Oh, I know it is a for collection of your credit/store card if you are either late, or have not made a payment in awhile. I know this name is linked to my Kingsize Direct Big and Tall clothing. Just began getting calls, but they stopped since my payment was in transition. Now, I'll pay online, as the Postal Snail service is leading these calls to come in. Pay your accounts folks, the calls will stop, or talk to them if you have economic hardship and cannot pay etc. They actually do and will listen. The calls have and will stop too. :)
I/we don't have ANY store credit cards, especially any of the ones mentioned on the long post in an earlier post on this site. We started getting calls in mid/late June. One left a message for what sounded like "Brittany Brinkman." This is not her number and we don't know any Brittany Brinkman. Now they are calling multiple times a day. We just shut the phone off. We have been receiving calls for deadbeats who put false information (false phone numbers) on the credit apps for years -- since 2000 for some guy who apparently bought a computer he didn't pay for and applied for a student loan and didn't pay that off, and also in 2004 rang up Capital One for debts he didn't pay, either. My husband has the same first and last name as this joker, but nothing else matches. We've successfully disputed at least 30-plus companies for 14 years now, and are now just tired of tracking everything and sending stuff certified. This is clearly a wrong number with calls for "Brittany" so we just unplug the phone. If it gets worse, we'll successfully sue, just like we were part of a successful class action against Allied Interstate a few years ago and won some money for our trouble. They've already violated the FDCPA by leaving a financial voice mail for "Brittany" on our answering machine. Successfully proving who you are and that a debt is not yours, although a bit involved (affidavits, certified letters, complaints to the attorney general in your state) is the easy part compared to getting these companies to stop calling. Why? Because they are not allowed to communicate about any of the information they buy or sell. SO, after you prove the debt isn't yours, they just sell the incorrect info that they bought … to the next sucker debt buying collectors. And they begin the harassment of innocent people all over again. You prove them wrong, then they sell to someone else. We know first hand. We've been going through this for 14 years, one loser company after another. THE LAWS need to be CHANGED in Ohio and elsewhere that either 1) debt collectors MUST be required to notify future buyers of debt of misinformation (previous wrong numbers, etc.) OR once a debt is past the statute of limitations (and therefore legal proceedings can't be initiated) then all collection activity, including calls, must stop. This would put an absolute end to zombie debt being so lucrative as for companies to keep buying and selling information on consumers that they know is false. No one in America should receive zombie debt collection calls for someone else's debts for 14 years. Nothing in my husband's profile matched the profile of the original debtor … NOTHING. Not address history, middle name, age, work history, ss #, anything. It all started with a lazy skip trace by some bank that gave this loser an internet loan online -- 1st Fnancial Bank (whom we'd NEVER heard of. A lawyer friend of ours got a letter from them, after we filed an affidavit, stating it wasn't us or our debt. Which has cleared us every time the loser's debts are bought and sold to new companies. THE SYSTEM AND LAWS NEED TO CHANGE. If Comenity continues to harass us, we're ready and prepared. Also, nothing ever comes in the mail. That's how you know they've got the wrong person/wrong phone number. They know this, which is why they don't send anything in the mail. They're just hoping phone harassment can press someone with good credit into just paying someone else's zombie debt. That's how they make their money.
WTF!!! The 913-312-05183 # dont know when 2 stop calling me. Is like they have no life. Than they used thiz stupid # 720-456-3698 thinks i dont know the difference. Stupid [***] stop calling coz i dont pick up unknow calls.
In the span of 1 hour I got 3 different phone calls from Comenity Bank debt collector. I have an East Coast phone number but live on the West Coast, they start calling me at 6am!! I have even told them not to call back, and that it was 6am and they stated because I have an East Coast phone number that its not breaking any laws. One in KS 913-312-5184, OH 614-212-5298, & CO 720-456-3698. Never leave a message, I bought something from HSN for $250 back in Decemeber. I've paid $175 since then. I went online this morning ( My payment isn't due until the 16th of next month) and some how I owe $200 still!! WTF.