From the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Affairs Web siteThe Collection Agencies Act prohibits collection agencies from doing certain things.The Ontario Ministry of Government Services consulted the collection industry to develop a standard to be followed by all collectors. Having a standard also allows the public to have a better understanding of what collection agencies can and can't do.The regulations forbid collection agencies from:contacting you until six days have passed from sending you written notice of the following: ? the name of the creditor ? the balance owing ? the name of the agency and its authority to demand paymentcontinuing to contact you if you did not receive the notice unless a second copy of the written notice is sent to an address provided by you, and then contact may only be made six days after sending notice;contacting you if you send a registered letter to the agency saying that you dispute the debt and suggest the matter be taken to court;contacting you if you or your lawyer notify the agency by registered mail to communicate only with your lawyer, and you provide the lawyer's name, address and telephone number;contacting you on Sunday, except between the hours of 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., and on a holiday;contacting you other than by ordinary mail more than three times in a seven-day period without your consent, once the agency has actually spoken with you;using threatening, profane, intimidating or coercive language, or using undue, excessive or unreasonable pressure;continuing to contact you if you have told them that you are not the person they are looking for unless they take reasonable precautions to ensure you are that person;giving false or misleading information to any person;recommending to a creditor that a legal action be commenced against you without first sending you notice;contacting your employer except on one occasion to obtain your employment information, unless your employer has guaranteed the debt, the call is in respect of a court order or wage assignment or if you have provided written authorization to contact your employer;contacting your spouse, a member of your family or household, or a relative, neighbour or acquaintance except to obtain your address and telephone number unless the person contacted has guaranteed the debt or you have given permission for the person to be contacted.

Anyone in authority. Please help us stop this number leaving annoying automated messages every single day to many different innocent people.

To represent themselves as a Law Office is a significant breach of, guess what...The Law. So, the Law Society of Ontario should be looking at this and should be subjecting the caller(s) to the usual tests before:1. Asking the phone companies to close their accounts (which I can only hope are in the private name(s) of the individual(s) involved.2. Obtain an order preventing them from carrying out this kind of activity or any phone or internet-related, non-opt-in, attempt to infringe on the privacy of Canadian citizens.3.Cause them to repay any and all communications or other charges incurred by victims of their calling campaign, including regular cell phone charges.4. Should a practicing lawyer have lent his or her name and professional designation to the effort (for example, a collection agency), determine whether the effort is, in any fashion, in breach of Canada's privacy laws.  This would include both the collection and dissemination of information gathered via this or other campaigns and acquired databases.5. If found to be allowable under the law, require this agency to identify itself and provide out-out options and confirmation of same on both its call facility and its website.

You will find a lot of info about these  fraudsters at this link.



http://www.canadian-money-advisor.ca/press-release.html

I get a call from this number 1-3 times a week, it says "press one for English" in some middle eastern accent and then asks me to leave a MSG

got message from a law firm,Natalie left message in my phone with the case number. Another scam