7145515501

Female called to speak to "someone who handles our credit card services" -- when I asked if they serviced our credit card payments she said yes, but when I would not give her the contact person name (because of course it is a scam) - she got irrate --- so I slammed the phone in her ear. Just wish I had a whistle, cause I would have blown it in her ear.

don't call me

call from 7145515501 I never answer they call many times a day. They never leave a message

well they must be really bored . cuz they are calling my cell ...a 599 area code which is in sint maaretn...when i call back its busy....

Received a call from this number yesterday. When I answered a foreign sounding guy said they were doing some kind of radio survey. I received a call from the same number several days prior with the same statement except it was  foreign sounding female. Just another phone scam. Heard some news today that Congress is considering legislation that will fine these people $20,000 per call. I think the FTC gets somthing like 200,000 complaints per month about phone scammers. Let's hope the goverment cracks down.

they are at it again../    not gonnaa answer ya

go ahead fill out their form  thats why its there    ...   to scam you....   then you info is sold...

Caller ID "Out of Area" 714-551-5501. We didn't answer and they left no message.

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. Digital hardware call blockers, the popular "DIGITONE Call Blocker 10" for example, could help or do harm depending on how high-tech and aggressive the rogue callers are against your phone number. The more technology you use against them, the more likely they will use technology more aggressively against you to the point where your phone could ring more frequently from rogue calls and in middle of the night hours. So staying lower-tech could actually help to keep your phone a bit more under their unrelenting predatory radar. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit, albeit spoofed calls are backed by governments and corporations, so there is nothing the little guy can do against such illegitimate activities but to block and ignore them. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. “John Doe” not “Jonathon Q. Doe” or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited ... llection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

I believe it's http://www.datascension.com/.

no quiero que me llamen mas! no tengo tiempo para responder encuests!!!

This number called me this morning and when i picked up i could hear a young woman joking with someone, so before she could acknowledge me i just pressed and held down the # button to annoy her the hung up :)

Movie survey/outsourced/could barely understand caller.  He was polite when I told him to take me off his list.  Have had Netflix for years and this group has never called before

Caller ID 714-551-5501AA
Long survey about Global Warming, (probably the control question that they throw out), Financial planning, media, (asked about four big pay cable companies and Netflix) and the obligatory personal statistical data. Seemed to be a straightforward legit survey, but I wonder if it would have gone differently if I had cable or was upper middle class, because there appeared to be some "break points" in her flow chart where my answers seemed to throw her off for a second.

Jan.2/12@8:18pm - this number called earlier today, no message left.  Just spoke with lady - sound like Mexican accent?  Says they are from DataPro, doing a survey of numbers in the 905 (Ontario) area.  Said they will not use any personal data collected, it is only for consolidated data.  I asked how long it would take - she said 10 minutes; I consented.  She logged my phone number - and then hung up!

An earlier week, same number called - for survey for males under the age of 18. I said 'No' - they hung up. A male voice - but I could swear I was talking to a computer voice replicator.

DataPro is a U.S.-based survey company, so have no idea why they are calling Canadians.  Will note to the CRTC and PhoneBusters - just in case.  U.S. companies use their legistation but do NOT respect our privacy laws!

714-551-5501 IS TRYING TO GET PERSONAL INFORMATION POSING AS A SURVEY ORGANIZATION.  AVOID THEM!

Received two calls from 741-551-5502 and one call from 741-551-5501 - both saying "Orange County Area".  Not sure why they called, no vm's.  Assuming scam.

Received 2 calls from this number; didn't answer, no message left.  Caller ID shows 'TELEMARKETER'. Yeah, I'm gonna answer THAT call!

I get this 714 551 5502 and 5501 and on top of the number is the same number with AA at the end. I guess that so it shows only once. but they phone 4 or 5 times in a day. I won`t answer. Then they stop for a few days, then start again. I still won`t answer. At least I know it`s costing them each time they call. And they are located in Southern California.

When someone starts out lying about who she is representing I hang up and contact the boys over at the agency. They will be paying them a visit. Tick, tock.