877-629-8650

They called, left an empty message. I called the number back to find out who they were, got a machine, hung up. About twenty minutes later, I got a call back from someone with a heavy Indian accent, who initially refused to identify his company for "privacy reasons." He asked me for personal info, I told him I didn't feel comfortable giving out info without knowing who I was speaking with. Eventually he admitted the name of the company was "Allied Interstate." Some Googling reveals this company was fined $1.75 million by the FTC in 2010 for illegal debt collection practices. The man said he had no record of his company contacting me. I do not owe any debts besides student debt, which is being paid on time. If you get a call from this number, don't give them any personal info, no matter what they say.

It is Allied.  They are outsourced and have horrible collection practices.  I have an account that has been in the "collections" stage for wayyyyyyyy over ten years which technically means they should not even be contacting me anymore due to statute of limitations.  I don't understand.  They called the other day and I answered.  He said he had a personal business matter that was was not able to discuss with me until I provided my SS#.  I called him a few choice names and hung up and will not answer another call from them again.  Time to figure out how to get this off my credit report.  Ridiculous.

No message left. I don't answer calls, if I don't know who they are from. They called on Christmas Eve, what kind of business does tha?!