518-312-4713

it's portfolio, calling for the wrong person, there's no *Leslie Skrine* @ this number!

Send them a Cease and Desist letter by certified, return receipt US mail.  That will get their attention and also put them on notice that you are aware of your rights and the law.  Here is all the information necessary for you to do that:
Portfolio Recovery Associates AKA PRA
Posted in:  https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-757-952-1847
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-731-256-6891#p835242346866394674
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-606-9402/4
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-757-215-1948
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-859-586-9557/9#p836803096131764013
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-518-312-4713
Web page with contact information:  http://www.portfoliorecovery.com/contact_us.html
BBB page with 1,320 complaints, a government action from the State of new York, and yet they get an A- rating?  http://www.bbb.org/norfolk/business-reviews/d ... olk-va-51000164
Bizapedia has them as a Delaware Corporation started in 2007 as opposed to the information on the BBBB page that says 1996:
http://www.bizapedia.com/de/PORTFOLIO-RECOVERY-LLC.html
Other complaint sites:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/portfolio-recovery-associates-c275360.html
http://www.creditreportproblems.com/Portfolio_Recovery_Associates_LLC.htm
Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt.  It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes.  The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days of the date of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.
Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send and also make a complaint at this government site:  http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.

Usually call 2-3 times a day

Called today @ 7:30 am. Isn't that too early for debt collectors?

This is a brand new Portfolio Recovery spoof number.

Spoofing is illegal and that's all they (can) do. Don't give criminals a dime.

Called and asked for someone who does not live here.  This is a fake call to harass and get $$$$$$$.  I love when they call an attorney and they don't know it.  That is their fate not mine.

I like to mess with them when they call.  I start off by telling them that I am interested in what they have to say but I have to warn them that I have turret's Syndrome and I am prone to uncontrollable swearing at times. . . .then everytime they start talk I go off on a cussing rampage. . . then I appoligize profusely for it. . . but I keep doing it over and over again and always apologize after each rampage. . . after awhile they give up and hang up. . . . . [***] that they are:-)

I've been getting the Portfolio Recovery calls so maybe they thought I would answer a different #.

A long time ago I used to answer unknown #s but stopped after I got an automated instruction:
press 1 if this is ______,
press 2 to hold while _______ comes to the phone,
press 3 to enter ________'s new #.
No press 4 if this is not ______ and I have never heard of him.

Something's up here, ie Portfoolio is up to no good. Four and a half years ago, in September 2010, Portfoolio was forced by my state's Attorney General to reply to my letter asking them to verify a debt they were hounding me about via the telephone. In the letter, their lawyer stated the debt had been bought in 2001, was a line on a printout from some bank I had never heard of and that does not exist any longer (bought up by Citibank), and could NOT be verified. The AG consumer protection office could not force them to stop pestering us by phone, but they did have the authority to direct Portfoolio to call no more than twice in a day, and to identify themselves in the caller ID. For years, Portfoolio did that. Then, sometime around November or December, the calls dropped off. THEN, last week, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, there is a number on our call log with PITTSBURGH in the caller ID, identified on 800 notes as belonging to Portfoolio. Now, today, there is a number on the call log with ALBANY on the caller ID, again, identified in 800 notes as being also from Portfoolio. It would appear that Portfoolio has a whole new schtick going, has chosen to ignore the Attorney General's directive that they identify themselves in the caller ID.  I guess I gotta get back to the AG, and also, the time has come, perhaps, to write Portfoolio's recovery experts a cease and desist letter. Enough already!

They definitely were around earlier than 2007, as their dopey lawyer stated in a letter to me he was forced to write by the state attorney general office, that they bought the line in the printout that constitutes the "debt" they are trying to extort me to pay them, in 2001. (He did not explain why they bought the printout in 2001, but waited until 2009 to begin trying to extort $$$$s from me based upon this unverified line in a printout. )

Same as Ms B at the top. Called asking for someone who doesn't live here. Did not ID themselves, but, also did not pester me for anything. They simply hung up.

