417-800-2330

Just got a call from this number, 3/6/13, 11:04am, hung up before I could answer.

Just received call on cell but they hung up before I could get to it.

Received a call from this number...  Caller ID said "Nevada, MO"...  I didn't answer...  No message

Got two hang ups from them.  ID said "RX Assistance."

Just got a call from this number.  Caller ID said RX Assistance.  Automated message said press 1 to lower your prescription costs.  I press 1 and operator said "are you calling to lower your prescription costs".  I said "No, I pressed 1 to have my number removed from your system".  So she hung up on me.  Definitely not a legitimate company.

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. Digital hardware call blockers, the popular "DIGITONE Call Blocker 10" for example, could help or do harm depending on how high-tech and aggressive the rogue callers are against your phone number. The more technology you use against them, the more likely they will use technology more aggressively against you to the point where your phone could ring more frequently from rogue calls and in middle of the night hours. So staying lower-tech could actually help to keep your phone a bit more under their unrelenting predatory radar. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit, albeit spoofed calls are backed by governments and corporations, so there is nothing the little guy can do against such illegitimate activities but to block and ignore them. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. “John Doe” not “Jonathon Q. Doe” or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited ... llection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

Recorded message - "prescription assistance".

Have received several calls from this number. No message ever left. I assume it's a telemarketer.

Same thing here,  RX assistant on the ID.......sounded like a British accent.......never...and I mean never answer to these calls............

Received hangup call from RX assistance

This is the biggest rip off on the planet!. They claim to be able to lower your credit card payments. What they really want is your money. They will call your credit card with you on the phone, and when the credit card company asks for your security answer, the spam company stores this information in their system. The spam company will ask the credit card company to lower your interest rate (something that you can do for free) and when the credit card company says no, that is the end of it. The spam company claims to be able to work with the higher ups in the credit card company, but it is NOT true.

This company uses a lot of different phone numbers to get around the blocked ones. I am currently in the process of turning them in to the phone company and anyone else who will listen.

Save your money and DON'T do it!
Call your credit card company yourself, explain your situation, and hope for the best.

Left a chopped off message about getting money from some stimulus.

Same as everyone else. Keeping records.

Did not pick up the call. Phone ID said Prescription Assistance.  Did not answer. It came from Missouri. They did not leave message

simply report them and pray government will do something about this mess. the only option is to simply hit clear. you are on your own government help is so far beyond worthless. so you want more government?

I decided to change my mind. Even though I tried and tried to return their calls....no one answered? I need RX assistance....I was told they would send you everything you need for free and they would use their own credit cards guaranteed by their employees social security numbers. These guys are for real and are top shelf operators. How could not believe there sincerity?

Be warned this number is so hot it goes busy on every attempt to reach them. I can't imagine the ka-chings these guys are bringing in. If you actually get through give them all your information credit cards, billing addresses, social security numbers and your main phone number! You can expect a flurry of activity coming your way! Just wait till all those goodies hit your front door, and your underwater mortgage is paid off. Don't act surprised if you receive a surprise gift in your driveway that goes from 0-200 in three seconds.....and it is weight scale not a porsche.

Got a fraudulent call today (Fri., May 3, 2013, 9:52 a.m. PST) from this number (Caller ID: "RX ASSISTANCE"). It was a recording stating that it's my "last chance" to solve some credit-card issue. Pure bull defecation that I didn't listen to for more than two seconds. If I could visit the person who makes these sorts of spam-like calls, I'd want to pound them in the face as hard as I could. I hope these [***] eventually all get arrested and hung by their private parts to rot in jail for the rest of their pathetic lives. And if you're one of the frauds who makes this sort of call, you better not get caught because you have an awful lot of angry people who'd love nothing more than to kick your sorry ass.

Caller ID: "Nevada, MO"
5/3/13 10:08
Robo calls are required by law to have an opt out option. The only choice given was to press 1 to talk to someone. The "representative" did not identify herself or her "employer". I informed her that what she was doing is illegal.  She said, "No it isn't." and hung up on me.  So obviously a scam.  I will use an air horn on the next such caller.

If you have received this phone call, please report it to the National Do-Not-Call Registry. I have provided a link below. If enough people complain about a particular business, The National Do-Not-Call Registry office does take action.

https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx