This is Charles Demes. My services are not at all related to debt collection; nor is this a scam. By law, a debt collection agency must disclose up-front that they are attempting to collect a debt. Our company is NOT a debt collection agency. There are two other companies (Capital Recovery Corporation and Capital Recovery Collection Solutions) that are debt collection agencies, but we are not affiliated with these companies. We are a legitimate asset recovery company and have received an “A” rating (the highest awarded) from the Chicago Better Business Bureau (http://www.bbb.org/chicago/business-reviews/f ... ago-il-86001836).
With respect to scams, scams are based on money up-front. My proposal is based on a contingency which means our fee is extracted from the recovered funds. We are only paid if we are successful in recovering the funds for the beneficiary.
My company locates unclaimed assets, e.g., inheritances. These are moneys that were never recovered by an individual because they either did not know the money existed or because they passed away (and I am therefore trying to contact next of kin). If you doubt my claims, you can get references from some of the thousands of clients for whom I have helped recover money over the 20 years I have been in the business. My company is also a member of the Chicago Better Business Bureau--a watchdog organization that screens companies for exactly the types of scams you are worried about.
If I, or anyone from my company, have ever contacted you it is because we have found a legitimate asset that you (or your family) have legal claim to. We charge a fee that covers finding the asset, finding the individuals who can legally claim the asset (which can take months of work), and legally processing the claim in this highly specialized field to win these cases so the money goes to our clients and not the many creditors that can also lay claim to these funds. Each case can take months or years of work, but in the end, you and your family get a check for the agreed upon amount. If we cannot secure the money for whatever reason, we don't get paid. In other words, if you don't get paid, we don't get paid. Please contact us if you have any further questions about our services, or visit our website www.capitalrecoveryllc.com
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I have tried contacting you on several occasions in reference to my fathers inheritance. You have not responded, if you are saying that you are not a scam artist then why are you not returning people phone calls including my lawyers who have tried to contact you.
I have gotten phone call after phone call with an undecipherable message. My ex-husband and two grown children have been contacted over the past year ... I've lived in the same house for over 20 years. Why has it been so hard to find me?
No one close to me has passed on since 1991. I would have no clue what "asset" might be mine.
I cannot comment about Capital Recovery specifically, you should contact the Chicago area BBB for that. But the business he claims to be in is a legitimate one. They locate unclaimed funds, contact people who may have claims on them, and process the paperwork to claim the funds. These funds may be an inheritance, refunds from pretty much any source, litigation, etc. that were not claimed for whatever reason. One of the major sources of a large amount is a pension fund, which you may not have been aware of if the intended recipient died before retiring.
These companies tend to overcharge, but it is a real service.
I had a charles call a phone number that we have not had since 1994 in a different city and the person who now has the number found me and relayed the info to me. The number was different it was 312-440-9884 which is in Chicago just like the Charles Demes. The name on the caller ID was Kristin Reyna I believe. I have been sent a letter by Charles Demes and so has my sister been sent one looking for me. I wanna know why, If this is real, they are trying to find me not my family or something. I'm thinking Debt collector wait maybe i should say, someone trying to find me and my info so they can pass it on to a different company, lol. Or it has to be a scam. I am going to look into it and will post a follow up.