Our digital cable service displays incoming calls on the television, and this number appeared several times in just the last hour.  I looked up the number, arrived on this page, and then decided to call them back.  I spoke to a "Chayla" and I followed the advice above. It was GREAT!  I loved being in control, and I could tell that Chayla was getting flustered.  ("May I have your name?"  she asked.  I responded, "I'm calling to get information, not give it."  Chayla's response: "Well, I like to know who I'm talking to."  Me: " 'Ma'am' will suffice.")  

She finally gave me the name of "the person who holds a debt with the company we represent," and it was no name I had ever heard.  (I did make her spell it out for me.)  It could have been one of my husband's roommates FROM 15 YEARS AGO, but he's not home at the moment!  :-D

Anyway, Chayla assured me that our number would be removed from the list. I thanked her and politely ended the conversation.

Long as I have a mute button I don't care how many times or how many different numbers they use.

Any time you get a number and called ID shows a city and state it is Portfolio Recover. This time is showed up as unknown name, earlier as Belle Grade FL, Las Vegas NV, Boise ID. They have been trying to collect on a $300 Mervyns bill that I paid off BEFORE the company closed its doors. Told them that and to piss up a rope if they think i am going to pay them again. I bet they have paid their people over a thousand dollars in salary trying to get me to pay. Freaking loosers

They keep calling 4 times a day and they don't say who they are, so i stopped answering and they just keep calling and calling. Anyway to block them from a landline?

Sounds great, the problem is who has the time to be wasting endless time on the phone? Regardless, they don't pay for calls, it's a business they pay a fix fee regardless of time.