Curious how two of the three existing comments describe phone assaults on school system resources. Anyone at a workplace can tell a debt collector to knock off and never call again. The offending agency must obey. That's a vital provision in federal law, since lawbreaking debt collectors target people at the PoE to create a maximum of false shame, gossip, and anxiety. Of course, if you're dealing with fake PDL thugs in South Asia, that cease-comm can be hard to enforce.

Whatever the call source, it's extortion dressed as debt collection. It's very likely the debt claim is somewhere between severely flawed and nonexistent. So please don't punish your employees for "personal" calls they never invited and cannot easily control. My notes from October 2011 on payday loan and "hot check" collectors are linked below.

Fake payday loan collection scams
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-429fb24ec2162e3/ ... -numbers-here-2

See also this FTC alert: "Fake Debt Collectors"
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors

The following will be useful if you have a US domestic collector calling, and will in general help you sniff out the frauds:

official FTC guidance and staff opinions on the FDCPA, PDF copy of the Act
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm

CFPB Q&A on debt collection practices
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ... debt-collection

His name is George Watson. He claims I owe for a payday loan.  I don't.   He has already got some money but will not get anymore.  Plesse watch out for him.  He is very persistant. .plesse dont get (sucked) into his scheme!!!  

We are a school bus co. he calles us as many as 100 times a day, none stop ties up all lines at once.
We called in the employee and put her on the phone and he called her a liar and hung up on her, he cusses at us uses the F word, this is a bad person and needs to be stopped

This number is calling in a row.  Scammer.

281-671-5378 calls this business continuously.  When told he (Jimmy Loop) cannot speak with the employee he asks for he either yells at you, keeps demanding to speak to the person, or hangs up on you and multi-dials my number.  This ties up my phone lines.  This is an elementary school, no one has a right to tie up my lines, our students safety is priority one, and if I cannot call out for emergency services, it presents a major safety hazard for our students.  This must be stopped at once.

Caller has called about 80 times harassing our business. Says his name is Dido Brown.

They don't let up, called my job I work in a school and scared the secretary by saying it was personal, confidential, legal etc, pulled me out of class to give me the message, how do they get where you work, I don't know who they are they say they want to make sure I'm home so I can be served papers.  Can't understand the guy his accent is so heavy.

how do you stop him from calling

Jackie Johnson is calling my work...I want this scammer stopped...281-671-5378

This guy keeps calling our business when we ask him to stop calling our number, he refuses saying it is the only number he has for this person.  I told him that is not my problem and stop calling our business.  He said, he will not stop calling.

He said his name is Nick Wilson with an Indian accent.  He also said he was calling from BFF law firm.

this person called me today and now he want me to pay them I really don't  know  what  to do

These folks have called well over two hundred times to our offices in New England (keeping the exact locale under wraps) in the last week for an employee currently out of a LOA. Like everyone else has said, it is a "Law Firm" from D.F.F.

They have given me many different names of their "business" such as Protections of Financial Fruad of Main Motherboard (right?). They have also stated our employee owes money from two cash advance places for a minor sum of money.

The number is 281.671.5378. It is now time for me to begin calling them back with some phone numbers that will not make them happy.

This number keeps calling my office every day about 100 times a day I called them back and spoke to them and they told me I owed money from some online cash advance. Which I don't, I was called by a Tito Brown, who then had me speak to his manager Jerry.  I spoke to him he gave me false information about myself said I was going to be arrested.  I advised he to send me the info he refused because he stated they already had.  I work for a very large communication company. FBI is involved hopefully we can get some results to stop them from all of this.  I will keep posted

They keep calling my job harassing me. Saying they are Jackie Johnson which sounds like a man from India,heavy accent or Jerry keeps calling me saying I owe them $945. I need to send them $368 today. I told them to send or fax me the information and go ahead press charges, but they keep calling my job. I am not sending any monies to these people. I will just keep telling them I will pay them when I can. Next week when I get paid or the week after and oh yeah I lost the information to money gram to these people. I wish they would just take me to court and be professional about it.

same deal here, calling our company and tying up the phones asking for an employee and saying he owes them money. They call from random numbers and withheld a lot as well. Last time they called I pretended I was the employee and they gave me 281-671-5378 as the number to call their supervisor at. Being the smart IT that I am I decided to have a little fun with them. My phone system will allow me to send out any set of digits I choose from my extension. So I changed my digits to show all 9's, all 5's and kept calling and asking them to talk to the same employee they were calling us to talk to. They dont like this at all, the last time I called I sent out 857-999-3331, one of the numbers they called me from. This seemed to really upset them and they have since stopped, for today at least. The guy on the phone was clearly mad and concerned that I was calling him from "his number" and wanted to know how I did it!.... Too much fun for one day, bottom line, this is a scam.... Dont fall for it and if you have the time, call them back repeatedly and have some fun with them...

when they call for an employee, I take a message, then google the number.  if it turns out to be a scam, I tell them the employee either no longer works here or cannot take calls at work.  if they want a private number, I give them 877-382-4357 -Federal Trade Commission's complaint line.  Don't have trouble with them calling back too many times.  You should try it.

Call,Call,Call Thats all they do I told them to get a job and (Steve) replied I was stupid Idon't know why the Attorney General can"t do anything about these knd of SCAMS

Received over 400 calls from these loosers and do not understand that the person they are asking for does not work here...its a big ol Scam and told them to stick it in the crack of their a**!!!!

Yet they will keep calling, you. They are in India somewhere. I just hang up on them. They are not going to take you to court.

I did a three to the FBI and gave them the phone number they hung up.

The same thing happened on my job. My boss even spoke to them, but that did not stop them from calling. They are a scam. It is not a federal offense for them to call you multiple times. Mr. Jimmy Luke. 281-671-5373 or from Brooklyn NY 718-981-

Got phone call from a "Steve Foster" with a foreign accent from DFF some financial fraud company 281-671-5378 looking for someone who is not me.  I tried to explain that he had the wrong number.  He insisted that he had the right number, since I answered.  "Steve" became rude, so I hung up on him.  He then called back 5 times one right after another, since I kept rejecting the calls.  Now I have a hotel calling me, because someone from DFF legal department keeps leaving messages with my number as the call back number.  I tried calling 281-671-5378 to speak with them about removing my number & was disconnected.

This person named Nick Wilson calls and jams all of our phone lines asking for an employee who has not worked  for our company for more than 3 years.  He was even nasty and cussing at our switchboard operator.

This number keeps calling my office and the number is a SCAM! Not true business number and the calls are crap.  Report the number the FTC and FCC and dont give any of your personal info!

They have called my job at least 30-40 a day and tie up phone lines. This was very embarrassing and when I attempt to call them and ask some questions, they get very irritated and say only they will continue to harras and call, despite them not being able to give any info on original creditor (if there was one). I tell themto just file the lawsuit and I will hire a lawyer when that occurs (lol, like that they will do that). These people are rip off artists and I also gave this number to our local police dept. They even told me that they have had prior complaints but little can be done about it.

They have called our hotel numerous times over the past 24 months harrassing one of our employees.  They continue to call even though she has not worked for us for the past year!  The become more and more agressive with every call.  There has to be a way to stop these people.  I too have found that it is alot of fun just to turn the table and call them and put them on forever hold!  I will do whatever I can to annoy them.

A new number, the same old scam.  I don't even waste my time.  I said sir, please just file the lawsuit, and don't call me again. Of course, he says he sent me the information in the mail 3 times now.   Right,  I am sure it got lost in the mail 3 times.   It is such a joke!   Please don't give these fools the time of day.  Just hang up, and one day they will find a new scam.   This one is getting really old and boring.

I have been dealing with these folks for sometime now. They get More aggresive and will not give me their address. Called me 51 times and my wife more than that. Who will take care of these extortionists?a legit company will give an address AnD send a valid bil, they would not ?? I so.t scared, but OH MY THEY R GONNA TAKE ME TO COURT?  BRING IT!!

This is a scam.  They purchase or steal data from online payday loan stores and then they extort money from the customers.  DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFORMATION.  I like to call them from a blocked number and mess with them though.  Love wasting their time!

This number call me over 32 times within 10 mins saying i owe them money from 2011 (which i dont know).  They even know my bank but they want me to confirm my social security number (which i did not do).  Any info on this number