If you want them to stop calling, do as quite a few people on here have figured out. Tell them to hold on for a second. Then come back to the phone and tell them that you are now recording the call. For some reason they get really upset, and it's funny as hell. They are trying to collect a debt from me from a Victoria's Secret account. I advised them that I'm a 6'4" 265lb man, and that I don't enjoy Victorias Secret anymore. I told them that I've moved on to the Plus Size lingerie. At this point, the woman hung up. My wife was almost in tears as she listened to me!!!
Something I enjoy doing to other solicitors, etc, and I urge you to try this, is to just tell them to hold on while you get your wallet. Just leave the phone laying there for as long as it takes. Go on with what you were doing, and after a while, they will just hang up. They get penalized for being on the phone for long periods of time without closing on a deal. If they hang up and call back, just tell them to hold on again, and do the same thing! Eventually, their supervisor will tell them to stop calling that number.
I got a call from this guy Harry claiming he's calling on behalf of the federal government for student loans. These are scumbags who are debt collectors. What's the procedure to block their solicitation.
We have received four calls from NCO looking for someone named Robert. All calls are either early morning or late night. We get no name from the caller or company name but after four calls telling them each time that there is no Robert at this number I think it's time to file a complaint! I called the number back but only got an answering machine telling me to enter an extention number and no other information. I did a reverse search for the phone number and found that the actual company is a collection company looking for someone named Robert. You know, one phone call or even two is within reason, but four calls to the same number with the same result is ridiculous and now crowding the line towards harrassment. It's not our account, bill, or business.
Caller ID: 215-442-8300 N C O Group Inc
- "Only" 4 calls so far, on 1/23/08, 5.50PM, 2/25 at 1:58 PM, 3/11 at 1:54 PM and 2/25 1.58p(none), and 3/17 1:41 PM to 1:53 PM, and told they're calling from Tenn.
I've been asked for my nephew who hasn't lived here since his college days 30 years ago, but they already knew I was just a relative.
"Levere" at first thought this was in Colorado (I'm in upstate N.Y.) and wanted me to somehow have my nephew call 1-866-662-5601, N C O Group Inc. I told them "Do Not Call me". After several other calls, Mr.Lindsey INSISTED (2 months later) that my nephew had left him a message to call here only a week ago; he said it was a Federal matter, but swore it was NOT a debt collection - apparently lying through his teeth on both matters. Again I officially told them "Do Not Call!!"
- As is perfectly legal here (laws differ in different places) I have them on tape.