Call 3:31 p.m. 7-19.  Didn't answer - no message left.  Caller ID said Home Protection.

Received a call from this number @ 3:16 PM EST today. Also received a call from them  on Friday, Aug 9th @ 6:43 P.M. EST. In either case, I didn't answer. No messages. They always call my cell #. The first thing I do is go to sites like these to see who it was. I've answered enough of these to know that they are telemarketers, so I don't answer. When I do get tricked into answering, I will try to leave as much info on sites like this, to educate others.

I've gotten these calls before from other numbers, saying that they want to install a free wireless home security system. I'm on every "DO NOT CALL" list known to mankind, but they still call. I've even contacted Congress, telling them they could do something useful, like block these calls. I'm not holding my breath.

Thank you for posting this information to this site. I wish these people would stop calling.

I have fun with them when they call me. I take up as much time as I can with them. I give my name as "Gordon Shumway" (google who that is) I give my address as the local women prison, ( i did some work there), I keep them going as long as possible until I tell them I'm just messing with them because they called me and wasted my time. They really hate that.

I have received 3 calls 1 each day starting on 7-31, 8-1 & now 8-2.  They never leave a message.  What good does it do to have your name or # on a Federal & State DNC list if we are still gonna get Robo Calls.

213-788-7627  called .....Did  not  leave  a  message .....Thank

the  Lord  4  a  ringer  "ON"  &  "OFF"  Button :)

#stupidtelemarketers

same deal... home protection agency.  I told her I didn't want one, she insisted I take one for free.  I told her not to call back and she still does.

bogus telemarketer   I do not know anyone in Los Angeles

Also got called by these people. Didn't recognize number so I let it switch off to voice mail. Of course they were gutless and didn't leave a message.

JUNK JUNK JUNK   ----  NON ALLOCATED NUMBER

These people (Home Protection) not only call our home telephone # but also our rent cabin. The people who are renting the cabin right now have had to turn off the ringer as they have received so many calls from this number. I tried to ask this woman to take our home number and the rental cabin number off her list and she hung up on me. We get these types of calls constantly. Regarding our rent cabin...this type of harassment could cause us to receive a bad rating on our rental cabin (which would cost us money in rentals). We offer free long distance at the cabin but if people have to turn off the ringer to get some privacy then they are not getting the full benefit of what we have to offer. How can we get these calls stopped?

Wow  that was a little, long winded wouldn't you say?  I can't even imagine how many emails or letters you send to your local congressman weekly.  

If you don't know the company then don't answer the phone.  It's that simple!  They may call a few times, but they will give up if they can't get a live person.  Trust me, it works!!

Called left no message

I just got the call from 213-788-7627 on my cell. I don't answer numbers I don't know. Plus I also program that number into my cell as SCAMMER. Since, I'm sure they will call again. And I'm on the no call list. Lets put it this way, since I got on that list, I'm getting all these unwanted calls. What a joke.

I received a call from that number.  When I tried to call it back, the automated message said this was an unallocated number.

We have had six calls from this Home Protection number tonight.  We are getting very tired of these calls and would like to know who we can report this harrassment too.

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. Digital hardware call blockers, the popular "DIGITONE Call Blocker 10" for example, could help or do harm depending on how high-tech and aggressive the rogue callers are against your phone number. The more technology you use against them, the more likely they will use technology more aggressively against you to the point where your phone could ring more frequently from rogue calls and in middle of the night hours. So staying lower-tech could actually help to keep your phone a bit more under their unrelenting predatory radar. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit, albeit spoofed calls are backed by governments and corporations, so there is nothing the little guy can do against such illegitimate activities but to block and ignore them. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. ?John Doe? not ?Jonathon Q. Doe? or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited-liability-company+collection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

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These vultures call multiple times a day, many times using different numbers.  "Chelsea" calls quite often.  Always with the home security system thing which we all know is a scam.  Every time you ask them not to call, they hang up on you.  Do not understand why they keep calling the same people over and over when they know those people are not falling for their gimmick.  Is there NO WAY to stop these crooks???  Why do we have to tolerate this?  The "do not call" registry is a joke.  No enforcement whatsoever.

5 calls yesterday from these people. Two today so far but the day is young. Same a***oles, but they keep changing their VOIP phone numbers. "Free" security system?? Sure.. when pigs fly.

I just told Chelsea she was a stupid f**king c**t. After a stunned pause Chelsea said she would have my number removed from their calling list.

.................."from Home Protection, how you doin today?" Hung up.

I just left this message on the phone number 415-844-9336.  I then read the messages on the 213-788-7627 number & decided to add this note:

Chelsea said she was from Home Protection & wanted me to install a "GE Wireless" system in my home at no charge to me as long as I agree to place a sign in my front yard.  I am on the national and state Do Not Call registry.  I received a call two days earlier from a woman whose name was Chelsea (same voice) from the phone number 213-788-7627.  That time I asked her to not call me anymore.  One week before that I had a call from a man at the 213-788-7627 number who said he was from "First Alert" and asked me if I was interested in having a security system in my home at no charge as long as I put a sign in my yard.  I contacted First Alert & the Customer Service rep told me that it was a scam although he didn't elaborate on what the scam was.

Same message "Hello this is Chelsea from Home Protection Svs. Hung up when my answering machine didn't answer as brightly as she did. Had the same call and msg. earlier today from a different phone #. While I really do appreciate this totally free service, I wish it were possible to direct these messages to a centralized "DNC"  list.

Another anoying home protection recorded telemarketer called at 1741 5Feb 2013 and yes I am and and have been on the no call registry and do file complaints. too bad it's not enforced I should be a rich man by now.

So they called and I answered on my DNC line.  "would you like a free home security system from GE in exchange for putting a small sign in my front yard" (not allowed in my neighborhood.)  I asked the name of the company "Home Security Systems", then I asked what state they were in..  CLICK hung up.  I felt cheated, I like to yell at these people.

got the call at 5:30 pm,missed it, then called #,  a recording said number not assigned

Making the rounds in NC.

Called my cell phone, which really makes me mad.  Came up as "Los Angeles, CA."  I did not answer.

b****oles. bad enuff calling my DNC #, but 9p.m. at nite? oh well, that's just what pfishers do.

Caller claimed to be Chelsea from "Home Protection Agency" I hung up.

The name showed up as Rosie.