Call 877-652-1645 (toll free). I got a live person immediately, told him they had the wrong person/number and asked him to remove. He looked up my number, confirmed the name, and said the number would be removed. Allow 24 hours for the calls to stop. He was polite?no problems.

I would suggest an answering machine but what troubles me about that is I get calls for someone I dont know from some collection outfit and with the answering machine they say her name etc and then say she must call back as soon as possible.  I think that would be an invasion of someones privacy to do a call like that and leave info like that on someones machine.

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Monday, November 23, 2009 11:13 am Am still getting calls from this number. The company must be desperate because today some female -I think- left this message, "Hello, I'm new and my name is what?". They either leave LOUD music on the answering machine or unprofessional messages. Talk about class! Still don't know who they are. I have never given my telephone number, which I pay for, to them, yet they have the right to call and harass. I have reported this number 877-652-1645 to the DO-NOT-CALL listing which I am on. If these people want to contact me, then use the address and mail the information to me direct, since they apparently have all my information at their fingertips yet I do not know who their are! AMAZING!!!

Call comes in and it is not a person.  Says that it is not a telmarket call, but from what the messages says it seems to be one.

Phone rings and the recording states, "This is not a telemarketing call.  This is a call from the law offices of Bennett, Delodi and Loyce.  This is regarding an important business matter.  Please call 877-652-1645 and refer to this reference number.  We have legal aid available to assist you.  Our hours are from 8am to 10pm EST Mon-Fri and 10am to 4pm Saturday, EST.  If this really an important matter, the SOB's can mail me the information.  Kiss my butt!

November 12, 2009 this number 877-652-1645 has started calling at 8:00 am for the past few weeks. Plays VERY LOUD MUSIC over the answering machine and never leaves a message. Even when you say "Hello" there is no one there. Whom ever they are, they are extremely bright individuals who know telephone etiquette and practice it!!!! They must be very proud to work for such a company that is afraid to leave a message or show their company name on the caller I.D.!!!!

Keep getting calls from this law firm stating I owe money.  Unfortunately for them I owe no one and the scare tactic is not going to work.  I just delete the call, they can leave a message everyday for all I care.  It is their wasted time not mine.

877-652-1645 calls all the time it is a recording telling u to hold on. and im sick of it

Just as mentioned in the prior reports, I got a computer generated name asking from my young son.  Same nonsense - if you are NOT him, hang up, etc.  Then they said they were Bennett Law.  Gave a callback # and case #.   My son has NO debts; I have NO debts....this is SCARY!

I got a voicemail message saying they were calling KK.  If you are not KK, please hang up or disconnect.  By continuing to listen, you acknoledge that you are KK.  They then proceed to leave a message about trying to collect a debt.  Can they do that?  I thought they couldn't leave messages.

I received this call every 2 days or so and it is annoying me.

They have been calling me on and off for over a year to collect on debts for someone with a different name.  The calls have increased now to three or four times a week.  I don't have any outstanding debts, they are calling someone who is not me (I have left messages about this), and offer no information.  It seems to me more than just irritating collection agency tactics...seems more like fraud, some kind of racket.  Who can I report this to?

Is this harassment related to Circuit City?  I am having the EXACT same problem you describe!  They are trying to collect money for merchandise that was never delivered from Circuit City.  Since the merchandise was not delivered, the transaction was cancelled but yet they still say we owe money through a check guarantee company called Certegy.

Have gotten many calls from this number, on a cell phone which previusly belonged to someone else. They are calling for someone named "Kinesha", whom is NOT me.

I got the cell phone via Safelink Wireless/ Trackphone..Which is a US government service that gives people on any sort of government benefits (veterans, foodstamp recipients, etc.) a free cell phone and 60+ minites of prepaid time per month. The voicemail for my phone number was also clogged with calls from this number. I googled it and discovered this site...

