8019022429

We keep getting calls from this number if  I pickup their no one their or it is some one that is hard to under stand.  then they say we are looking for so and so and is not my name  so good by.

This Portfolio Recovery Associates is a malignant scamming company. They hire drones of collectors to harass people, even at random, and they hope to find old senile prospects who are confused and give in to their harassment and pay them money, perhaps a lot of money and the drone collectors receive a commission.

Really - a very long prison sentence needs to be given to these criminal scammers...including the employees who are complicit in these crimes.

FIRST - everyone receiving calls from this bunch of blood suckers should know it is _not_ Discover Card, it is a collection agency named Portfolio Recovery Assoc out of Norfolk, VA (with 'spoof' location in Kearns Utah). While they have obviously been put up to this by Discover Card, and represent themselves _as_  'Discover Card', they are NOT Discover Card (or any other lender/company they claim to represent). Equal complaints should be made against both this organization AND to any company they claim to represent (such as Discover Card) for turning you over to this sort of abusive organization and providing them with your phone numbers given when you set up the account.

Here is what the CEO of this bunch said July 30, 2009, about all of YOU they are robo-dialing:

“This is Steven Fredrickson...some of these comments towards me are childish and shameful, and it doesn't surprise me that those who are deadbeats, would make childish, immature remarks like this. As to our collection procedures...we carefully follow the collection laws of our state and anyone claiming otherwise is a bald faced liar - it is YOU people who should be in prison for being a thief...not me!” (scroll down comments: https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-801-902-2429/2 )

Apparently this company is being sued by the Attorney General of Missouri for fraudulent debt collection practices related to their abusive debt collection procedures.

Secondly – the Kearnes, UT people are using several numbers (such as 801-902-2429; 801-902-2976) both of which geo-locate to LAT 40.67 LONG -112.01 so pull those coordinates up Google Earth and it looks like someone in a residential neighborhood is running these calls out of their home with a Robo-Dialer. The Norfolk, VA coordinates for the home office are Latitude 36.841488°, N 36 ° 50' 29.4" 36 ° 50.4893', Longitude -76.213085 °, W 76 ° 12' 47.1" -76 ° 12.7851'  

Now you know where to drop that 'blue-water ice' when you fly over at 30,000 ft ;)

Portfolio Recovery Associates’ website is: http://www.portfoliorecovery.com

Now you can start burning up THEIR phone lines and servers with bunches of daily calls and emails !!!

Also – FILE A COMPLAINT PEOPLE !!

US Justice Department
Attn: Steven Curran, Deputy Chief
Criminal Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite
PHB Division
Washington, DC 20530

And to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx

The little CSer Fredrickson is whoaring his own company and dumping the stock - he knows it will all be over soon.


3-Aug-09  12,000 PRAA Option Exercise at $13 per share.
(Cost of $156,000)
3-Aug-09  1,000 PRAA Disposition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
3-Aug-09  2,204 PRAA Sale at $46.61 - $46.75 per share.
(Proceeds of about $103,000)
3-Aug-09  9,796 PRAA Sale at $46.44 - $46.92 per share.
(Proceeds of about $457,000)
10-Mar-09  6,000 PRAA Option Exercise at $13 per share.
(Cost of $78,000)
27-Feb-09  *44,783 PRAA Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
27-Feb-09  *44,783 PRAA Disposition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
14-Nov-08  13,179 PRAA Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
27-Aug-08  600 PRAA Disposition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
28-Feb-08  *51,847 PRAA Acquisition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
28-Feb-08  51,847 PRAA Disposition (Non Open Market) at $0 per share.
26-Feb-08  10,000 PRAA Option Exercise at $13 per share.
(Cost of $130,000)
   * Indicates that some (or all) shares are held indirectly (e.g. in a trust, by a spouse, etc.)

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. (PRAA) reached a new high for the first time since September 2008 on Friday, a day after the collection agency reported strong fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates.

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Steven D. Fredrickson attributed the positive results to $75.1 million in portfolio acquisitions, improvements in collector productivity and the strengthening of the companys fee businesses.
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Congratulations Fredrickson on your master fraud activities - you are a clever mother F*er ain't you, you scamming POS.

Don't worry about it - you're gonna windup in jail you arch criminal thief - only a matter of when.

PRAA is a publicly held and they just successfully raised ton of $ with another public offering because they are so good at collecting old (beyond the statue of limitations) debt. They seem to be the darling of Wall St. which would fit with their scams - all crooks. Not an honest man or woman in the place. They are being sued by a number of states and individuals. But since Wall St. thinks they are a cash cow they can do any scammy, illegal collection practices they want. Disgusting bunch of subhumans with no ethics, morals or manners.

Best thing to do if harassed is to contact your state attorney general and file a complaint. Some states have set up special sites and hot lines to report such criminal behavior. Do not speak with them or respond to any correspondence. If they send you a 1099C call the IRS and inform them as this is not a legal document.

Hey Fredrickson - why don't you just admit your company is a total scam operation, then at least we'd have a little bit of respect for you...as it stands now, you are nothing but a thief and a liar.

This "Utah" company, who is yet to speak to either my husband or myself because we ignore calls from places we do not know anyone from (Utah).  I am now reading they are a SUCCESSFUL scamming company, with numerous (as in thousands) of lawsuits against them.   FILE A REPORT on these scums of the earth!

File yours (you don't have to write something out like I did just fill out the form):

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
THESE CALLS ARE NOT COMING FROM DISCOVER CARD, BUT ARE SPOOF CALLS FROM
PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, 120 CORPORATE BLVD, NORFOLK VA. 23502.