My office has been contacted repeatedly by LMS Mediation. It appears that someone having a debt gave them my office number. Today, rather than letting them leave another voicemail, I answered the call. I politely informed the caller, who said his name was XXXX, that he had the wrong number and that I had never met or heard of the person he was trying to contact. XXXX insisted he had used my phone number to contact his debtor on at least XXXX occasions in as many weeks. Once again I politely told him he had bad information. He then told me I did n't need to be an " XXXX '' and ended the call with a hearty " XXXX ''. 

I called the number left on the previous voice mails and spoke to a receptionist who told me my number would not be called again. The name of the company is LMS Mediation, the number is XXXX, and it is supposedly based in Michigan and owned by an attorney named XXXX XXXX. 

Like many, I XXXX for a company that has a large part of its business in XXXX. We have a large staff responsible for collecting this money and they do it by treating our customers with the respect and professionalism they deserve. I can tell you that companies like LMS Mediation make collecting debts the proper way much more difficult and just helps to solidify the smarmy, shady reputation the receivables industry has today.