Portfolio Recovery Associates was named one of the top ten most aggressive call spammers of 2011 according to a December 2011 article by White Pages.   Portfolio Recovery Associates is a junk debt buyer who calls, mails, and sues consumers across the country usually for charged-off or old credit card debts.  According to the article, the numbers most frequently associated with this company are (757) 275-8578, (757) 506-0177 and (731) 256-7106. Nothing is more ann

Caller ID and Spoofing | FCC.gov. Finally, we have some small teeth in a law to discourage clear, unambiguous fraud.  This type of activity is not just immoral, but clearly in violation of federal (and perhaps many states' law).  As always, any consumer's best protection against fraudulent activity is the consumer's own vigilance and skepticism, not the government. However, it is good when those who collect taxes seek to protect the availability of those sources of fu