Should I call the police on this debt collection agency?

I am getting calls from these guys from NCO. They are looking for my daughter that has not lived her for 8 years for a Discover bill. They all with the caller ID blocked so you don’t know who they are but I have 21 messages saved on my machine from them over the course of 2-3 weeks and in some of them they are addressing me and my wife saying our daughter is in big legal trouble. They also say on the machine this message is for daughter, me and my wife, this is so an so from midland we are completing an asset, employment and bank account search to get a court order for daughters name It is imperative to call me back the end of today. I have spoke to several people in that company including there leadership team say they have a right to call me and get my daughters information and they will keep doing so until they do, they also say my daughter will be sued for 3times the Original balance they add on court fees, lost business fees, attny fees ect. I would never give them my daughters information, plus my daughter says it is so old she dose not even remember it pulled her credit up and nothing of Discover she has a score of 770.
Now to last Friday i got a call from someone looking for some equipment I sell that’s what I do for a living, I gave me cell phone number to call back when I go to my warehouse that after noon. Guess that was them tring to be one of my customers now I am getting called from them on my cell phone, these guys have called now well over 400 times between and will call into 1030 at night. I have warned them I will call the police and I get laughed at!

Answer by jwishz
Not the police but report them to the Federal Trade Commission
There are penalties for harrassment

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Cell phone connections

Let’s say, for example, someone ships a package containing a GPS-enabled cell phone or a GPS tracker in order to be able to track the location of the package at all times. Is there a device like a “tracker locator” that would allow me to find the tracker or phone by its transmissions? I’m in a warehouse with the package and my locator, and I follow the beeps to the package? Does a tracker only transmit when you call its phone number (the type that use a SIM card)?
I like what you’re saying, A, but HOW do I look for the signal?

Answer by Desert Dust
Probably not because a package riding in a truck or sitting in a warehouse may very well not get a GPS signal and likewise would not be able transmit for the same reason.

Answer by TV guy
There are many assumptions here.

a) The phone is ON
b) The phone can get GPS data or at least be able to connect to a cell tower

Most tracking methods “contact” the phone and only then the phone transmits its location. So unless you know the phone number, it may be very hard to find it in the warehouse.

Answer by lare
i have never seen a GPS receiver that can work inside either a van or a warehouse. the antenna has to see satellites in space and not be obstructed. Package tracking, like FedEx or UPS is done by scanning a barcode on the package as it enters the warehouse or van. The scanner location is known and it simply identifies the package as it rolls by. The delivery truck often has a GPS on it that provides data to the package scanner. if you need a radio direction finder, then you need something like Lojack which does not need GPS to work.

Answer by A
Contrary to what others have said GPS trackers can work inside containers and packages. The accuracy sucks but normally when tracking a shipment like that an error of up to a mile isn’t much of an issue, you want to know which side of the country it’s on not which side of the room.

GPS systems don’t transmit anything so you’re not going to pick up any GPS transmissions from the tracker.
Most trackers use cell phones for the data link but since they have to run off a battery that will be switched off most of the time. They generally have a simple motion sensor so that the GPS and cell phone are both turned off when sitting still. When in motion they will typically transmit data every hour or so, when stationary it’s more like every day.

So if the package is in a warehouse you need to look for a cell phone signal that is on for about 30 seconds once a day and then distinguish that from the cell phone in someones pocket.

Answer by Barry D
Most of these people do not know what they are talking about. GPS trackers in fact can be detected. They must send a signal to be able to be tracked. Go to Be Your Own Detective’s Spy Equipment Page – (my first source) It will show you where to look.

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