425-740-5400

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Same old story.  These rogue "toll free" / "private name" / "CCS" / ad nauseam callers are telephone terrorists, stalkers, harrassers, criminals.  Are some of them actually bill collectors or insurance agents?  More likely they are Big Brother "psy-ops" trainees, would be my guess.  Because who else would commit such unconscionable, unscrupulous and criminal acts en masse?  Ordinary bill collectors are not such nice people either, but usually they are working on commission for companies that are actually owed money by the debtor they are calling, threatening, and harrassing at all hours of the day.

So why would any ordinary bill collectors or insurance agents chronically make malicious prank calls on such an apparently organized and well-finaced basis, tag-teaming, ping-ponging, from state to state?

They started calling us around February of this year, originating from Florida and Texas, allegedly, falsely, looking for some non-existent "nicholas thomas," and posing as bill collectors.  After several weeks of multiple harrassing calls per day from various out-of-state numbers, we got on the internet and reported them on several different websites, including this one.  Then we called our phone company and had the "distinctive ring" and other features added to our phone service as a discount-package deal.

The rogue calls in February stopped after about a month, possibly because we stopped answering "toll free" calls altogether.  Hard to tell?  But the calls started again last week, this time from different states, starting with
Washington State.  My best advice to anyone getting harrassed by these rogue calls is to turn all your telephone ringers off except for the main telephone phone that you most frequently use.  And never under any circumstances answer a "toll free" / "private name" or any other phone call like that, which by default makes a distinctive ring on our phone, which is set to ring at it's lowest volume.  If they call back more than once a day, turn off the ringer on your main phone and allow legitimate callers to leave messages on your voicemail, until the rogue calls stop coming in.  Thus far, none of the rogue callers have left voicemail, I'm guessing because they know that that could be used as evidence against them in a lawsuit.  Because you can save messages in voicemail that reside on your phone company's servers, proving who called, when they called, and what they said.

Our selective call blocking service only blocks up to 15 numbers at a time, and these rogue callers appear to have literally hundreds, or even thousands, of phone numbers for every area code in the US.  So if you block one number they be sure to call you back from another number, and another, and another, until you've hit the 15 selective block limit.

We can only hope that the afterlife holds something very nasty for these rogue pranksters.  Or maybe their bad karma will catch up with them sooner than that?

And by all means, if you have the time, please report the rogue callers on every website that allows such reporting.  Some people advice reporting them through the FCC, State boards of collection agencies, writing letters to the rogue caller's company, and so forth.  But that sounds like it could be more trouble than it's worth.  Completely ignoring them makes much more sense to me,
although I have been using our selective call blocking service to block area codes and prefixes of these rogue callers.  I've had to block five of them in the last month.  We'll see if they expand their attacks, or give it up.

bill collector.

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wanting to know why they call me every day, even when I tell them they got the wrong number

I too get call from this number every day.
I had told these folk many times that they have a wrong number.
Is there a way we can have law suite on them?

bill collector after us, like all the rest - HEY GUYS, 2010 BANKRUPTCY FILING SO STOP CALLING

same here since our economy went so terrible and put so many of us out of work either for a short time like me or longer like so many others. Seems the only ones who made out with all this is the collection agencies. Well i wont pay any of them and if and when i am able i will pay the original creditors.I say let them sue i cant believe a judge would take all our money for our mortgages to pay a credit card bill. that would be insane there are enough foreclosures already with out adding more. so i will continue to pay my mortgage and utilities and food before i hand it all over to one of these collection agencies. If this one is in the state of Washington why would they bother with me im clear across the country.

These people call my house everyday. I never answer these calls anyhow, but now they have scored my cell number and are calling that phone directly after my house phone.The strange part is the house phone isn't even in my name.... Who the heck are these people and what do they want? Someone please find out. What kind of place has a number show on caller I'd and privatize their name??

These people call my house everyday. I never answer these calls anyhow, but now they have scored my cell number and are calling that phone directly after my house phone.The strange part is the house phone isn't even in my name.... Who the heck are these people and what do they want? Someone please find out. What kind of place has a number show on caller I'd and privatize their name??

My son answered the phone and the caller asked for me by name. He asked who was calling and she gave him the name "Melody Stevens" and the number is 425-740-5400. Thanks to this website, I know this is a bill collector and has been harrasing us for a long time. Hey Melody, I too am going bankrupt in 2010, so stop calling and pretending you know me.

calling my cell phone

There calling me now we screen all calls before we answer them. They never leave a message on the answeing machine. So I guess there a fraud or some other type of criminal element.

Call, never leave a message. Today called and left a text saying "PLEASE CALL". I don't know who they are, I'm not going to answer a text or call of a number I don't know.

Called my cell phone. Didn't recognize # so didn't answer. No message left. I'm not in collections so Idk why they called.

Called my cell phone. Didn't recognize # so didn't answer. No message left. I'm not in collections so Idk why they called.

century credit collecting for advanta

They call and hang up. No messages left just hang up.

Called leaving no message, again. they keep tag teaming from state to state. now from Washington..never leaves a message.I'm guessing a collection agency, with the ecconomy so bad.

The phone number: 425-740-5400 is from Sentry Credit, Inc of Everett, Washington.

The collector that called me was John Anderson (probably a fictitious name). They are colectors for various firms including Advanta Bank. They may also be affiliated with phone number: 800-280-3800.

Their address is: 2809 Grand Ave, Everett, WA  98201. Their business phone is:
800-608-2581.  Good luck!

getting calls often, no message, no voicemails... I don't answer b/c only answer numbers I know.  If they can't leave a message, it's not important enough.  I looked up number by reverse number look up and says it is Sentry Credit in Everett, WA.