Consumer complaint received 2015-03-26 00:00:00
Product: Credit card — 
Issue: Privacy — 
Company: Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
State: GA

Complaint narrative:
XXXX, which controls The XXXX XXXX Credit Cards had extended my wife a line of XXXX dollars originally. We had good standing with this card for a long period of time despite the extremely assanine 25 % interest rate. It got to a point where certain interest points of XXXX and XXXX month special financing were dropping off and it was expanding beyond our credit limit and I was paying around XXXX dollars every three months to bring it back down below the minimum balance. After this occurred, XXXX lowered the balance and worked with us to catch it up. There was a disagreement on payment and the account went into collections after they tacked on XXXX dollars more and put us over the limit. Now it is with a collections company called Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC. 

They have been rude, and they have bombarded my phone XXXX times a day with varying phone numbers. They have initially failed to identify themselves until they try to bait me into identifying myself as " XXXX Husband '' to which they ask for no further identification questions. They do not verify that I am indeed who I say I am but then go into how she owes money and disclose personal information. 

This is a violation of Fair Collections, This is a violation of XXXX privacy as it 's advertising that she owes a debt - anyone can pick up my phone and say they are - there are laws to prevent this and I 've been rudely told there are not. 

I am not an un-educated fool and know otherwise. A supervisor attempted to get me to identify myself further only when I started mentioning the laws in our country against un-fair practices to which she said they 'd be calling back later. That is classified as harassment and a threat. 

They have also used auto-dialers on my cellphone a XXXX times to get me to return the phone call to speak to someone. 

Please see their previous and current lawsuits -The XXXX also says that : A pending class-action lawsuit filed in XXXX District Court in California in XX/XX/XXXX claims that PRA broke the law by using an autodialer to call consumers on their cellphones without permission. 
PRA lost a class-action lawsuit filed in XXXX XXXX XXXX in New York, and in XX/XX/XXXX was ordered to pay {$350000.00} to about XXXX consumers who claimed that the company included drafts of legal documents suggesting it would sue them when it mailed them collection notices. 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has received XXXX complaints about Portfolio Recovery Associates between XX/XX/XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX*. Complaints about attempts to collect outstanding credit card bills, auto loans and other delinquent accounts include : Threatening a lawsuit or other legal actionImproper contact ( such as calling late at night or at work, frequent / repeated calls, or contact after the consumer had asked the company not to call ) Disclosing the existence of the debt to third partiesContinuing to attempt to collect debt that was not owed or that had been paid. 

This has also happened.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation