording of a disconnected number , who knows what else the ex owes on. I moved and got a different number with a 618 area code, somehow they found it, tracfone even.