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Receive a similar message but the message said they were looking for a person whose name I didn’t know and wanted me to call another number to give them their whereabouts! Please! I guess that Do Not Call list doesn’t work! Anyway I block that number! It should be a better way to STOP these scams.

Debt collection calls are exempt from screening against the Do Not Cal list even if the call is not for you. The DNC list applies solely to sales calls or those doing lead generation for a third party. Did you not read the information on what calls were covered when you signed up?

They call and leave a message say they are looking for my sister, but using her maiden name which she hasn't been for several years now.  Saying there has been a complaint and I need to call them back with her whereabouts.  Had this same scam attempted a year or two ago as well.  Definitely a scam.

This is such a lousy attempt at a scam. Some of them are good but this guy is so obviously fake that it's actually laughable.

Nice try, bro.

Don't fall for it. I have all of my debt paid off he is wasting his time.

This is the EXACT same scam that was going on several years back.  I am now being called nearly every morning from this "John Lewis" with the same phone numbers listed here. They call people who have some connection to them trying to make it sound more legitimate, hoping someone will be dumb enough to give them info. on the person.  And they are even using the same person "connected" to me as they did the last time--my ex-husband's ex-wife!

I have been getting the same for a year and a half it is different every time. But lately they have been calling my family about this as well. It stops for 3-6 months then starts again. All scam called cops about it nothing they can do. Gonna call my phone service next and see if I can block the number

I get a recorded call every day stating he has a formal complaint agasinst my daughter and authorities have been contacted. I cannot respond. The number to call is an 855 number but call comes in as 877 number.

Got two calls from 877-826-9760 from a man identifying himself as "John Lewis" and wanted to know where he could find my ex-wife. (Left on voice-mail) I was impressed that the Georgia Congressman might be looking for her..... she probably did scam the government too.

The Mark Wallace, John Lewis “we’ll send  your case to the proper authorities” scam.   History on 800notes. Report them!
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Just because someone on the phone calling you says you owe a debt does not mean you actually owe it.

If a voice on the telephone claims you owe a debt:

1.    Demand the person give you his or her name, company name, and address
2.     Demand a debt validation letter by US mail.  E-mail no good.
3.    Do not pay  the collection agent or anyone else a  dime until the debt is validated

Of course they won’t do this, no scammer ever will, so simply ignore them and block their calls.

If they are bothering you, report them:

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection (Threatening civil proceedings with no intent to follow through, or threatening criminal process in order to collect a civil debt is a  violation of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.)  The same goes for endless telephone harassment

Note that the US Supreme Court in the Case of HENSON ET AL. v. SANTANDER CONSUMER USA INC., has recently ruled that the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act do not apply if the creditor owns the debt in question.  As a practical matter this probably won't effect the kinds of scam debt collectors who often show up on 800notes.  The scam collectors don't give you any information about themselves so it is impossible to know whether or not they in fact "own" the debt in question.  Most do not send debt validation letters and many often say they are collecting for someone else.  So, make the complaint anyway if they are bothering you.  Let the FTC sort it out.

Also contact your local attorney general

If they continue to bother you,  and you know you do not owe any money, tell them that you know this is  a debt scam and that you are making a complaint to the police for extortion.  Once you get a copy of the police report and they call you again , just read out the  file number and the name of the PD or Sheriff’s office involved.   Tell them you’ll be glad to send a copy to them at whatever address the jack***es are working out of now.

You'll probably have to yell at them and talk over them.  Tell 'em  no scammy debt collector is going to push you around.

You have to get tuff with these people because,  being akin to thugs, brute force is (metaphorically speaking).   the only thing they understand.

Leaves message saying they have a warrant for my arrest.  Identifies as John Lewis.  Also calls from 855-303-5660