Harassing Phone calls from (215) 320-0424

This company keeps calling my cell phone asking for someone that no longer owns this number (817) 228-1069. I have told them repeatedly to stop calling because no one is here by the name they are asking for. I have instructed them to remove the number from their data base, but the calls continue. I told a man last night he had called the wrong number and he got very rude with me with I told him he had the wrong number. I tried to explain it to him but he continued to be rude, so I hung up on him. Now at 8:20am, 10-9-07 someone called again and my girlfriend answered it telling them they had the wrong number. How many times does it take this company to understand they have the wrong number????

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Academy Services is a debt collection agency.

They bombarded my cell phone with recorded messages. I made the mistake of calling them and asked them to take my phone number out. It didn't work because they don't care. My lawyer friend suggests that I send them a letter stating that I am not the person they are looking for, that I do not owe any delinquent debts and that I want them to stop calling me. In accordance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), after I make these statements, they have to stop. If you want to do the same, you should also copy your letter to the Pennsylvania State Attoreny General, the attorney general of your state, and the Federal Trade Commission, who is the enforcer of the FDCPA.

Here are the addresses that you will need:

Academy Services

ATTN: Nancy Fortino

10965 Decatur Rd.

Philadelphia PA 19154

Office of Attorney General

Bureau of Consumer Protection

14th Floor, Strawberry Square

Harrisburg, PA 17120

Federal Trade Commission

Consumer Response Center

600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20580

(If you live outside of Pennsylvania, google your state attorney general's website to get the mailing address.)

By the way, Nancy Fortino is likely a fictious name, but this is the person that the "receptionist" at Academy Services said to address my complaints to. My lawyer friend says that these people don't use their real names, which suggests to me that they are doing something illegal. The attorney generals of the respective states can determine what state laws they have broken.