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It is a debt collector who was trying to collect debt on what I can only assume as an old cable tv account for my ex wife.6+yrs ago. When I called them back after continous calls, I asked to be removed from their calling list. We will see what happens. I spoke to an AKA Kendra Hilton. In the middle of her yelling at me, I was able to obtain a physical address of the Corp. Office, I question the authenticity of it, but, she told me it was 140 Corporate Blvd. Northfolk, Va 23502.I traced the call using my *57 feature. When I tried to tell her that if she continued to call I would further address it, she said to quit threatening her. LOL. Their Co. is the one that should maybe try a better tactics and business practices than calling, yelling and hanging up on you. They might be a bit more productive and actually help people pay off and satisfy old debt. JACK [***] in my opinion!!

Ditto, I did TM for 10+ yrs. It's not cool how they treat people. It's more than likely a boiler room type a situation.

Exactly Geoff.  Because someone has a old bank or retail credit card  information doesn't mean they own the debt.  It would be like me making a official document up on my home pc and sending it to you stating you owe me money because you have a VISA card  which I happened to find the basic acct information in the trash or online somewhere.  You don't owe me squat but maybe I can fool some saps into paying something?  Its a scam while what I point out would be illegal for me to do its somehow acceptable and sanctioned to allow this scam through lack of government intervention and kissing ass to lobbyist.
As well when you send for validation make sure that they explain the exact amount they claim you owe and how they calulated later charges and interest, not just the total amount but they must explain how the charges are calculated.  These guys are crooked as hell.  The people calling are helpless suckers that might be working at Wal-Mart or Burger King next month in their little cubicles.  The crooks are at the top.

Very true Golden Girl.  Best not to answer the phone at all.  One of their favorite tricks that works is acting like they can't pronounce a persons last name they are looking for, so they say it incorrectly .  Usually the person on the other end corrects them with the proper way to say the name and bingo!  They know they have the persons correct address or the person they are talking to knows who ever they are searching out to harass.  Say nothing don't answer best course of action.

Cate this isn't unique to PRA in regards to the USPS not deploying a single employee to stand around for hours for mailers/customers who have a large volume of signature mail.   For instance most large mailers have PO pickup, a PO box, or a mail room at their office.  A postal employee is not going to stand their waiting for 2,000 pieces of certified mail to be signed for every day on top of express, and registered mail.  In my example I will use the NRA  or Fannie Mae who both receive copious amounts of return receipt mail daily, Mondays are even worse .  But this is not some hush hush deal with these scum bags at PRA.
You are correct on the rest.  Any numbered signature required mail is called a accountable.  This mail is handled separately from normal first class non signature required mails.  Accountable mails is separated from other classes of mail from posting to delivery.
A numbered piece of mail is registered by all handling employees and can be tracked rather the green cards are returned or not.

They called me on a Sunday?!? Trashbox b!+€hes

SEEMS TO ME these people,who are being harassed ,might have cause for class action maybe the government would like to no about some of these representations

Exciting day, Monday! Portfoolio Recovery experts called our home for the 445th time since their lawyer wrote us , more than 3 years ago, that they had "decided to cease collection efforts." Big words. Maybe the people who work there do not know what they mean.

In any case, you do not owe these bottom feeders a single penny. They paid for a print-out of written-off debts. The lawyer admitted the so-called debts cannot be verified. It may have been you, and then again, it may not have been you. In any case, the so-called debt is likely years past the statute of limitations in addition to being unverified. So, they paid for these print-outs, and that was their decision to make, but it is not your problem. Let them go pound sand.

Do not pick up the phone when they call. If you do, then do not speak with them, do not answer any questions, do not engage at all. Hang up. If their calls really need to stop, then send them a cease and desist letter, with return receipt requested.

I don't know what is going on in our country here ... seems like no law and/or accountability toward these people who make harassment calls. I wish they can be caught and punished.

Another Portfolio Recovery number...blocked.

Problem solved.

Wow! From December 2013 to August 2014, no reported calls from this Portfoolio number, and now, here we are, back in business at 859-586-9557. Wonder how they decide to use or not use any particular one of their hundreds of numbers?  This was call #583   !!!!!    since their dopey lawyer, Pearson, wrote me a letter four years ago, stating they had "decided to cease collection efforts" on this unverified "debt" from 1997. Take a long walk, Portfoolio, off a very short pier.

Why not simply go out, get a consumer lawyer who will work on a contingency basis, and sue them.  You have the proof, and they will have to pay his fees.

They call me all the time.  They've never sent me anything, are very vague on what I supposedly owe, and whom I owe it to.  After reading all these posts, I am very grateful that my answering machine takes their calls.  The cowards never leave a message.

This is interesting--they called me at 8:21am on a Sunday! They DO have lots of numbers--you're right. And, I know for a fact this call isn't for me: it's for another family member, but they called on my cell phone number. No message left yet...2 minutes from the call and counting. I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, so they can have at it!

Unwanted call from 859-586-9557

Unrelenting, harassing.

This number called at 830am on Sunday morning! what [***]! This is another Portfolio Recovery number! PRICKS!

Call constantly. No message. Looks like another add to the reject list.

I think I had asked Cate this same question a while back--and she said she preferred not to do anything. My family has their share of dealings with them. They are the equivalent of a massive bureaucracy, are slick, slimy and oily-- and the only way to deal with them is to let them hang themselves--as we did. When they couldn't, wouldn't and didn't provide the documentation the IRS demanded to back up their bogus 1099-C, they defaulted.

oh it would be so nice if they was calling some one that really owed them money i think most of these idiots that answer the phone were born with cotton in there ears if i tell these idiots once i tell these idiots 50 times you have the wrong person im going to contact a lawyer and some office manager will be paying me a large fee for one thing the calls are getting eariler and eariler and yes the word bottom feeder is to kind for these people to be harrased and bullied for some thing you know nothing about what a bunch of heartless pond scumb people