Thank you, Brain Anderson told my sister-in-law he was a Bankruptcy litigation lawyer. I knew he was a fraud. They had her so scared and in tears. We need to do something about these jerks! Thank you for your advice.
Another ROBO calling scam op. And like all the others, these idiots mesh in well as @$$H0LES withall the others. They sound redicilous with their 'struggling' english samantics. It's laughable. And when I tell them I know their scammers , they still keep the $hit up. I told them "FINE-send me a SUBPOENA!" If it's real, you'll have no problem. That is exactly WHAT ALL OF YOU ASK FOR! You'll NEVER get one because IT's NOT PHUCKING REAL! They got nasty and hung up like a little foreign boy would. REPORT THEM TO THE FTC!!!
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Dealing with Debt Collectors •Debt Collection •Time-Barred Debts •Debts and Deceased Relatives ..Consumers across the country report that they're getting telephone calls from people trying to collect on loans the consumers never received or on loans they did receive but for amounts they do not owe. Others are receiving calls from people seeking to recover on loans consumers received but where the creditors never authorized the callers to collect for them. So what's the story?The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:•is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
•refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
•asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
•exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.
If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:
•Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. 5 days. This all should burn their shorts all the more!!!!!!! (-:
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.•Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.
•Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft – charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.
•Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate – but you think the collector may not be – contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.
•Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.
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Strategy #3: Turn the tables on them. If the caller is telling you that the agency is taking you to court, “ask for the specific case number and court it is allegedly filed in,” says Steve Rhode of GetOutofDebt.org. “Call the court to confirm. You won’t be able to because it’s a scam.” You’ll know this is a scam before it gets to that point, anyway, because when you are sued you must be served with a written notice of the lawsuit.
If the caller claims to be with a law enforcement agency, ask for specifics: the caller’s name and which agency he supposedly works for (for a police officer -- the specific city, county, or state, for example). Just like you have the right to ask a police officer who pulls you over in an unmarked car for identification, you have the right to verify anyone who calls you claiming to be with law enforcement.
Let the caller know you will be calling that agency directly to confirm his identity before you talk further with him. Of course you’ll come up empty handed as the FBI and police officers are not debt collectors. Be sure to tell the caller that if his story doesn’t check out you are reporting the call to that same law enforcement agency. “Tell them you are going to call the cops on them,” insists Howard.
Strategy #7: Have fun with it. These kinds of calls can be scary and stressful. Nicolette commented on our blog, “I have nightmares and dread when the phone rings. I just wish he would stop calling.” But if you’ve figured out it’s a scam then maybe you can try to make their lives miserable. One of my friends told me that when he gets harassing collection calls he just starts “messing with the caller,” asking them what they’re wearing or finding other ways to “creep them out.” A commenter on our blog who said he worked briefly for one of these firms suggests “Ask them if you are American, then tell me few lines of our national anthem.” I’ve also heard from consumers who put the collectors on hold and don’t come back, blow whistles or air horns into the phone, or play obnoxious music at full volume. (I am not suggesting these methods for avoiding legitimate collection calls, of course.)
Any low life scammer KNOWS it's expensive to retain an attorney. So they KNOW you will never get one. So they say this $hit "You or your attorney call me' OR "What's your attorneys number' thinking you will believe it's even MORE real and they scare you into sending them money...Well... I just happen to have a LAWYER in the FAMILY for FREE!!! And when I call their BLUFF they got angry and hung up. Don't let tough talk shake you down. You can't be arrested, you can't lose your drivers license, Nobody is showing up at work, nobody is showing up at your home, nobody is garnishing your wages. CARBON DIOXIDE spewing over a telephone in NOT legal. You have to receive a SUBPOENA. You get that THEN the dance begins and it's real. Till then just hang up on them.
Oh and on another note, you 'boosters, plants, shills at work... DON'T bother to write on this site telling everybody that they are NOT fake, they are real and how you had a nice experience with them and you settled for half... and don't try the old 'OH NOW I have a court date-I got served papers" None of that $HIT is going to work unless you give the docket number the subpoena number, the court house the court date and the DECISION rendered for your follow up. This has been done on other sites and my lawyer traced the IP address and found it to be the SAME PERSON AS THE SCAMMERS!
Received a message on my work number from Sarah Lee regarding an important legal matter and to call her back at 509.464.6606. I called the number back and left a message without any numbers to call. She was stating the My Cash Now was filing charges against me for a payday loan that I did not pay back. I asked for it in writing. She said she did not have to give it to me...wrong they do. I asked for the date it was done and she stated Jan 6, 2010 and into my checking account...I explained it couldn't have happened because I was not working. I was on medical leave and I didn't even live at the address or have the checking account listed. She got angry and said to look for my subpeona in the mail. I said OK.
Do not let these people scare you. they are scammers, They cant file a lawsuit in any place but the county where you live, lets say they are calling from dallas tx and you live in ny city they cant file a lawsuit againest you in dallas they have to come to the state and county you live in to file, tell them to [***] off and not to call u anymore, i had arabs from new jersey calling me with the same scam last year my local law and state attorney general went to newark and had these people arested and put there [***] in jail.