You need to send them a certified, return receipt debt validation, cease and desist calling, or 'not me' letter. You also need to report them to the proper agencies to which I have provided links to. Then you need to go out and get a consumer lawyer to sue them on a contingency basis (no money out of your pocket) and let them pay you for the harassment. If everyone did these three things, these crooks would be bankrupt and we would all be the richer for it.MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT AKA ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP AKA ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC.Looks like the CFPB has slapped them big time: https://800notes.com/forum/ta-ceba95f52112a47/cfpb-settles-casesPosted in: https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-822-9054https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-283-1316/59#p837778307746240527https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-411-5551/32https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-265-8825/47https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-808-0414https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-783-4936#p875170819127893235https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-789-8625https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-891-8849https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-844-236-2750https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-434-3695https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-488-1524https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-580-4780/23https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-411-6748/3https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-844-532-2891https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-282-2644/2https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-580-4780/36#p988915945458165737https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-311-2118/2https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-390-6124https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-626-5052#p1020757967577737255I always have to wonder why an allegedly “legitimate” company needs so many different numbers to call out from.Per TamianthMCM contact page with a location in California:https://www.midlandcreditonline.com/contact/The also go by the name Encore Capital Group: http://www.encorecapital.com/contact-usBBB gives Asset Acceptance an accredited A= even though they have 395 complaints. Looks like they will fit in perfectly with the Encore Criminal Enterprise: http://www.bbb.org/detroit/business-reviews/c ... rren-mi-3004304BBB Page is being updated for both Midland and Encore (for several months now at this time): http://www.bbb.org/sdoc/business-reviews/fina ... diego-ca-101104However this was previously on their page-note the government action against them:BBB Accredited Business since 5/1/2000 (1227 complaints and a government action and they are accredited?)Midland Credit Management IncPhone: (800) 825-8131Fax: (877) 414-09618875 Aero Dr #200, San Diego, CA 92123http://www.mcmcg.comView Additional Web AddressesAdditional Web Addresseshttp://www.midlandcreditonline.comBBB® Accredited Business SealBBB® B+ RatingComplaint Type Total Closed ComplaintsAdvertising/Sales Issues 5Billing/Collection Issues 1105Delivery Issues 1Guarantee/Warranty Issues 3Problems with Product/Service 113Total Closed Complaints 1227Government ActionsSwanson V Midland FundingDate of Action: 12/12/2012On December 12, 2012, Midland Funding, LLC settled a lawsuit filed by Lori Swanson, Minnesota's Attorney General, against the company last year for filing unreliable “robo-signed” affidavits in collections lawsuits and sometimes targeting the wrong people for payment of old bills that it purchased from credit card companies. The lawsuit alleged that Midland filed thousands of collections lawsuits against individuals in Minnesota courts, often supported by unreliable “robo-signed” affidavits generated at Midland’s St. Cloud, Minnesota offices. Several Midland employees admitted in sworn testimony to signing up to 400 affidavits per day, either without reading them, without personal knowledge of their contents, and/or without verifying the accuracy of the information contained in them.The Consent Judgment requires Midland to: provide individuals with validation of the debt; verify the identity and address of an individual claimed to owe money at the outset, before any collection effort is made, investigate the matter and, if it cannot substantiate the debt, close the account; take steps to correct any adverse credit reporting, and not later resell the debt; not file affidavits w/ the court unless the person has: a) read and understood them, b) confirmed the authenticity of any documents filed w/ the affidavit, c) only based the affidavit on the signer’s personal knowledge, and d) signed the affidavit in the presence of a notary who acknowledges the affiant’s signature in accordance with law; implement standards to ensure it does not sue people on debt that is beyond the applicable statute of limitations; implement procedures to ensure it does not sue people on debt that it does not own; may not pursue a default judgment without giving the person written notice that their response does not constitute a legal answer and waiting 30 days so the person can seek legal counsel or otherwise respond to the lawsuit; include added specificity about the facts supporting its claims in its lawsuits so that individuals can meaningfully respond to the suits against them; at least 10 days before it pursues a default judgment against an individual, send a copy of the judgment request to the individual.Under the Consent Judgment, Midland will also resolve outstanding and future consumer complaints made to the Attorney General’s Office and pay $500,000 to the State of Minnesota.Other complaint Sites:http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/midland-credit-managementhttp://collectionagencydebt.blogspot.ca/2011/ ... management.htmlThey are a Kansas Corporation. Information