Another spoof phone number for Portfolio Recovery Associates

Other known number and caller id entries:

204-949-3108
205-423-4020
205-588-8181
212-000-4956
215-944-8989
239-642-8598
404-489-2841
404-580-0720
404-592-5171
404-968-4848
405-329-5714
407-347-4014
410-282-1420
412-282-1420
412-282-1423
416-800-9148
440-580-0720
443-313-1380
443-313-1382
484-489-2840
484-489-2841
510-355-1780
512-519-3650
513-878-4916
518-207-3600
602-264-2270
602-286-5100
602-795-1383
604-637-3300
605-782-2890
616-608-0982
620-662-1492
620-662-8870
626-209-2241
626-209-2244
661-673-4507
678-265-1568
678-265-1576
702-410-7069
702-410-7497
714-408-3640
714-680-3192
714-992-2282
727-637-8527
731-215-8010
731-984-7690
757-029-6735 (no joke - 029 is in the caller id)
757-321-2508
757-321-6271
757-321-6279
757-321-6280
757-321-6281
757-321-6282
757-519-9300
757-847-4539
757-864-0020
757-961-3544
757-961-3545
757-961-3546
757-961-3547
757-961-3548
786-206-8643
800-294-7691
800-427-7142
800-473-7994
800-772-1413
818-996-0404
847-678-9710
847-791-0193
847-994-2540
847-994-2544
858-346-1184
859-918-0780
859-918-0782
864-268-3762
866-240-7530
866-658-7508
866-691-3568
866-887-0973
866-891-3257
866-940-7640
877-275-8236
877-749-9731
877-803-0008
877-876-8723
888-218-5212
888-543-6072
888-772-7326
918-442-0320
973-947-4806
980-939-7534

Personal Block List:

404-489-2841
626-209-2244
757-864-0020
702-410-7497
757-029-6735
678-265-1576
484-489-2841
443-313-1382
412-282-1423
412-235-6111
800-772-1413
412-235-6111
410-575-1863
678-275-8928
914-595-7031
404-719-4368
859-586-9557
202-607-2732
443-313-1380
443-313-1382
914-513-0163
407-347-4021
404-865-3326
443-313-1381
914-513-0163
407-347-4021
404-865-3326
866-610-8469
440-638-5278
731-345-4195
205-396-3619
602-635-3897
620-263-3537
510-343-3502
817-479-9154
817-500-4358
954-606-9402
817-500-4360
678-265-3904
412-847-5934
518-312-4713

Debt collectors can call from 8 AM - 9 PM Monday - Saturday, is what I'm told.  7:30 AM should be grounds for a lawsuit!

calls 2-3 times daily trying to collect  I dont answer  calls with no caller id can't they take a hint they leave no message so I dont call them back

Now I'll give that one an "A" for creativity.

Yes Portfolio is back up its old game of spoofing numbers with no name on the caller ID.  For the past yr all the numbers were properly ID'd as Portfolio Recovery, but I see that stopped and the number of calls has picked back up after a lull of only 1  to 3 day to about 5 or so the past couple of days.  There is no way to really get rid of them.  Because if they are spoofing numbers and you don't answer you can't prove it was them who is calling even after a USPS cease all communications letter is filed.
I sent them a certified letter back in 2009 asking for verification of a debt  they claimed I owed.  I informed them in the letter the debt they were  claiming I owed was well past this states SOL.  I never received anything back, no verification, nothing.
Every few months though I would get some printed bull letter with a ever increasing extortion fee from a account I didn't have and they couldn't prove.  I still get those letters and its 6 yrs later.  The phone calls are a sad fact of life.  Along with some Indian cracker calling telling me is with Microsoft and I have a virus.  And some christian crap called Lifegivingmoments, and some jerk trying to sell solar panels,, blah, blah, blah

Got a call from this number.  Didn't recognize and let it go to voice mail. they did not leave a message

Called me at 8:58 AM. I believe my state allows calls starting at 9:00 AM, so they definitely pushed the limit there. The asked for a different name than my own, one that started with 'D'. Not realizing this might be a debt collector, I simply said "I'm sorry, you have the wrong number," and hung up.

After I  hung up, I realized that I may have received a similar call some time in the past. So, if I get another call like this again, I'll go into debt-collector mode and let them know they must stop calling this number.

If number is not in my phone contact list (cell or land line), I don't pick up.  If legit they would leave a message.  They have been calling my number for 5 years.  The first 4 years it was for "Karen......" and last year they called for a  "Barbara .....".  Funny thing is the Barbara they asked for is my ex-husband's wife...lol!!   My ex  never lived at my current address nor did he ever have this phone number.   I use to block numbers but found that increased calls because they know they reached "a person".  When I unblocked and stopped picking up.... we went from 20 calls a month down to maybe 4.

Have received several calls from this outfit over the last two weeks. Never leave a message. I made the mistake of calling them back once and the person began telling me that I could pay the Capitol One card debt of over $1000 I owed on a card that I allegedly canceled in 1999. I argued that I had never had a Capital One card and did not owe anything. We exchanged a few words and I was then asked if my SS # was() and if my address was so and so and I said no to both questions. He stated that he had the wrong person and would mark this off as a wrong number or some such nonsense. I had hoped this was the end of it but they still call using a different number each time. It is really sad that the authorities cannot do something about this kind of thievery and harassment.