Yes, this is a predatory business culture. You're either a friend or family member receiving calls about some one's debt. Call them once find out their excuse for calling then write their BBB and your attorney general about harassing you and family members and help protect elderly, vulnerable family members from them. You are also receiving all sorts of unknown calls that if you ask what business they're with they just hang up. They have a huge network many alliances and they will not admit to their predatory cowardly acts. They don't have a A+ BBB rating on any business practices don't be confused. http://www.bbb.org/norfolk/business-reviews/d ... olk-va-51000164 they also have PRA Location Services Las Vegas Nevada, and 800 service that they forget to notify to stop calling among others. Rules, there are no rules.

P.S. I don't owe a penny. My ex likely does...and some cards were shared.

Portfolio Recovery called me tonight. The hilarious thing is that my phone# in the U.S. forwards to me here in Ireland (via VOIP). So although I didn't this time, I've often amused myself by engaging with them, and ask them if they'll send in a few Blackhawks and do a raid á la Bin Laden. They've asked me for an address and they accepted 1600 Pensylvaina Ave, Washinton, DC as a valid address. I haven't lived in the U.S. since 2005, consequently could not owe anything since at least then. What a bunch of bandits. I'm really surprised they haven't been shut down.

I'd tell these people to kiss my a** but they are such low bottom feeding pond sucking scum that the diseases in their mouth's would give me an infection.
Never answer their calls, they do get tired of calling and randomly call every few months now.
Portfolio Recovery.........they give scum a bad name.

its a debt collector.  your mom owes money. no reason to be an "a**" to someone doing their job...just pay what is owed or ignore the call. :-D

914-595-7031  just  called ~ showed  on  caller  id  as  " Portfolio  Recovery "  ~ left  no  message.

beware!   a  call  from  this  number  is  a  debt  collection  scam ~ they  are  phishing  for  info ~

give - them - nothing.

This number is from Portfolio Recovery, a Debt Recovery Collector.  They have multiple numbers and apparently have nothing else to do but call numbers and don't say anything when you answer.  Do Not Give out any identifying personal and confidential information...  These are dumb idiots in a nutshell!

Would not say why they were calling.

Long Distance lol  Did you call them back in 1996?

As promised above, the October figures are in, and I shall share them with the world:  Portfoolio rang our phones 9 (nine) times in 2012. In 2013, Portfoolio caused our phone to ring 22 times. Is there a hidden message here? (They have been calling for more than 4 1/2 years, thousands of calls, not a single one ever has been answered, and their lawyer wrote us a letter more than 3 years ago stating they had "decided" to "cease collection efforts.", while admitting, in writing that the so-called debt could not be verified.)

Folks, the Best Congress Money Can Buy specifically enabled these vermin and others of the same ilk to harass us. They are the ones who can put a stop to it.

I received a call from this number on October 30 and there was silence and then the sound of a woman laughing. Then the disconnect comes. I am calling Verizon to have my number unpublished ~ I am SICK to DEATH of these crazies calling me. These people really need to get a life.

i told them for $
500.00 i could supply the phone # there looking for. i got no response.

Do NOT talk with these bottom-feeding extortionists. Every word you use may be used against you.
Where bullies, thieves and thugs hold sway,
do not expect that they will play,
by the same rules that you,
and other decent people do.

They called and used my maiden name so I told her no one here by that name. Not used that name for 4 years now. Get it right and maybe we can talk.

Portfoolio Recovery keeps calling me for a fingerhut bill that was awarded to my exwife in 1997 divorce, yet they still call me.
but have slowed down since i asked them a question and here is what i do to get them to stop

Caller: Hello, is XXX XXXXX there?

Me: Yes, speaking

Caller: This is XXX XXXXX (woman voice, mostly women call) with Portfoolia recovery we are here to collect a debt and any information blah blah blah

Me: Can I ask you a question?

Caller: Yes

Me: What color are your panties....?

___EITHER YOU GET ONE OF THE TWO RESPONSES____

1. Click, the sound of them hanging up

or

Caller: What??? Excuse me? what did you say?

Me: I said, What color are your panties? (Because they didnt hang up i then include another question)
are you wearing panties???

Caller: click..................

Only once did I get an answer and she said this " Light blue and I'm wet....." then the phone clicked off.

