Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

I feel compelled to write again about this problem. I should have asked more directly in the beginning. The quick background is this; A collection agency has been calling my Mom's house for a couple of years now asking for my brother, who doesn't live there and hasn't for many years. He went bankrupt a few years back but we don't think that has any relevance necessarily if they are calling when they don't have any right to call.

The question is - Do they have a right to call even though they know no one lives there with that name. That is exactly what we say and have said from the start. They might deny it but they know either directly or from the background when they get the case. It's been going on for so long that I'm sure it's been handed off to multiple companies who would have to know.

And do they have a right to use a recorded message, does that get them around that federal law? They have been using and leaving a message for probably a year and they try to be intimidating, saying if anyone continues to listen to the whole message they are acknowledging they are my brother even though it could go directly onto an answering machine.

We'd really like to put an end to this.

Thank you.

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