Thank you for the information!! after two years it gets pretty annoying. the person who gave the false information should be ticketed and fined. Thanks for listening!!

This is a message board for discussing spam and scam phone calls.  Your calls are not coming from anyone here.

Your pest is probably looking for the person who had your number before you got it.  Or they may be looking for someone who gave a false phone number for something.  He may never give up.  Ask your phone company if the calls can be blocked.

I'm assuming that you are trying to leave a message for whom ever it is that is calling you because this is a discussion board only and has absolutely nothing to do with who your caller is or in facilitating any calls.
People come here to discuss unwanted callers,  not contact them.

This number has been calling here for the past two years. Nobody lives here by that name and we are NOT related to  this person. Please take us off your contact list but this dose not seem to work. How long is this going to take to get you to Not call us. (Wrong Number) !!!

Consumers across the country report that they're getting telephone calls from people trying to collect on loans the consumers never received or on loans they did receive but for amounts they do not owe. Others are receiving calls from people seeking to recover on loans consumers received but where the creditors never authorized the callers to collect for them. So what's the story?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:
Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.

Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.

Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft ? charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.

Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate ? but you think the collector may not be ? contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.

Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.>

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt076.shtm

These morons just called looking for my son... My son has never taken out a payday loan ever in his life....he has payed his student loans... Which was hardly anything because he went on a full scholarship... I smell a scam... Funny how these jokers always come around during the holiday season... Merry Christmas scammers you're not getting nothing from us..! We owe nothing to anybody and we do not carry credit cards for that reason alone ...so where is the debt you say he owes..? You don't.... He lives here at home welching off his parents..! Try,try again idiots..! P.S. When you call back the number it's a totally different company who is not into collections smells like a rat to me...!

Ms. Jackson called me telling me that I owed a payday loan from 2007.  I told her that I had no recollection of a payday loan and asked her to send me documentation to verify the debt.  She said it had been sent in February (I never received anything) and she did not have to send anything else.  After a few choice words, she decided not to talk to me anymore.