I just received a call w/ message on my voice mail... Caller wasn't even speaking english.  Message was left in Spanish, not a darn clue what they said!

I had a call that came in and all it said was New York 716-213-4567 what company is this

It's not that personal. The left and right hands are not on speaking terms in Mumbai.

My advice for "not me" cases hearing collection calls is found here:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls

The federal Do-Not-Call registry exists to help enforce the Telemarketing Sales Rule. Please note the operative term ''marketing''. A debt collector is not a sales person and is therefore not covered. Here are the DNC service terms you were supposed to review at registration time:

National Do Not Call Registry Q&A
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry

If you want a collection agency "stopped in its tracks", you have to set the traps and stop it yourself. That means learning your rights and using them, not just filing reports and waiting in vain for a rescue.

Official-type material on US federal collection law:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ... bt%20Collection

Okay, thanks for the memo. Meanwhile the rest of us will avoid that website since it does not create a paper trail, just the way lawbreaking collectors like it. Don't come back here crying this summer that FSA denied your rights in your rush to pay unverified debt.

By "very early" are we talking before 08:00 in your time zone, an illegal act you can sue over?

FDCPA § 1692c. Communication in connection with debt collection
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1692c

I really hope that's not your personal phone number you've stupidly published as a user name. I've asked Admin to redact your comment ... which again is NOT going to be read or understood by your callers. If you have a problem with FSA, you need to confront the agency *directly*. This has already been covered before ...
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-716-213-4578/4#p394337047146462220

Person Dont leave here.

This is FirstSource. They are a collections agency trying to collect a legitimate debt from me. Their website is fsapay.com

calls me very early in the morning and never leaves a message

It appears they are still at it.  I just got a call from them asking for a woman I have never heard of.  How stupid do these people think we are?

Call your bankruptcy lawyer and demand he get an injunction or court order from the bankruptcy court clerk and serve it on the collection agency. It is illegal to call someone while in bankruptcy or after.
Demand your lawyer take action or tell him you will file a complaint against him at the bar association for not doing his job.

Your full of bullcrap. Someone calls me, I an under no obligation to give them any information about myself.
They need to do their own job. Not me do it for them.
One simple call to telephone directory assistance to verify who's name the phone number is in.
People / debtors move. Phone numbers are reassigned. Calling a phone number on some old out of date application repeatedly after being told the number has been reassigned and no such person is at the location. That's crazy .

Never send a collection agency any information what so ever !
You should NEVER provide a collection agency information they can use against you.
The collection agency is responsible for proving thier case . Your not suppose to prove it for them !
Always remember---  COLLECTION AGENCIES LIE  !!!!!

They pretend to agree to a settlement then they sell your debt to another collection agency who then starts harassing you.
Never trust a collection agency. They  LIE !
Never give your banking information to them for so called auto payments. They will empty your account's.
Never talk to them on the phone. Make contact with collection agencies by u.s. mail only. Get  ALL agreements in writing. NEVER make a verbal agreement with a collection agency !  They LIE

Thank you

Here are other phone numbers they use:

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/7162134502
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8774205095
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8668805589

We appreciate your concern and would like to be of assistance. If you are comfortable with email communication, please write to us at team.fsl@firstsource.com and we shall do our best to assist you in remediating your concern. Best Regards, Team FSL

pls stop calling me from this number,  as I do not know any reason they would call me to begin with! Stop wasting my air time

Calls continue after my requests to stop calling.They leave voice mail messages, but no one answers when calling back.

They've been doing the same thing with me... Stating they're with Kaplan. Despite hanging up on them multiple times and telling them I do not want to talki, they continue to call!

I have been getting numerous calls asking me to press buttons, i hang up. after about 6 calls in 2 days, i answered. They wanted to know the last 4 numbers in my SS! These calls are not wanted, I am on do not call list and if someone is phishing, I want them STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS and maybe protect me and others! Reporting to BBB and FEDERAL TRADE, I suggest you all do the same!!

Got a call from these people, don't know why as I owe no monies to creditors and have asked them to stop calling this number as this is a place of business and we have none with them.  This is the number that comes up on caller ID.  Strange that when I've also looked this number up it comes up for a DJ too?

713-213-5567

they call every day i dont know who they are?

These people are rude and relentless. Have been calling me for at least 3 years over a charge that was not even mine. Now I find out through my credit source that they have attached a bad credit report on my  my credit score for a bill that I did not even incur.  Am waiting to hear from the credit bureau on this matter. They are going to help me get these people. This was all done illegally.

Asked for person and of they were born in a particular year.

Your caller does not maintain this site or this web page. Your caller is not going to dutifully study random forum complaints and cannot magically determine which numbers should not be called based on anonymous comments.

For a ''not me'' case your best option is sending a ''cease-communication'' notice via USPS Certified with return card, as discussed previously in this thread.

} if you had money for lawyers then you probably wouldn't be getting debt collector calls

1.  Thanks so much for the implication that everyone reading this thread is deep in debt from "avoiding responsibility". The many "wrong number" complaints here indicate otherwise.

2.. Nobody needs a lawyer to hold your hand while you send letters demanding debt validation and/or phone call cessation.

3.  Should a dispute with a debt collector escalate to a courtroom, the FDCPA permits consumer plaintiffs to shift their legal expenses to the loser. Consumer lawyers commonly work such cases on contingency.

} consumer protection laws are a joke

You must have heard a different punchline. My friends and I have been using those "joke" laws for years to both silence and wave away lawbreaking collectors, usually in a single stroke. The existing statutes are far from perfect, but the debt industry is mostly too lazy and arrogant to follow even the simplest rules.

} they hate..... I repeat hate to be ignored

... and resistance is futile, right? I don't like being ignored either. That's why your pals at FSA have a new nickname: "Defendant"

Your AG gave the correct advice. The FTC, which oversees the FDCPA, tells you the same thing. Every consumer group and watchdog who is learned in debt collection problems will also match that advice.

Your state AG is not your personal attorney. His time is better spent doing what you cannot, such as getting the worst companies fined and shut down. You cannot expect him or anyone else to manage the many thousands of "shut up" demand letters your fellow state residents must require each month. To best defend your rights, you (or your legal rep) personally need to be able to prove receipt of your letters and be the custodian of your own records.

You're beefing about a USPS fee of less than six dollars when a CMRR card can be redeemed in a courtroom for hundreds or thousands of dollars in damage awards if a scofflaw collector continues to abuse your rights. You are, as the British say, badly in need of a "sense of proportion".

DO NOT CALL!