So I posted an ad on craigslist trying to sell my car, I got a text message the following day from a number that wanted to buy my car I tried calling and this number calls me saying his name is Steve and then proceeded to text me to use paypal to pay me for the car, got an email from possibly paypal saying 21 grand was sent to my paypal account and all I had to do was send 500 dollars for an agent to pick up the car..I knew something was up so I called paypal and they said basically it's a fraud forwarded them all the emails and "Steve" from this number called me back "What happened" I told him I just had gotten off the phone with paypal and they had clarified that all those emails and everything going on is a scam. Then he hung up on me.
I just got a call from this number last night. First time. It was not a person or even really a message. It was a recorded woman's voice repeating this mans first name and last name initial followed by a dot com slash this or that in verbal form. Wierd! I tried to call the number back and it rang and rang until finally I got a mailbox full automated voice...click!? At the same time I was on my computer which is connected with my "smart" not so smart phone. I was on the child support "secured website" and wowsa! All of a sudden there appeared accounts in there didn't even exist! Not for me anyways. My ex-husband owes me a lot of money in back child support and it was telling me that I owed his current estranged wife 13,000.00! It was all back to normal in about 10 minutes, but now I'm worried that my personal information is being leached out!
These people are the rudest, meanest people on the face of the earth. I understand about owing money for a past debt, and I can only do so much. My husband is laid off, and these people have NO HEART. Would not take any payment arrangements, the woman yelled at me. Calmly I said, when you learn how to treat people and can work with them on payments if life is rough on them right now, then maybe someone might talk to you, and then I hung up. Halstead COllection agengy you suck!! OH and they lie and route calls through a local number. [***]!
These shady people made the mistake of calling a wrong number. The wrong number just happened to be a reputable, international collection company. The female on the line was rude from the beginning. She argued with me about my identity and wouldn\'t give her identity. She thought I was lying about the company that she was calling. I even checked my company directory to make sure the debtor she was looking for didn't work for us. I told her several times that the call was being recorded. (my company records every call inbound and outbound to avoid lawsuits.) Finally, she hung up the phone on me. That being said, this is just a low budget collection agency that doesn\'t follow laws set by the FDCPA to protect the consumer. I would avoid them at all cost. And if they harass you, hire a lawyer. It seems like an easy win.
I *67 the number act like i wanted to pay my bill and got all the info on the person they was trying to collect from then i had him remove my # then i got a call from another # asking for a different person. these collectors are boring.i think i will put their #s on a calling list let them get some calls haha.