I just received a phone call from this number. When I answered the phone I said "Who is this?" Background noise. I repeated "Who is this?" Some woman said "Is this K?" I repeated "Who is this?" Woman stated "This is TCI?" I said "What is TCI?" She said that she wanted to talk to K. I told her not to call my number again. She said, "[***], I want to take to K" I repeated that she should not call my number again. I plan on reporting this to the FTC.
The person with the debt are not always deadbeats, they are people who have had hard times, or been screwed by the unfair medical systems in this country, or screwed by immoral/illegal banking and mortgage practices. I have had medical debts that i have settled with the original hospital and doctors, because my medical insurance company wanted to dance around all the bills. They are truly scum. Well now the hospital has written off some the debt, i have paid some of the debt. When the hospital thought the insurance was going to pay, my bill was $150,000 for a week and a half in the hospital and 2 surgeries. When they found out they would not pay for it, the bill became $50,000 which they partly wrote off, and I partly paid. Well i was told that my bills were now taken care of, and that the debt collectors were called off. Well then those scum bucket debt collectors claimed i owe them $150,000 and then i told them it was taken care of with the hospital, so now after showing them that it was written off and paid for, they are saying i owe them $100,000. They are scum, the lowest of the low. The hospital has told them everything was taken care of, and they are still pressing me for the $100,000 which even the hospital says i do not owe them. They are now harassing me and my family, calling me a liar, when my mother says i am not home (which i am not) they tell her you are lying. They are attempting to get money i do not owe them, they have harassed my wife and children as well. So, there are deadbeats out there, but not all the people who they are after have charged up clothes, jewelry, dinners and bar tabs. A lot of people have had a medical emergency, had their identity stolen, lost their job, had their home illegally foreclosed on, or have paid their debts and now have a company trying to trick and/or bully them into "settling" debts that they do not owe.
I recieved a phone call from 1-201-215-2673. They asked for a person which does not live here and when told the woman, she hung up. I called back and ask who they are. TCI. Tech (?) Collect. They insisted on knowing who they called for. When I refused to say, they told me. Apparently they ran the caller ID. She asked why I had called and I told her I wanted to know who was calling my phone and that I wanted to run a search on them on the internet. She said fine and hung up. The search had one hit. This site. TCI is apparently newer or running under some other name or names also.
I received calls from this number, never did they leave a message. I called back the number, the woman on the other end told me that if I kept getting smart she would not remove my phone number, since it was the wrong number! She hung up. I called back, she answered again, she told me to have a nice day and hung up. I called again and a guy answered, he hung up before I could say anything. I called again, and spoke with a different women, who removed my number out of their system. I will be reporting this to the Attorney Generals office first thing in the morning.
I received calls from them every day. Today I pick the phone up and a women asked my name and hung up. I called back, and asked a man to remove my phone from their data base, but he Refused and hung up. I called again and spoke with a women, she said that she called, calls and will call me tomorrow again! She did not explain what she wants and why she calls me! I asked my phone company to block their phone number and will let a police department to know about their calls.