Debt Collectors, or The Greatest Scam Ever

I received an automated phone call today. The caller asked me to press one to verify that my name was “xxx” or press 2 if that was not my name. I was also given a number to call. I did nothing, just sat and listened and then wrote down the number (which is 877-251-3771). When the message was over, I did a simple reverse phone lookup on the number. It seems that this number belongs to an agency called “Source Collection Agency”. I also found posts where other users had received calls from this same number. There was no information on the number, but the ads up and down the sides of the result page were related to debt collections. Continue reading