NCO Portfolio Management The company repeatedly cotacted me by phone at work demanding payment of alleged debt. Edina Minnesota

Certified with receipt and do not sign the letter with your signature (just type yoru signature) for a Cease Communication order. This should stop the harrassment, while waiting on the AG. Violations are punishable if they refuse to comply.

Yep, as you read the other posts here talking to these folks results in mindless arguments with nco's debt collectors.

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/complaints.aspx?id=451

For one, file a complaint online with the attorney generals office in the state nco is based in, Pennsylvania. See link above for their online complaint form and you will hear back from the AG's office. + they're quite familiar with nco already having fined them in years past.

How do they get so many debts mixed up? I mean its one thing if you've had a debt in the past but if this one's not even yours. And there are many other posts here just like yours - debts that are being linked to the wrong person.

And since the debt doesn't belong to you their only hope for collecting is to scare the money out of you - by turning you upside down and shaking the money out of you, dollar by dollar.

Plus they totally ignore legal collection procedures & get away with it.

Others here will suggest you send them a letter demanding that they stop calling you. For me, I let them ramble on - to my answering machine until they stopped & they eventually passed my acct onto a law firm hunt & henriques who put their phone machine to work trying to convince me to call them back. Never did.