I received a call from this company about a payday loan from a woman named Monica Johnson who was very rude. She said I owed for 3 checks and wanted to know what I wanted to do about them. I told her that I would pay them and then she wanted a credit card number. I explained to her that I don't have a credit card and she started getting very rude again and talking over me while I was trying to explain to her I needed her to send me proof in the mail to pay it and I would send a money order. She just hung up on me. I called back and explained to her that I was not in good health and since I had a few heart attacks last year that I have a memory problem but I would be glad to pay if it is something that I owe and she told me she doesn't have to prove anything or give any receipt and she will only take payment by credit card but since I didn't have one that she was just going to have me but in jail for 3 counts of fraud. Then she said "I'm just going to go sign warrants to have you put in jail since you don't want to work anything out." I tried to tell her for like the 5th time that I did want to work something out and make payments but she just hung up on me. A couple of weeks later a woman named Nicole Wallace called me from the same number so I tried to return her call but the woman named Monica Johnson answered and refused to transfer me and would not let me speak to anyone else and just said that there are 3 warrants for my arrest and that they still didn't want to work anything out that they just wanted me to go to jail. I called the sheriffs office and they told me that there was 1 warrant for me to go to court and that I could come by and pick it up this week because I had already missed the court date and have it rescheduled for another time.
I received a phone call at 9:37am (CT), in which a voice mail was left on my parents’ home answering machine from a woman named Karen who claimed to be from Barnes-Smith & Associates. The caller ID on my parents’ home phone showed the number to be 314.839.3979. However, this woman named Karen asked me to call her back at 314.839.0027. I returned their call to the 0027 number from my cell phone at 9:45am (CT). A woman, who would not give her name, said I could not speak with Karen and then hung up on me. Then I started doing research due to the stranger nature of that phone call.
A search for Barnes-Smith & Associates resulted in leading me to a web site called barnessmithassociates.com which describes a cost management company and not any type of collection company. The web site says the best way to reach them is by calling 575.993.3988. The information for this number kicks to a Verizon Wireless mobile phone number in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The web site also shows a company address of 2744 Custer Way, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88011. This address kicks to Eric P. Barnes-Smith in New Mexico. After doing a search of the phone number I was asked to call back (314.839.0027) kicks back to a place called Smith-Klien & Association at 3820 Parker Road, Florissant, Missouri, 63033. After researching that address I get a ping to two people named Davidra & Reginald Smith. I took the liberty of trying to call 314.839.3979 and talked with a woman, obviously the same one earlier, and she said, “why do you keep calling here?! you keep asking for Karen! we want to know if you have a warrant. It does not matter whether you talk to Karen or not! Are you some type of stalker?! Don’t call here anymore!” I then tried calling the 575.993.3988 number and an older man answered the phone and I asked if he was Barnes-Smith & Associates and he said he was and I asked what he does investments. I asked if he does anything with warrants and he said no; just capital investments.
These are fraudulent calls - they are scumbags who bought your information from any loan you may now have or had in the past - usually pay day loans. I paid mine off years ago and they are now calling me again. just laugh at them and say, please do come and serve me, and I will have the local sheriff's meet you here. That is good for a few days anyway. they harrass me at work, at home, on my cell and most recently they called my 72 year old father and harrassed him!!! I have a loan out through a car company and my dad was a personal reference, I think the car loan company sold my information. They are trying to say I owe a payday loan from over 10 years ago! Don't be a victim!
She called my job today stated that warrant has been issued. Stating that i committed fraud and that their coming to my job to arrest me. I paid some of the money not all....I owe 253.00 and i told her that i couldnt be arrested for that...she's rude and disrespectful you cant talk and that shes the only there...ARE THE REALLY A LAW FIRM??????????