<prompt> Human: Im sorry if this is in the wrong section.My mother keeps getting harassed by debt callers. I honestly dont think they are debt collectors in the first place. I think theyre scammers. Theyre calling her job and telling her co-workers that answer the phone lies.. Theyre saying they will throw her in jail. Ect ect ect...Thats the number theyre calling from. My mom is a gullible person, so I keep telling her theyre scammers trying to get money from you and using scare tactics.. Is there anything I can do to get these people out of her life, besides blocking all the numbers they call from?Assistant: She should definitely report them to the FTC, calling her at work is a direct violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Human: When she isnt at work and say a co-worker picks up the phone.. They are telling the co-worker everything such as personal information, telling them that they are going to come to her job and arrest her.. All that good stuff. How they got her work phone number is beyond me.. I would assume from facebook though..I did a quick google search of the phone number and didnt find much other than another person claiming they were scammers.  <response>: Thats a violation of the FDCPA. Sharing information with someone other than the debtor is a commonly-used yet illegal practice. 