Got called tons of times by this number. 1-2 rings then a hang up. Typical fly by night ambulance chaser that uses threats and the court as weapon to extort "their" money you "owe" them. Even after everything has been taken care of and paid to the company that was owed.
If you have time to post here then please file a complaint with ACA, Association of Credit and Collection Professionals,
http://www.acainternational.org/default.aspx
every complaint filed helps to get these sleezy company with poor ethics out of business!
Seriously protect yourself, this is not a normal collection agency. I have never had any company be this aggressive and abusive. I was a bill collector for 3 years and I am aware of the protocols for dealing with clients on the phone. When this company contacted me they were giving me orders and they were really mean. I completely froze and had a lot of anxiety because of how they treated me. I am on a very limited income and the bill they had received was a medical bill from Primary Health that insuance was suppose to pay. I informed them over the phone that it needed to be resubmitted to insurance. I never heard back, instead they got a judgement against me and my 200.00 bill is now over 900.00. I learned that if you dispute a bill you must submit it in writing, simply stating it on the phone is not enough. If you want to file a complaint for how you are treated then you need to record the calls and keep time and date. This company not only got a judgement against me, but days before Christmas they are trying to take me to debtors court. I researched what this means and what they do is they get your banking info so that any money that goes into your account they take. They also sell off all your stuff in your home through an estate sale and take any vehicle. This is NOT a major bill, this is NOT some parolee trying not to pay back a victims fund, it is a simple citizen that lost a job and insurance didn't pay 200.00 to Primary Health. Oh and yes Primary Health once your bill goes to collections refuses to see you again no matter how little the bill is, this means that the only avenue you have is to use an emergency room which raises your debt and overloads the medical personnel there for real emergencies. Do what ever you can to get them off your back, not because I think they should be rewarded for bad behavior, but because the law does not protect those that are simply in hard situations. In several states people are being sent to jail for debt and there are many articles accusing bill collectors of abusing the court system, Mark L. Clark falls into this category. Honestly had they been nicer to me I would have paid them months ago, but after dealing with them on the phone they went to the bottom of my list of people to pay.
You are a pansy and a whiner. It takes several months before PH sends an account to collections. You probably had plenty of time to get your insurance situation resolved. You worked collections for 3 years & froze when asked about a debt you had been billed for for 3+ months? No wonder you are now jobless. BTW... you can go see a real general practitioner or go to a Saltzer Medical Group location or a St. Als Urgent Care. There is no longer any kind of debtor's prison, hasn't been for decades. You are ridiculous.
They sent me a letter, something about a debtor's examination hearing "at which time you will be required to provide your financial and banking records, employment history, and tax returns for the past 3 years to determine why you have refused to satisfy the Judgment." is what the letter says.
I was looking through the paper in the legal section a while back, that Mark L. Clark is involved in a bunch of cases, suing a bunch of people. He reminds me of a vulture. A vulture with wolves (judges and courthouse people) as friends.
I 've received several threatening phone calls from someone at this company by the name of Adam Edwards.I have been out of work for a year and have nothing to give them.My recommendation is if these people call you don't answer,and don't call them back unless it's to tell them to eat [***].