This is how i deal with collectors and they stop calling, now if you get a man that calls just start talking sports or have a conversation and dont let him but in, just keep talking stuff totally unrelated to his reason for calling , he will hang up

well, I can see by all the posts what I needed to know, god I hate these recovery a***ipes.

beware!  a  call  from  this  #  ( 914-595-7031 )  is  a

debt  collection  scam ~ they  are  phishing  for  info ~

give - them - nothing!

I did not answer, and they did not leave message. I have no unpaid debt and I am not late on any bills. I

Hoooeeee!! We are up to call #412 since the barrister Pearson stated in writing their decision to "cease collection efforts" more than four years ago. Here's some Portfoolio Recovery experts' trivia: during the month of September 2012, they rang our phone 8 times. During the month of September 2013 they rang our phone 15 times. August 2012 it was 10 times, and August of this year it was 17 times. Does this mean they are desperate, to be escalating this way? Stay tuned for October figures.

   When the upcoming revolution starts, these vermin are first on my list of scum to be eradicated! Viva la revolucion !

6782758928 called from this number

If you have an iPhone and did the update to ios 7, you can block all of the numbers these scum bags will use to get you to answer the phone.  If you do have old debt that they are coming after, check what your state's statute of limitations is on old debt.  Most average around 7 years.  If there has been no activity on the account in that amount of time, you are not required to pay the debt.  Most importantly, if they succeed in getting you to answer, do not give them any information - EVER.

ive got this number and another one never ansewed but in my state sc and most all u have to do is ansewr the phone and tell them not to call back, by law they cant, if they do its phone herasment and can be crimanaly charged that goes of any collection agency even like car loans ect. altho i wouldnt advise that or they will problably come repo your car if u dont pay anyway if u dont belive that google it

Warning!  Warning!  Warning!

Portfolio  Recovery  Associates  are  Criminal  Scammers

trying  2  collect  on  False  Debts ( debts  that  have  already
                                                                        been  paid ) .....

They  will  get  your  info  thru  the  Credit  Report  Agencies,  when

you  open  a  New  Bank  Account,  get  a  New  Credit  Card,  get

a  Loan ( of  any  kind ),  etc.  etc.  etc.

Then  PRA  will  Manufacture  FALSE  DEBTS  from  Loans  that

was  PAID  IN  FULL  years  ago .....PRA  &  their  Employees

are  CRIMINALS! .....They  are  in  the  EXTORTION  Business .....

Do  NOT .....REPEAT! .....Do  NOT  Answer  their  Calls!!!

Exactly. Why it is that they think that after thousands of calls over several years, that you'll suddenly up and pay their fake/zombie debt?

"I've called this number 9,999 times, so on this next call, they're definitely going to write me a check!"

@ cate,  lol lol lol .....Keep  spreading  the  word  about  these

Low - Down - Dirty - RATS!

#knowledgeispower

IPHONE IOS7 update allows u to block callers!! Google it and you won't be bothered anymore by portfolio

B FOR REAL! What can you do to us???


Accept the calls as a JOKE! Ask them a LOT of questions! NEVER give them your name! Tell them that other "Polio Recover" are calling! They don't know that they are just a stream of callers who are trying to get paid! Don't get angry. I ask them can they hold while I get a coffee! Be sure to tell them, "I'll be here whenever you need me!" DON"T GIVE THEM YOUR NAME! That's how they get paid!!!

Accept the calls as a JOKE! Ask them a LOT of questions! NEVER give them your name! Tell them that other "Polio Recover" are calling! They don't know that they are just a stream of callers who are trying to get paid! Don't get angry. I ask them can they hold while I get a coffee! Be sure to tell them, "I'll be here whenever you need me!" DON"T GIVE THEM YOUR NAME! That's how they get paid!!!

These bottom-feeding pond scum are so pathetic that they have made themselves irrelevant. Nobody bothers to even pick up the phone. We never have done...they've been calling here since early 2009. In September of 2010, the attorney general made them reply to my request for verification of the so-called debt. Their lawyer admitted it could not be verified. He also stated they had "decided to cease collection efforts" since I was objecting. I had not asked them to stop calling, the lawyer Pearson simply stated they had decided to stop. Here it is, three years later, and the call last Wednesday from this number was #390 since these idiots "decided to cease collection efforts." I guess they are  simply lonely little vermin, and are calling nowadays just to say "Hi".