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collection calls on cellular phone

Date: Thu, 01/25/2007 - 15:30

Submitted by anonymous
on Thu, 01/25/2007 - 15:30

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Allied has been calling my cell phone but never leaves messages. Yesterday, I answered the cell phone and a machine told me to hold... which I did for 5 minutes. I do not want to burn up my talk time holding for a company I don't owe money to. How can I ask them to stop w/o giving them any personal information?


Do like I am about to do and send them a cease and desist letter that informs them that it is against the law for them to contact you. Especially wasting valuable daytime minutes for a company you don't owe any money to anyway.

Don't you just love it when they call your cell phone and waste minutes and your time?


lrhall41

Submitted by Alexandra on Thu, 01/25/2007 - 19:12

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Alexandra, I'm almost positive that that's prohibited by the FDCPA20. I seem to recall a clause in there saying that CAs are not permitted to contact a debtor in any manner that causes the debtor to incur costs for accepting the communication. It was originally intended to apply to collect calls from CAs, but I'm sure it would apply to cell phones today as well. I just can't find the clause in the fdcpa offhand.


lrhall41

Submitted by Debt Padawan on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 09:50

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