800-900-1380

Could barely speak clearly, looking for a wrong person, told them, wrong name & number, but, they keep calling.  They used swear words F#@K You.

We've been receiving calls from this number for the past week -all of them for my grandmother.  Every call is the same:  Calling from Penn Credit on behalf of Publishers Clearing House and we owe them $30.75 and have five days to pay.  We've never done anything with PCH and that makes us think it's a scam -hopefully.  I called the number back and when no one picked up, the responding message was "Thanks for calling (silence) we cannot take your call, please call again later.  Bye"
Not sure what it is, but it's both frustrating and a bit frightening.

got a call from this company saying they are Penn credit and looking for a ex son in law.. divorced over 10 years ago..who has never lived in Utah.. there is no connection to us and him and he has never used our new number.. i am so sick of of this phoney do not call list crap.. the gov does nothing to stop them.. it is a black hole for gov to spend tax money on a service that does nothing for us..

Resident, i must applaud you, in your ability to speak the truth. Well said post and everyone on here should read and understand this.

Debt collectors are NOT telemarketer's, they are collecting a debt that you have/had, reference that was provided by someone you know, etc....As for Sunday's, if you politely tell us you want no calls on Sunday's we must oblige, if you tell us you do not want anymore calls, then tell them, but be ready to verify the number you do not want to call or we will still call it.

Hanging up will just produce another call later, answering, identifying yourself and saying "I do not want anymore phone calls to *********** will suffice most creditors if they are reputable.

I show little patience for people who forever demand for someone else to solve their problems. But let us not assume that all debt collection agencies are legally compliant and responsive to consumer concerns. I'm never less than polite and articulate when debt collectors call here, yet I've had the same aggravating experiences as others report from a wide swath of agencies, whether they skip trace for strangers or hunt for my assets.

One assured me that overly aggressive and fearmongering skip trace calls would stop within three days. Barely over 72 hours later, they called again with even worse scare tactics, and I had to repeat my "not me, stop calling" speech like no one listened the first time. Another got pissed and insinuated that I must be lying about being a stranger to the alleged debtor, who can be found in five minutes via any search engine. Another called my parents and blabbed about a person's so-called debt.

Other agencies would not stop calling and writing to places and at times I had banned in writing, despite Certified Mail delivery. One had a rep lie to my face about its call pattern. Another time my phone line was seized and not allowed to regain dial tone. I've had agencies call in clusters per hour or several times a day. Some hide behind temporary or spoofed local numbers, or choose to display a "blocked" or "unknown" Caller ID. Many have dialers ring and hang up before anyone can respond for weeks on end. Another called all week and consistently put me on hold for up to five minutes before disconnecting without transfer to a human rep.

The above incidents and many more disruptions to my peace represent the majority, not the minority, of collection agencies contacting me. Yippee for you if you found work with one which tries harder to avoid getting sued. Don't come to me for commiseration with the industry as a whole. Debt collectors are paid better and faster when they bend and break laws, a belief reflected in their business models.

Just an aside here: Debt collectors and telemarketers do resemble each other in certain respects, despite how the law treats them. They each rely on their own forms of lead generation, predictive dialers, teaser and "closer" calls, weekly and monthly profit targets, commissions and bonuses as compensation, and a system of competition and reward incentives for top performance.

I'm sure you do. You'll have to share that with the call source. Anonymous complaints here won't get that done.

To halt the misfired skip trace calls, laying a paper trail is far more effective than verbal denials. My advice for "not me" cases is found here:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls

No one else reading this page can ''stop this call'' on your behalf, as already explained on this page and sixteen days prior.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-900-1380/33#p780057467415528713

tsk, tsk .... That's nearly two hours past the legal limit, per the FDCPA.

§1692c. Communication in connection with debt collection
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1692c

Anyone at a place of employment can tell a debt collector to stop calling or else give notice that its calls are not welcome. The alleged debtor can sue the offender if this is disobeyed. FDCPA claims may already exist for repeatedly pelting multiple PoE numbers until someone responds with an open checkbook.

In time a creditor might also sue you if you take only a "block/ignore" stance. The agency should have sent you a dunning letter by now. Be sure not to miss your thirty day window for disputing, or collection can continue as though the bill you're protesting is valid.

"The gov" gave you a set of laws 37 years ago to solve your own problems with debt collectors. Know them and use them. As to the not at all "phoney" Do Not Call registry, I don't have time for the hundredth lecture on the fact that it only covers sales calls.

FTC and CFPB material on US federal collection law:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ... debt-collection

National Do Not Call Registry Q&A
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry

"Five days to pay" or what? They'll surcharge fifty cents? Debt collectors don't get to set time limits for payment, and Grandma should have received a dunning letter by now. It should state that she has a month to seek validation, which is not to be overshadowed by any arbitrary "pay by" date.

FDCPA § 1692g. Validation of debts
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1692g

You may have a dead easy cause to sue. No one is to be abused by debt collectors, regardless of who is thought to owe.

Debt collectors are notoriously deaf to verbal requests. To halt the misfired skip trace calls, laying a paper trail is far more effective. My advice for "not me" cases is found here:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls

Got one out of the blue.  Didn't answer, no message left.

This company calls at all hours,does not leave messages, so after googling the number  and this web site,I contacted our financial institution ,who has done several checks on our credit and found nothing in debt..nothing..we have no debt..the bank called this company to stop the annoying no purpose calls..the bank is now getting calls and no messages at all hours...every time they call I call the bank and they do a check and call the company to knock it off..the company calls the bank..the banks
lawyers are handling it now..the lawyers said the Penn credit is on a "fishing expedition"...I have lived here for 34 years and owe nothing...

Please stop calling my phone.

they called for daryl no daryl live her i told them over and over  i wil get lawyer

No one here is calling you.  Invest in a call blocker and do not pick up on calls you do not recognize.

These people do not give up.  The person they are looking for at my number does not live here nor has this phone number.  I do not know this person they are calling.  Why do they keep wasting their time trying to reach someone that does not have this number when they are told.  I have no debts and hate being bothered by someone else who debt is not my business.