These are some sort of scam operation. They have an address from about 5 years ago & say I ordered 10-15 magazines & now they are collecting. Never happened! I usually don't answer & they leave no message.
I just put them on call blocking. I have better things to do than sit around wondering what they are calling for. Most of these outfits are calling from a list of bad debts they find through the credit reporting agencies or bad debt databases where they 'bid' for the debt.
Many times, if you have recently gotten a new phone number, they are fishing for information and won't believe you're not the person they are looking for. I had a clinic, social services, a gynecologist, a dentist and numerous bill collectors calling me for some woman that I never met. It took me three changes of my phone number to finally get one that hadn't previously belonged to such a popukar person.
Another thing i would strongly suggest if you ARE dealing with bill collectors is to record all of your calls and keep a call log. Report any violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to your state's department of commerce or whatever entity licenses out of state businesses. In my state, they will suspend the license of the collector for a minimum of six months and apply a fine of $1,000 per violation to the collector if they get enough complaints. I did this ten years ago with a collection agency from Kansas. It cost them a heckuva a lot more than the $1,100 they were trying to collect and the fun part was that I didn't owe the bill to begin with.
They are obviousy another one of those Scavenger companies that tries to collect on owed debits they bought for mere pennies on a dollar Thats why its not unusal for them to Reduce the amount owed if Paid right then during the Reduced offer Making it seem like a Sale that expires right after call is complete So the person will be Encouraged to act right now, right then and the heck of it Is the Debt was never even owed to them in the first place ! Then what happens is Rep, Agent actually just a front line call center person makes a percentage of What ever is collecte, Now on another link its implied that in someway they have an association with Porfolio Recovery thats what a different link indicates.
I get calls on my cell phone almost every day from this #. I am not the person they are looking for and actually the call is rejected. Finally someone left a message with their name. Thanks for all your info. I'll try to call them .
Just another one of those companies that in their own mind they Think they are Special and maybe in their world they are but their Not in anybody elses world. Now sometimes companies call simply to see If and when someone may answer their calls and thats why they call at all different times then that provides information to the person who wants to call and make contact so be aware of that one that Maybe what some of their calls are doing, Now another thing is Be Aware there are Statutes of Limitations on debts and those varie state to state and sometimes the Statute of Limitations are Much shorter than you relize or think I'm sure there must be links on the Internet that provide Debt Statutes of Limitations by state and having known a couple people that worked in that Industry at one time helps because they said when they did that Collection Job it was common practice to use tactics that upset the person into paying and often they would give a spectacular reduced amount If the person will pay right Then while on phone, Just like TV comercials that put a sense of urgency in them