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Also written as (217) 834-9517, 217 834 9517, or +12178349517
User feedback strongly suggests this is a scam number. Reports indicate deceptive practices and attempted fraud. Consumers have filed 252 complaints about this number: 177 with the Federal Trade Commission, and 75 with the Federal Communications Commission. 228 were logged as robocalls. The FCC most often categorizes these as "Prerecorded Voice".
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Recent reports describe this Illinois number as a callback line for unsolicited debt-consolidation and installment-loan pitches. Callers and recorded messages claim a loan was pre-approved or is ready for processing even when the recipient says no application was filed, and some identify the operation as Bright Credit Lending. Community boards and a September 2026 Better Business Bureau Scam Tracker filing describe repeated daily calls from rotating caller IDs that all point back to this number.
Filed with the FTC's Do Not Call Registry — official government data, not user reports.
From the FCC's Consumer Complaints database — official government data, filed separately from the FTC.
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