Excellent advice! I cannot emphasize enough that the majority of these calls (often when you phone, the recorded voice will roll over to another recording and ASK FOR EITHER LAST 4 DIGITS, OR THE ENTIRE S/S NUMBER. Any person in the world can go on line and find out the rest of your S/S number. There are bogus sites that will supposedly (if you pay) provide full S/S numbers plus b/dates. They "blame it on the computer--that is, these massive dialer systems." You were wise to block it, and to ask her the last 4 digits. These people are moronic goons who sit in a back room and wait for a computer to blast their screens. Then, they start (if you call back, and I suggest you never return any call unless you know exactly who it is--if it's legit, a voice mail will tell you who it is and you may respond ONLY if it is germane to your life) with the S/Security number (!), or birth date, or full account numbers. Then, it may be (and increasingly IS) passed on to any country, site, city or town and your ID is gone). Thank you for an intelligent post. Protect yourself because these machines are owned by millionaires and the drones get $7./hr. Your life and ID is worth far more.
This company is starting to piss me off to no end. I have been getting calls to my cell from them for months. RPM is the name of the company. And, they are just debt collectors with an automated dialer. They have woken me up twice... and I hate being woken up.
There is something you can do:
1) Politely tell them that they can kcuf themselves.
2) Go to http://www.donotcall.gov and file a complaint. It is illegal for for-profit companies to use automated dialers to call a phone number where the receiver must pay per minute for the call (aka cellular phones). The FCC and the police probably will not act if only one person reports RPM. So, EVERYONE: File a complaint and maybe RPM will learn.
3) Finally, if you feel annoyed, annoy RPM. I am thinking of using my own online auto dialer and seeing how RPM likes it when they keep getting interrupted by annoying phone calls.
Keep getting phone calls on my cell phone from this number. When I go to check the phone, I've been charged $6.60 for the incoming call! don't know anyone from this area code and sure as heck don't appreciate them running up my phone bill!
I don't believe they are debt collectors because I have no debt. would suggest putting cell number on "do not call list" and report suspicioun of fraud to credit reporting agencies.
try calling them repeatedly - that may help.