I would like to encourage everyone to report United Bureau, aka United Collection Bureau, Inc to your local government representative regarding calls made to your home regarding collections for another person whom may have lived with you at one time or used your number as an emergency contact.
My 71 year old mother and my deceased father in law (they asked for him on the voice mail. My mother in law is still living.) received calls from UCB regarding a person whom they are trying to collect from regarding a collection account UCB bought from a cable tv company.
When I called for my mother, the man who answered the phone told me it was legal for them to call all relatives, friends and neighbors if a person has them listed. He proceeded to give me a verbal tongue lashing when I told him it is not legal to harass people in the hopes of getting a dollar from anyone who listens and believes the garbage he spews.
First, I want to know how these people obtain their information, and secondly, how can it be legal to call anybody and everybody trying to collect a debt? I don't think it is.
He also told me to "tell XXX (the relative) that they were going to collect the debt." I hung up on him in the middle of his tirade.
I have since reported this to the phone company and to my senator in the state of South Carolina.
I encourage everyone to do this. I have since found out that there are litigations pending against this company.
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