Called a long time ago over and over and over for many days.  Finally got someone to talk and not hang up and asked them to remove our number.  They got very rude and said that my husband owed a debt to a pet smart about 7 states away!  I asked them to send me copies of documentation and they said I had to request it in writing.  So, I send a certified letter asking for documentation.  NOTHING.  Phone calls stopped, then just now- probably 5 months later- I get another call!  It's just a recording though saying that Bennett Law needs to talk to my husband regarding a record they have.  Anyway- I called to locate the pet smart store # they told me and apparently pet smart has no record of that store # or of my husband in their system.  Go figure.  Oh look- my phone is ringing again and it's them again!!!  What jerks.

They have called several times on my cell phone for my sister La Tasha Taylor and they won't say who they are and they are rude. I am sick and tired of them calling me on my phone and I am ready to file harrassment charges.

I've been getting these calls too.  It's a computer recording trying to pronounce my name.  It's calling my work.  I have no debts to be collected on.  I even checked my credit report today.  So I am ignoring the calls.  There's been no "5-day letter" or anything that you hear they supposedly send you, so it's got to be junk.  Make it stop!!!

I believe this is a debt collector from the information that I've gathered from the internet.  I wouldn't know it from any information they've left.  They leave sketchy messages with little information...I don't call them back because of the feedback I've gotten from the internet.  They haven't sent me anything via the mail.  They call relentlessly.

Female Caller left me a voice message claiming it was a law firm. They asked for me to call back due to time sensativity infomation. When I did it took a couple of seconds to ring and then the call was lost. I did not bother calling back.

There are laws in place to supposedly protect the consumer, but they are outdated and the collection agencies know this is use it to their advantage to relentlessly harass innocent consumers.

When you are part of a multi-billion dollar entity (as many of these CA's are), the penalties for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act are nothing more than a slap on the hand. And, they sleep with like-minded individuals in our Federal Government who are aware of the rampant abuses in the debt collection industry and do NOTHING.

Here is an excerpt from The Boston Globe's 2006 series "Debtor's Hell". Read it and follow the link provided to the entire series. Very disturbing.

Regulators, policy makers seldom intervene

This story was reported by Spotlight team members Michael Rezendes, Beth Healy, Francie Latour, Heather Allen, and editor Walter V. Robinson. It was written by Robinson and Healy.

Last of four parts | August 2, 2006
The debt business, as Donald Friedman, the chief operating officer of debt-buyer Liberty Point Corp., told hundreds of his assembled peers at their March 2005 gathering, is ''one of the sexiest, one of the most financially lucrative businesses you can get into.''

Boastful? Yes. Overstated? Hardly.

That year, businesses that specialize in debt for collection would purchase $66 billion in delinquent bank credit card accounts alone, paying just pennies on the dollar for the right to press consumers to pay up. That $66 billion represented a golden opportunity for them, and sudden vulnerability for an estimated 8 million card holders - all of them earmarked for repeated phone calls, dunning letters, lawsuits, wage garnishment, property seizure, and sometimes even arrest.

They generally owe the money, but seldom anticipate the consequences. A Spotlight Team investigation, which concludes today, found a system where debt collectors have a lopsided advantage; where debtors frequently face high-handed treatment; and where excessive fees can swiftly turn a small delinquency into a life-upending financial crisis.

Yet, in spite of all this, there is an eerie silence among regulators, policy makers, and legislators. Those who could intervene to right the balance between collectors and consumers are either unaware of the debt collection free-for-all, and the tens of millions of consumers caught up in it. Or they are simply unwilling to act.
In Massachusetts, for example, almost 800 complaints about debt collectors flow each year into the office of Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, whose state website declares that he is ''on the front line working for consumers.'' Yet since Reilly took office in 1999, he has initiated legal action against just one collection agency, a Danvers company that paid a $100,000 fine two years ago.

When Reilly's office announced that settlement with Schreiber & Associates, it called it just the start. ''This investigation is part of a larger initiative aimed at protecting consumers from unfair debt collecting practices.''

No legal actions have been announced since then, though a spokesman for Reilly said last night that five investigations of debt collectors are underway.

Similarly passive is the Massachusetts Division of Banks, which also has regulatory authority over collectors. The banking regulators do little more than warehouse required annual filings by 410 debt collection companies - haphazardly, as the Globe discovered when it sought access to the division's records.

Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission, which is charged with enforcing a federal law that regulates the behavior of debt collectors, has done little in the face of an explosion of consumer outrage. From 1998 to 2005, the number of consumer complaints about debt collectors soared tenfold, from 6,678 to 66,627. Yet, in the last six years, the FTC has taken enforcement action against just 10 companies.

This year, an estimated 20 million Americans are three months or more past due on credit card accounts alone, according to data given to the Globe by Experian, one of three national credit reporting agencies. Yet it appears no one in government is keeping track of this alarming trend, not even the Federal Reserve Board, which in June assured Congress that bank credit card delinquency rates are ''not high by historical standards.'' But omitted from that calculation are the tens of billions of dollars that are ''written off'' the books by the credit card giants and sold to debt buyers for collection.

Court administrators who are most likely to be aware of the tidal wave of lawsuits against debtors have not, for the most part, raised concerns about credit caseloads that have turned many courtrooms into de facto subsidiaries of the collection business.

Meanwhile, Congress and many state legislatures have acquiesced to the politically powerful banking industry, which issues much of the credit that goes sour. The laws regulating debt collection predate, by a generation, the current boom for debt collectors. Their ranks have doubled in the last decade.

Frustrated regulators say the result is that many of the roughhouse tactics employed by collectors are legal.

Jesse Caplan, the chief of Reilly's Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division, said the vast bulk of complaints to his office about debt collectors are ''not actionable,'' but amount to a misunderstanding of what consumer laws protect against. Caplan said his office informs consumers of their rights, and sometimes mediates disputes between consumers and debt collectors.

That would come as a surprise to Roberta Andresen of Raynham.

She felt she had nowhere to turn but the attorney general after a debt collector sued her in 2003 for a credit card debt she says she had long since settled. Reilly's office, she said, seemed uninterested in her complaint:

''They said they couldn't do anything for me, and told me to post a complaint on the Internet,'' Andresen said.

http://www.boston.com/news/specials/debt/

Isn't there some burden on the collectors to verify that their information is correct before they can call at all hours of the day and night?
Most of these posts appear to be from people who are not the true target of the collection agent.....

Intimidation, Intimidation,,,,,,,,,These guys keep calling my home for a "Friedmans Jewelery" debt my then minor daughter has with them.  She wants to do the right thing and pay, but when asked for supporting doccumentation of the invoice they refuse and use intimidation tacticts to try to get her to pay.  She has also asked for a "payment plan" which they will have no part of.  Very intimidating and unprofessional!

They have called  and called. I called them back and talked to some jerk who said the call was for Linsey Newman I told him i was not her and this was not the first time i had called and explained that to them. he was very rude and said he had not called before, I told him his company had and i was not linsey and i would appreciate not getting any more calls. he said he would take my number out and hung up.

they call and call,   once some jerk said hello and hung up

I received these calls a few months ago, called to notify them the person they were looking for was no longer at this number, stopped getting calls, then started getting calls again this week.  I called to have them stopped again and he said it was a new case.  I told him that they no longer lived at this address or phone number and that this was a military base and they moved off.  He told me I needed to be nicer next time.  I should have told him there better not be a next time, but I just hung up.  They need to start checking their numbers against the phone book.  We've been at this address and phone number for 9 months now and our number is not unlisted.

They call several times a day.  It is for a bill I do not owe, but they do not listen.  They will not send any documentation to back up their claims and when I send them copies of the contract and verification that shows this was handled as per the contract, they ignore it.  Even when I answer their call in the am, they will call back at least 2 more times in the day while I am at work.  They are calling my cell phone.  This is harrassment.  The Justice Department of the Federal Government says they are only a collection agency.  They are not a real law firm.  This is just how they try to scare you into paying so they will go away.  If that does not work, they harrass you to death.  There are laws, we need to go after these people together and put them out of existence.

This is so annoying! Im on the do not call list too!
I going to file a complaint about these a***oles!

It is very annoying when they call and on top of it the person they are looking for is not even at this number

Got a new cell number. This company just keeps calling and hangs up when you pick it up. Called, and got voice mail greeting.