Portfolio Recovery is company... a business. Business owners use a service called Better Business Bureau (B.B.B.) for special purposes. The BBB is then the place consumers call to complain about a company such as Portfolio Recovery. BBB then sends that complaint information to that company, for a fee. BBB is a service used by business to trick the consumer. We consumers complain to BBB, BBB then sends that info to that company as a courtesy and of part of the services they provide for Business... for a fee. Such a service is used as a "heads-up" sort of thing so the company then knows who is complaining and what the consumer is complaining about. That's about the time that Guido, Tommy Two-Toes, and Three Fingers Louis show up at your door disguised as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Portfolio Recovery indeed. Just called me, asked if I was xxxxx xxxxxx, Which is my correct name, then described a debit I have not incurred, with a company I don't do business with. Then gave a birthdate, which was also incorrect. Then attled off an address in a city that I have never lived. When I asked the "lady" to repeat the birthdate and address she refused, and got very terse with me. Being concerned that my identity had been stolen, she continued to refuse to repeat the address again. Then she asked me to give her the last 4 digits of my social, which I refused. Maybe they are now in some "other" kind of business. Makes you wonder.
Someone from this number called me, did not say his name (or I didn't catch it). He requested my bank account information like I am going to give that out to just anyone. When I asked for a number to call him back, he declined. Sounded like a scammer since he would not leave a number. Claims he is a debt collector.
This is the 16th number I have blocked from my phone for these people. I swear what a bunch of idiots I don't owe you anything every time I ask for verification of the debt to be mailed to me I get a bill saying you owe how every much money they want to ask for and that's it no original debt name or account number nothing what scum
To me - This is just another scam. I never heard about this Portfolio Recovery company. I am blocking this number in my Iphone. I never pick up calls if they are not listed in my contacts. If someone needs to talk to me they can always leave a message - otherwise I am assuming it is scam.
My friend had her Iphone hacked last week. When it happens anybody who pick up her "phone call" would unlock the data to the hackers. She had to get another number and tell everybody to not pick up her "call" ( big mess). Unfortunately, wee need to switch out to new numbers time-to-time to avoid this. Sadly, our Cell or phone numbers in general are not safe anymore.