can a debt collector use your outgoing phone calls to collect a debt?

Question

I dialed a call to a friend's house and instead of connecting, I got a message that "part of ths call may be used to collect a debt" (it sounded like collect a DAT, actually - which threw me) and that this call may be monitored etc.... I hung up because it threw me. I live in Illinois. Is this some new debt collection tactic and is it legal?

Answer 1

You probably picked up the phone just as the call from the debt collector came in, and dialed the number for your friends, missing the first part of the call from the debt collector.