A rude man phoned my husband...didn't even use my married name. Asked if I would be home tomorrow and was told no. Was very rude to my husband and never stated anything beyond delivering legal documents. I tried to call back and no answer. I looked up the number and found this site explaining the scam.
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I just got this call as well stating that they wanted to deliver legal documents would I be home tomorrow. I told him not sure he said ok I will document.
A rude man phoned my husband...didn't even use my married name. Asked if I would be home tomorrow and was told no. Was very rude to my husband and never stated anything beyond delivering legal documents. I tried to call back and no answer. I looked up the number and found this site explaining the scam.
Criminals masquerading as debt collectors attempt to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged (they use the bad check or hot check claim a lot) and go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished without actually being sued or going to court, be sued, and a variety of other variations on this, all for an alleged or nonexistent debt. One of the tricks they use is to call your family, friends, neighbors and/or places of employment (past or present or both) to create panic and embarrassment so that their intended victim calls them and they can scare that person into paying their extortion money. They will use the words “Mediator”, “Arbitrator”, or “Law Office” to make you believe that they are something other than a debt collector want-a-be and that they don’t have to follow Federal and State collection laws. They do have to follow those laws, but they won’t. They mention that they have received a Fax document, to create the sense of urgency. They also tell you that if you fail to call them back you are "waiving your right to council", which is pretty much nothing but hogwash. They also use the “process server” ruse who calls and claims he is going to serve you, but then says you could avoid it by calling another number where they will ask for money to “make it go away” (this is actually the same place, they work in teams, one pretending to be the server, and the other usually pretends to be a lawyer). Process servers do not ever call ahead so that you can dodge them. Process servers get paid to serve papers, nothing else.
Read up on your rights here and also make a complaint at this government site: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices: http://800notes.com/faq/attorney-general
I got the same call today from this 323-275-4783 number. They told me they had some legal documents to serve me with. Then gave me a number to a "Stuart bell associates" mediator to call with a reference number for my case. When I called they had the same story about a loan I took out in 2010 from a personal cash advance company. They had a lot of my personal information addresses, phone numbers, bank that I used at the time. I kept telling them that I have no recollection of ever taking out a cash advance loan but they insisted and used my old information as proof. Scary that people will go to these lengths to take your information