I received a phone call from " coast professional '' at my place of employment. The person on the phone asked if I was ( my name ). After I said " yes, '' she then asked me to give her either my phone number, address, or last XXXX digits of my social. I became very uncomfortable & asked her what this call was about. She refused to tell me until I gave her XXXX of the XXXX bits of information. At that point, I looked up the company online & saw that she was calling on behalf of a debt collection agency. So, I asked her if her call was regarding a debt collection. She said she could not tell me that information, but offered to let me speak with a supervisor. The supervisor then asked me to provide XXXX of the XXXX pieces of information. He also refused to tell me if the call was in regard to a debt collection. Although I was very nervous to give him any information, I did. The supervisor then told me I was n't the person they were looking for. Anyway, my belief is that this was a fishing expedition. As soon as I said I was the name they were looking for, the company was required, under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, to identify themselves as debt collectors. They did not.