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This is a fishing scam, they always call, but never mail or come home and must of all, they have not a legal proof of the pretended debt. What they try is heat you getting you angry until you call them back. If they call, it means they want talk to you, but since everything you say will be recorded and can be used against you. I you don't answer the phone and don't call back, you are killing them. Get a call recorder, a caller ID, never answer any unidentified, unknown call, with no ID or whithout messege important to you. If nobody follows their game, THEY ARE DEAD. if you pick up the phone or call back you are reviving their track on your number.They have a lot of branches, partners or whatever accros the country. They switch calling number about every month. They should get a very high phone bills. I've been tracking their calls four years. Here you go some of their numbers they used to call:

Portfolio Recovery Services 120 Corporate Boulevard -Military Highway & I-264, Norfolk, VA 23502 or NCO Financial Systems.

205-423-4020  205-588-8181  205-588-8197  205-588-8589  239-642-8598  404-921-2521
404-921-2537  407-347-4021  407-378-4628  407-378-4640  412-282-1420  412-282-1422
412-282-1424  440-580-0720  620-662-1492  620-662-8870  678-265-1568  731-215-8010
731-984-7690  757-321-2504  757-321-6279  757-321-6280  757-321-6282  757-519-9300
757-864-0020  757-961-3544  757-961-3545  757-961-3546  757-961-3547  757-961-3548
757-990-8981  800-219-6295  800-427-7142  800-772-1413  800-860-0644  847-678-9710
847-678-9711  847-678-9712  847-678-9713  847-678-9714  847-678-9715  847-678-9716
847-678-9717  847-678-9718  847-678-9719  847-678-9720  847-678-9721  847-678-9722
847-678-9723  858-346-1184  866-418-8102  866-463-3017  866-532-9661  866-658-7508
866-691-3568  866-940-7640  877-671-1851  877-727-3719  877-803-0008  914-513-0163
914-513-2925  914-513-2939  935-6626         954-622-9827  954-678-3362  954-678-3370

Inform people when they call that there phone calls are being recorded you will be surprised at how quickly the call STOP!

Only record the calls you need to. You can also download a call recorder for your mobile phone.

Inform people when they call that there phone calls are being recorded you will be surprised at how quickly the call STOP!

Only record the calls you need to. You can also download a call recorder for your mobile phone.

It is incessant......

they just called me for a 20 year old phone bill...I may or may not owe it...how would I know?  I told them to send me a copy of the original bill...they said, "we don't send bills", I said, "I don't pay then".

Another call looking for ex's first wife.  She lives in California and he has since I threw his rear out years ago.  So another number I get to block.  Oh Joy...

These people have a HUGE automated phone bank in a tiny room in a hotel, multiple phone numbers, multiple identities, and PRETEND to collect "something". What they really try to collect is your identity information {they are staffed by handful of convicted felons, thus the aggressive attitudes} The shear number of automated phone calls they make trying to frighten a few dollars and harvest identity info is amazing (and reaps them lots of money!). This whole scam is based on a fraudulent thing called "zombie debt" (Google it)

Why do they say they are "collecting a debt", simple , to try and avoid prosecution by Federal and State  DO_NOT_CALL registries. {Several States have pursued them in courts ,Missouri and Florida most recently}

DO NOT ANSWER THEM. Say nothing. If they were a legitimate business they would send valid inquires by mail.

They make money on the hundreds of thousand of automated "cold calls" they make every day. Think of all the poor suckers who will keep sending them money without even a "reverse look-up" of this phone number.

If you are reading is site, you are in the 1% of people smart enough to not have anything to do with these bottom feeding thieves. Feel pity for the other 99% that will suffer thru the scam.

Been getting calls at my home from Portfolio Recovery Associates everyday this week.  The straw that broke the camels back was a call that came Sunday, 9/18 at 9:00 p.m.

