They also called me about a gym membership. First of all they answered the phone by saying, "hello?" When I said that I was returning a call she transfered me to another person. When I told that person that I was not verifing any info (and they had alot of my info already) until I knew what it was they were trying to collect, the second person transfered me to his "supervisor" I could still hear the guy #2 talking to guy #3 about me!
From what I could understand from guy #3 He just kept telling me that I owed money, that this has not been reported to collections yet but if I didnt pay him right now it would go straight to collections. When I told him that I was not paying him until I cleared this up with the gym, he got angry and told me if I called the gym they would just forward me back to him. I just hung up.
Called the gym and they have no record of ever sending anything to a collections agency. You would think AnyTime Fitness would go after these people to stop ruining their companies name!
Caller: First Credit Services
Call Type: Debt Collector
I just received a call from someone that sounded like they were using VOIP and with a thick South Asian accent. I knew immediately this was something fishy because they asked to speak with my son (who is a minor). I asked what this was in regards to and was told this was a personal matter. They asked if I would take down their number--no need because it showed up on caller ID: (347) 348-0611 and it says its a NY number on caller ID. I told the male caller it would not be possible to talk with my son because he was a minor. The caller said, "just one moment" and then hung up. But they called back and left a VM. We could hear in the message left the sounds of a call center in the background but no one said anything directly to us on the message. The weird part was when I checked a few minutes later, the VM had disappeared and I had not deleted it. That's when I typed this phone # into a Google Search and discovered it was part of a scam. They just called back while I was typing this out. They rattled off all of my son's personal information and stated that this was in regards to a debt from a Gold's Membership (I read on another blog post related to this number & scam) that many of the people being harassed by this same number/scam were told the same thing. We do have a gym membership with Gold's but no debt, and we are still talking about a child, so I'm curious if someone from Gold's Gym has leaked & is profiting from giving out personal information or if they have not kept secure records and this is how a scam operation has acquired so many people's personal information. We told them to stop harassing us and that we are reporting them to the FTC and authorities.
I do not know about the Android, but if you have an iPhone, just download or make a “silence” ringtone. Make a special contact –I name it “Warning Idiot”; assign any annoyer call to that contact, and –of course—the “silence” ringtone to it. By the way, I have assigned more than 70 numbers to the contact “Warning Idiot”. I hope that you have this remedy useful to deal with these “professional” scammers.
The claimed to be Credit First - said that I owed a debt from 2008 to Gold's Gym and if I paid them now, they would not send this to the credit bureau. I was a member of Gold's from 2002-2005, and never since. They say that they have been trying to call me repeatedly and trying to track me down for the past five years. Interesting, given that I have had the same number that entire time. I told them I had no intent of paying them anything, and she said they would do a further "investigation" and contact me again. VERY difficult to understand, seems to be an Indian accent, doesn't like you to talk over them (hung up on me when I tried their tactics and interrupted everytime they spoke) and calls repeatedly during the regular business day.