Big companies like this can also pay for all of your information on line.  And you are right- they will call your emergency contact.

Calls and hangs up, does not leave a message.  About three times a day.  When most people are working. When I call the number. Unprofessonal answering machine message. No name of company or what they do.  To me I beleive is a scam.  Went  to BB complants, and found that they go after mostly elderly and fixed income.

Kim from 800-917-9304 called this morning and would just say the call was regarding a personal matter. I said you can't give me the company name, no disrespect to her but that is fn ridiculous.  I called back and Kim answered the phone saying the company name of Safety Recovery Services.

I keep getting same call and I do not answer and then they hang up and do not leave a msg.  Today I picked up and they asked for me by first and last name and I said tell me who you are first and he would not just repeated my name and I said you keep calling and don't leave msgs. why is that?  He then asked me if my birthdate was a certain date and I told him to send me something in the mail I am not confirming anything over the phone.  He started mubling something while I was hanging up.

People need to google their names as well as their phone numbers and places like Spokeo that show up, they need to remove that info. Facebook accounts should also be checked to make sure their private info is not public.

The laws only allow x things to be done, some of these company's are abusing the laws.

http://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassin ... ou-need-to-know
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ...
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection

Most companies now use skip tracing and it shows all numbers and names of persons associated with you

Got a call from this number and the caller's intro was totally unintelligible. Sounded like a bad connection which I blamed on my cellphone. He gave his name again which I still didn't hear very well and then asked for me by name. He then began to ask me to verify my identity. Wait...who is this?? His response was that if I refused to identify myself, he would be ending this call. And then he hung up on me. Strangest call I've received...

Called 3 times. no message. I don't call numbers who leave no messages

They call me 9 times in a day, maybe more. NEVER leaves a message,but can hear people on the line. I should see about harrasment calls for the breathing. Stalkers?

800-517-9304 called and hung up. Called back, JP Recovery, on a nonexistent debt. Filed a report with the FTC

Calls many times with no messaging.

800-517-9304, keeps calling, no message.

Because YOU are perfect, I assume.  Put your meaningless comments on your friends fb posts.

888-461-0115  Another number to avoid

Same here!

called and left no message

They called for not even a second and then hung up. Did not leave a message and they were very rude on the phone when I called back to see who it was. They say JP recovery services and I owe a bill to the Cleveland Clinic. I owe nothing to them. Actually I have a credit with them.

Maybe "Nan" is Grace.  But here's another message for "Nan"...medical bills do not always come at a financially opportune time.  Sometimes people stuggle at the lack of medical insurance or the crazy high deductibles we are now all experiencing.  Try getting hit with a $2500 annual deductible and see how that affects your financial situation.

Really Nan??? How did you get to a post about a collection agency? How did you know about this number? Keep your judgments to yourself.

Only if you actually owe the bill, and to the original creditor.

Pay your bills and they won't call you.

Contact the attorney general and FTC file a complaint. I did it works! They will stop!

Report them to your attorney general and FTC.

If u wonder how they got your number, here's what the idiots do. I wondered how a collector got my elderly parents phone number and started harrassing them for MY medical bill. When I thought about it, I figured it out. There was only one place on Earth that anyone I do not know could have gotten my parents unlisted number to contact them about me-they were listed as my emergency contact when I was admitted through the E.R.!! Whoever you list as your emergency contact when you go to the hospital is who these idiot medical bill collectors call. That's really low-life to call someone's elderly parents, or any other relative and should be considered an invasion of privacy. I dont have the money for an attorney or I'd sue the b*****ds for invasion of privacy and harrassment because they have no right to call anyone's emergency contact to collect a bill! By calling your emergency contact, they are doing so without your permission, without the contact's permission and divulging confidential information about you when they call your emergency contact! If they call your emergency contact, tell that person to tell them they will be legally charged if they call there again and hang up.

The info provided by Dale on June 26, 2009 is accurate.

Caller ID #: 800-517-9304
Other phone numbers:
   (888) 461-2700
   (888) 694-6903

Additional info from BBB:

Business Management
Mr. John P. Murray, Vice President
Mr. John P. Beirne, President
Ms. Stephanie A. Evers, Collections Coordinator
Office Manager Ms. Nancy McMurtrey

Phone: (440) 331-2200
Fax: (440) 331-2228

Alternate Business Names:
JPRS
Patient Financial Solutions

Business Category
COLLECTION AGENCIES
BILLING SERVICE

BBB file opened: October 05, 1998
Business started: 02/01/1998 in OH
Business incorporated: 02/25/1998 in OH

I am getting voicemails and hear no talking, just someone breathing. At least the 4th time in the past 6 weeks or so.

It's JP Recovery Services... debt collector for various companies. Cleveland Clinic, for me. They have left me multiple voicemails in which no one talks... I just hear heavy breathing and typing. Creepy, regardless if I owe money or not.

Left a message asking to call back. Here is some other information about them.
Caller ID #: 800-517-9304
Other # 888-236-7619

20220 Center Ridge Rd Ste 370
Rockey River, OH 44116-0749
City is on the far West side of Cleveland.
Caller: J.P. Recovery Services
Caller Type: Collection Agency

Left a message asking to call back.

"Grace" also called me at worktoday, refusing to identify the business she was calling from, but requesting I identify myself first. When I laughed, she said she would call back and hung up. 800-517-9304