I called this number back. When they asked for account info I said my phone number. A real person came on the line and asked if I knew so and so. After a little local digging we both discovered the truth. Seems a local preachers wife ran up some debt and was having trouble. The number the collection agency used was the one they had 14 years ago and then I had a phone line installed and naturally I got their old number. I'm not saying it will stop the calls but at least now I know who and how they get me involved.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/51D7DD5B- ... allADAD_FAQ.pdf

WHEN ARE ROBOCALLS LEGAL?
1. What is a robocall and how does it work?
A “robocall” is when you answer your phone and find that you are listening to a recording. These calls are placed by machines which are called automatic dialing announcing devices (ADADs or robocalls). They store hundreds, even thousands, of telephone numbers, and then dial them automatically and play a recorded message.
2. When can robocalls (ADADs) be used? What companies or agencies can use them?
Robocalls are only legal when introduced by a live person unless:
1) You are a member or a client of a company or organization that uses them to deliver messages (such as an announcement about a sale) or; 2) The police, fire or emergency service agency uses them to contact you about an emergency.
If you want to read the law, see Public Utilities Code sections 2871-2876.
3. What about the robocalls I get around election time about political candidates or other election issues?
Political candidates or others supporting candidates or ballot issues also must follow the law and about using Robocalls, which is found in the California Public Utilities Code, Sections 2871-2876.
4. What can I do if I receive a robocall that I think is illegal?
1) Call your local telephone company to file a complaint. You must give them the name of who called and if possible the telephone number of the robocaller (it may be provided in the message.)
2) Your telephone company will then tell the business that it is not following the law and may give it some time to correct the problem.
3) If the business does not correct the use of the robocaller by the time given by the telephone company, the telephone company can disconnect the phone line.
4) If you are not satisfied with the telephone company’s response to your robocall complaint, you may contact the CPUC’s Consumer Affairs Branch by filing a complaint online at http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/forms/Complaints/ or by telephone at 1-800-649-7570 or in writing to:
California Public Utilities Commission Consumer Affairs Branch 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102-3298

Thanks for the tips, but that's for California.

PS---to the person that gave the scam-caller personal info to help them track down an alleged old phone number. One word ----SUCKER.

they call all the time i donot owe anyone please help me stop it thanks

I wish they would stop

Please stop

Caller I.D. says UNAVAILABLE, but messages says it is from Portfolio Recover Associates.  JERKS called from about five different numbers probably 50 times over the last two years and here is the kicker.  It is to my business phone number that I got two years ago when I moved within town and the phone company gave me a new business number.  My number used to  belong to a deadbeat.  I have no debts and never had.  I have not had one amount due past month end for decades as I pay all bills in full.  I have talked to these people many times and told them to call the phone company to verify that the number is assigned to my company, enter the number online and my company website shows up, etc.  JERKS keep on calling. They must be paid by the call because they are spending time without hope of collecting since they have a wrong number.

This "Portfolio Recovery", has been calling me, several times a day lately,about a credit card debt ran up by my "EX" wife. I've been divorced from her, for OVER 14 YEARS!
 I refuse to answer their phone calls. I learned what the debt was, they were after, from a letter they'd also sent to me.
 This particular collection agency must be the absolute WORST, and not to forget, DAMN DUMBEST ONE on the planet!?!
 One................... Being divorced from this person, for over 14 years now, I'm sure not responsible for ANY of her self inflicted debts and P.Recovery, I'm sure, is well aware of this.
 Two, in the state I live in, there is a set "statute of limitations on debts owed", of five years, After this time, someone "may try", but they cannot us any "legal means" to collect the debt.
 OBVIOUSLY then, what this complete LOOSER of a company does.................is "but up old, written off, way past the statute of limitations to collect, "dead debts" for probably something like..............".39 cents on the dollar" and then PRAYS LIKE HELL, they can at least collect a little something from some poor soul they overly intimidate into paying them.
 NOT............this guy, however!
  The last time they called me, I have caller ID so I knew who was calling before I picked up my phone. When I answered, and some hard to understand woman began to speak I blew my super high dba Police whistle, into the receiver and they haven't called back, yet!

got a call today.  i didn't answer (it just said "Toll Free Call").  no message was left.  i wonder if the "debt collection agency" has modified their M.O.?

Didn't answer the call.  I don't owe anything to anybody so I know it's a scam.  I will report this to the famous 'Do Not Call' list as a violation for all the good that will do.  '800 Service' is was was displayed on Caller ID.

claim to be trying to collect a debt, but have the wrong joel wright

Oh gee, not again, we went through this years ago. We're in Canada and my husband shares the same name as some guy in New York. Five years ago we got a flurry of phone calls about this guy's debt. They'd say "give us your social security number and we'll clear this all up." First, he doesn't have a ss # because he has never worked in the US! Second, even if he did, we would never give the #. Our address has never been in the phone book so we never get a letter. We got the harassment to stop only after filing a police complaint and by having my brother-in-law lawyer write a cease and desist letter. Looks like we're going to have another round of harassing calls as they started again last night.