from the Kansas Dept. of State:Current Entity Name Business Entity ID NumberMIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC. 0048421Previous Names:MERCHANTS FINANCE CORPORATION, INC.Current Mailing Address: 3111 Camino Del Rio North Suite 1300, SAN DIEGO, CA 92108Business Entity Type: KANSAS FOR PROFIT CORPORATIONDate of Formation in Kansas: 09/09/1953State of Organization: KSCurrent Status: ACTIVE AND IN GOOD STANDINGResident Agent and Registered OfficeResident Agent: CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANYRegistered Office: 2900 SW WANAMAKER DRIVE SUITE 204, TOPEKA, KS 66614Bizapedia has this on Encore which is a Delaware corporations:http://www.bizapedia.com/nc/ENCORE-CAPITAL-GROUP-INC.htmlAnd this on the address these criminals are located at. Seems they have a lot of different names:http://www.bizapedia.com/addresses/8875-AERO- ... O-CA-92123.htmlThis is a letter telling them that they are obligated to follow the FDCPA:UNITED STATES OF AMERICAFEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONWASHINGTON, D.C. 20580Division of Credit PracticesBureau of Consumer Protection~Clarke W. BrinckerhoffAttorneyDecember 22, 1993Ms. Kimberlee ArbuckleMIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT500 West First StreetPost Office Box #576Hutchinson, Kansas 67504Dear Ms. Arbuckle:This responds to your letter dated December 2, 1993, inquiring whether Midland Credit Management, Inc. ('MCM') is a debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ('FDCPA' or 'Act'). You report that MCM 'purchases portfolios of delinquent accounts receivable for the purpose of profitable recovery, resale and cure. These accounts are owned solely by MCM . . .'Section 803(6) of the FDCPA defines the term 'debt collector' as 'any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.' In our view, a party that purchases delinquent accounts from the party to which the debts were originally owed and attempts to collect them from the consumer debtors fits clearly within that definition. The party is attempting to collect debts that were 'owed or due another' and the fact that title to the accounts is passed to the collector in no way changes that fact.In the leading case on point, involving a company whose business included the purchase of large volumes of checks that had been dishonored and subsequent collection of the checks from their makers (in the same manner as MCM buys defaulted accounts and thereafter attempts to collect from the account debtors), the court wrote persuasively that the purchaser is covered by the FDCPA. It gave short shrift to the fact that the party had actually purchased the checks in question:By use of the language 'owed or due another' Congress was attempting to exclude those entities that extend credit from the effects of the Act. Congress intended to protect borrowers from 'third persons who regularly collect debts for others.' (Italics by court; citation omitted). (The purchaser) is a third party collecting a debt originally owed to another. . . . It cannot escape the spirit of the Act by the technicality of purchasing the debt upon default so that title technically rests in itself.Holmes v. Telecredit Service Corp., 736 F. Supp. 1289, 1293 (D. Del. 1990)The only theory for exclusion of a party such as MCM from the 'debt collector' definition (and thereby from coverage under the FDCPA) is that it is a 'creditor.'(1) Section 803(4) defines 'creditor' as 'any person who offers or extends credit creating a debt or to whom a debt is owed, but such term does not include any person to the extent that he receives an assignment or trans-fer of a debt in default solely for the purpose of facilitating collection of such debt for another.' Since the accounts that MCM buys are delinquent when purchased and are being transferred for the purpose of collection, we believe that MCM is within the class that the 'creditor' definition expressly 'does not include.'(2) The words 'for another' at the end of the clause excepting assignees from the definition of creditor in no way changes this result:(T)he excluding factors in the exception are that the debts are the result of an assignment or transfer and that the debts were already in default at the time of assignment or transfer. With the phrase 'for another' at the end of the exception, Congress merely intended that the debts should have originally belonged to another and that the creditor was therefore in effect a third-party or independent creditor. (Italics by court)Kimber v. Federal Financial Corp., 668 F. Supp. 1480, 1485 (M.D.Ala. 1987). Accord, Holmes, supra, at 1293.In sum, it is our view that a party that obtains consumer obligations in default for the purpose of collection is a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA, even if that party actually purchases the accounts from the original creditor.The views set forth in this informal staff opinion letter are not binding on the Commission.Sincerely yours,Clarke W. Brinckerhoff________________________________________1. Section 803(6)(A) only specifically exempts creditors' officers and employees. However, it 'seems clear from the legislative history of the Act that Congress intended that this exclusion cover creditors themselves as well as their employees.' Holmes v. Telecredit Service Corp., 736 F. Supp. 1289, 1291n.3 (D.Del. 1990), citing Kimber v. Federal Financial Corp., 668 F. Supp. 1480, 1484 (M.D.Ala. 1987).2. See the comment on this subsection in our Staff Commentary on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. 53 Fed. Reg. 50097, 50101 (Dec. 13, 1988.)So remember, when dealing with these scumbags remember that you have rights:Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt. It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes. The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days of receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send and also make a complaint at this government site: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.List of State AG’s offices: http://consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php