571-214-5430

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies 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.

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. 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 never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit. 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, and other 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 day 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.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://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://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

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

USPS:
http://www.usps.com/send/waystosendmail/extra ... mailservice.htm
http://www.usps.com/send/waystosendmail/extra ... eiptservice.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:

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/

I receive a call from this number 571-214-5430 yesterday night.  When I answered a man voice asking "Do I have a small dog?" I quickly answered yes then it turn out to be a recording stating this call is billed to .....numbers that I do not remember.  I hung up and call it be and the answering machine at that number was full.

Answered a call from this number and also received the recording asking " Do you own a small dog?"  I answered yes, at which time, the recording said something to the effect that this survey was sponsored by Survey 2010, with some additional registration numbers and hung up.

recorded - do you own a small dog? I hung up.

I have received two calls from someone who asked if I had a dog. What frosts me is that the PHONE COMPANY will not allow calls BACK TO this number..........SIGN ME UP FOR A PHONE LIKE THESE PEOPLE HAVE !!!

Just called my house
same drill
if you do not respond, the call simply neds

I just received a call from this number but my answering machine picked it up. I
believed they have called me 4-5 times and looking for another person who has my last
name but not my first. I have told them not to call me. That this person is not a relative
and to please quit calling me. But to no avail.

This caller called and asked whether we have a pet and hung up immediately after the answer

7275649725   called left no message.....  caller ID said  " SAINT PETERS FL"....      hey just a note to all you robo callers out there.... if you are not important enough to leave a message... I AM NOT wasting my time calling you back OR EVEN talking to you next time.... My firm REQUIRES us to Identify ourselves, by firm name, our own REAL name, our city and state... then to briefly say why we called.... hmmmmm  seems like a good idea for a new law.. since the jerks in washington make so many stupid laws, how about one for real people who dont have a congressional staff to answer calls

Got a call from 5712145430. Did not answer - of course. Caller id read "Wireless caller". Jerks. . .

Got a call at 8:32EST "Do you have a small dog?" You can imagine the vulgar thoughts that came into my head. Call disconnected on its own after my attempt at humor. Survey 2010 or something like that. What is this about? Is it phishing?

Automated caller said it was a survey and asked if I had a small dog. Then hung up.  Survey 2010 or something like that.

got call from a recording asking if i had a small dog. return call to number says mailbox is full

Says its a wireless caller...no other clues.

Received the call.  Did not answer and no message left.

5712145430-this number rang my house on different days with the "do you own a small dog?" Today it was a call from Americans in Contact.(AICPAC). It was a recording of "Ronald Regan's oldest son" asking leading questions from a very conservative republican bias. Americansincontact.org.

I had a call on my answering machine at 9:18a.m. central time from 571-214-5430 on September 3, 2010 today.  It sounded like a female voice at first saying "okay", and then a male voice (possible computer generated) asked if I owned a small dog.

Received two of these calls in the last few days. They attempt to talk while the answering machine is on  "do you have a small dog?" . Nothing left on the answering machine. Listed as from VA.

Caller asked me if I had a dog, when I said no he hung up

got a call from this number