One of the most common collection scams is for the creditor to actually tell you that they are going to take you to court or have you arrested if you do not make a payment. A creditor can call you and ask for payment, but under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act a creditor is not allowed to threaten to take you to court, to sue you, or have you arrested. If someone does use this scare tactic refuse to deal with them. Let them know that you know what the laws are.

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call you cell phone ask for some one tell them that not you they call you out your name and tell you if  know that person they are

Same story as everyone else. Got a call earlier today from the same people from this number as well 623-443-4520. and i got one from Flatrock MI from this number 734-783-2717. im sure these #'s are all from the same people...

These people keep calling my cell phone and telling me I am eligiable for a government grant up to $7,000.  I persons calling can't even speak English let alone be an American citizen.  They call everyday.  I recently had a death in the immediate family so I did answer it once.  The so called woman government agent was just plain nasty and wanted my personal information which I did not respond to.  I told them to quit calling me as I am not interested in any government grants!  Who can I report them to and what they are doing must be illegal.

A male called me with a thick asian/middle eastern accent and asked for me by name.  He stated that I had received a grant.  I told him I was stopping him as I was not interested.  He got upset and said why are you not interested why are you not interested.....I hung up.

He said F@*% You like 5 times screaming at me when I told him to take me off his list. He kept going on about what are you a rich Bi***? You don't need money. I was calm and asked him to remove my number from his list and that is when he got hostile and using profanity.

DON'T CALL ME

Someone called me from this number with a thick accent asking for me by my first name.  Knowing it is probably a fake bill collector I told him he had the wrong number.  He rudely asked me if my number was ----------- then said it's the right number bi*** just not the right person, so don't say that then hung up on me.

Received a call around 7pm. No one said anything and hung up quickly.