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This # is calling my close friends home phone asking for me.? When I called to verify who and what they are calling about they want to verify my address etc. No sir, not buying into their fishing ploy. Looks like another modern day scam right here in USA. Where's the government watchdog agencies? Oh, the US Corporate government cares nothing about consumer fraud. The Healthcare marketplace is a joke as well... full of call center scammers. The elderly are at a high risk and shame on the government for these atrocities here in USA as well as their senseless role in their nonstop wars they've initiated around the world. One thing is for sure all Evil oppressors are in trouble spiritually speaking... life is simple do good so good shall follow. MORE LOVE MORE LIFE.

For several months they call my house two - Tree Times per day. I do not owe any money.
This has To stop please.

Block the calls.  I have AVG on my android phone (free) and can block infinite amount of numbers.  I also assign all unwanted calls a Z in my contact list so I can tell when they call.  Works like a champ.  Skrewwwww em.

Basssturds just rang my phone at lunch time on new years eve.  Since they are on my blocked list and I have named them (and all unwanted calls) Z in my contact lists I immediately know it is an unwanted call before the blocker kicks in  AVG has a free app for android devices.

Please quit calling 706-561-3850 do not want you to call me

This number calls us all the time lately, we have never answered as I refuse to answer calls I don't recognize.  If it was really important I assume they would leave a message.  Based on some of the comments here, they could easily be calling and trying to collect debt for someone else, but it is certainly not us as we have no debt.  I continue to ignore the calls and think it's time we get a new home phone that has a blocking feature :(

I just love it.  My grandmother taught ,me that trick years ago.  I, like you have found it to be very useful.

that or they just change the number they call from to one that hasn't been blocked.

Really?  Because it seems to me that very often, when you call after business hours, or on Sunday, you often get a recording to to in regular business.  Hows that for a great big Duuu...

I'm not sure your remark is complete but the best answer for now is that Your Damage May Vary. Some collection agencies maintain Sunday and late weekday hours for live agents and some don't. But that's a different issue from their ability to place calls.

Tracing back, Catherine reported hearing a recording on a Sunday night, shortly before stock curfew hours, asking her to return that call during Penn's business hours, which allegedly did not extend to late Sunday nights. That sounds counter-intuitive. But maybe some algorithm or internal protocol decided that Penn would have success if she was alerted to their desire for money at that hour. Computers don't need food or sleep or medical leave or social lives, so it's no trouble for Penn's autodialer. It's only a problem for Penn once a call recipient states clearly that calls are unwanted.

.... which as repeated many times on this page won't touch Penn Credit because it does not place sales calls.

You can read of many consumer wins from Federal court cases nationwide. Actually most of them settle quietly and end in voluntary dismissal. Once in a while a spectacular damage award makes headlines for punishing outrageous and/or egregious company behavior.

What debt collectors think they know of their controlling laws is fascinating enough for me to haul out this aged post for annotation. The flat-out cease comm must be written, no argument. But the FDCPA also provides alleged debtors with partial control of communication. They may specify given days, hours, and/or places as inconvenient for contact. Notice of these custom rules may be verbal, though I advise print. It's all there in in the first part of §1692c, upon which our studious collector here was evidently not tested. Other agencies also ignore that part, which over time has handed me dozens of violations to add to my lawsuit bonfires.

800Notes is not a messaging service. 800Notes does not send alerts to your callers when you post here, a bulletin board style of website with public access. You must direct your demands to the sources of your unwanted calls.

Second thing, turning out your pockets and crying poverty does not stop calls from debt collectors. You must tell directly them to stop. The law supports your choice. If Penn does not, you gather your phone records and sue them, at little to no cost since FDCPA losers pay all legal expenses.

It's poor strategy in general to make hardship claims. If you're sued for the account the collector will gleefully wave your statements of "I can't pay now" in front of a judge, hoping to translate that as a promise to pay, dissolving your dispute. Sadly there are plenty of lazy and pro-business judges who will agree with that warped logic. Never ask ''How do I pay?'' Always demand, ''Prove I owe!''

It's your job to "please get them to stop the harassing calls". There is ample discussion in this thread and elsewhere of how to make Penn obey Federal law and your wishes.

800Notes is not a messaging service. 800Notes does not send alerts to your callers when you post here, a bulletin board style of website with public access. You must direct your demands to the sources of your unwanted calls.

One more time, Penn Credit is not getting SMS feed from you here and it cannot act upon anonymous complaints. Also one more time, the DNCR does not apply.

National Do Not Call Registry Q&A

These forums are for call recipients to share their experience and optionally offer advice. They are not direct or private channels to the phone bank boiler rooms we comment upon.

No one else reading this page can ''please get them to stop'' on your behalf. Nowhere on 800Notes is such a service promised or suggested. It's your job to manage nuisance calls to your phones. Penn Credit has a mailing address, recently posted for what I am sure was not the first time. It's your right to choke off their calls if you give direct orders.

Strange thing to say, since Penn Credit is already "a collection agency". That spurious five day deadline sounds like false urgency, a favorite tactic of lawbreakers. The only five day stretch you should both worry about is the deadline for sending you a specific kind of dunning letter, as mandated by the FDCPA. A written dispute and demand for validation in reply should tie them in knots if they have nothing to prove as suspected.