Also sending email from "Phillip Gibbs", the email address being
[email protected]. A woman called me a couple weeks ago, trying to bully me into believing I paid for an online yellow pages ad. I told her I did not order it, she insisted I did verbally. Then she started to record me, and I went off her script and said I didn't know who they were and did not request advertising and she yelled and me and started recording again. At that point I gave them my email address to send me a file that has this so called "verbal agreement", and I got a phony invoice instead. (As if that's hard for anyone that knows how to spell or hit "send" on an email to make). I told them to cease and desist or I will file a small claims case against them. That worked for two weeks. Until today, Christmas Eve, I pick up the phone from a number who has been calling for a week and not leaving messages, and again, the technique is to be obnoxiously rude to convince you they're really bill collectors. I tell this jerk that I have already reported them to the FTC and BBB and they're not even a real company and tell him to send me the audio clip then and hang up. Then I call him back and ask what company he's from and he says something like "online 411 yellow pages"...Then asks me who I am and I tell him and tell him I'm reporting him to everyone I can, and I've made it clear I'll file suit. Of course, they're not real, so there's no listing for my business on any online 411 yellow pages (I'm a hairdresser, I don't do business outside of locally, so have no need for some unknown company as a simple google search has me everywhere). I emailed them again from the fake email stating I know that their email address and phone number are listed through Quebec, and his phone is a cell phone from Las Vegas, in the McLaren Airport area. And if they were a real business, their contact info wouldn't be impossible to find such as an address or company name, but they aren't real. So I've been complaining to many sites and posting their info (for free, I'm not even going to bill him because I'm aware he didn't make a verbal agreement), and suddenly someone tells me he's called and it rang, then he called and there was a message saying the number was no longer in use (which actually changed in the middle of saying something else as if the number has just been forwarded to another number). Then there was a busy signal when I called (I didn't even know that existed anymore, and can't imagine a company that would let their phone have a busy signal, let alone the billing department). I guess these jerks are banking on the fact that if they act rude they will seem like legitimate collection agents. However cussing them off feels really good, because they are so clearly fraudulent. I hope each and every person involved goes to prison and I'll do my best to help contribute to this possibility, as well as turn the tables on them and make them wish they never started harrassing me. Anyways, the FTC said they do this recording practice such as the woman a couple of weeks ago attempted to do and take clips out, but they're not even legitimately a company, and they will not affect your credit as they threaten. (Hey it took a long time to fix that, don't you dare threaten mine) Apparently they also have worked out of Florida under another company name/service. They also have claimed to be some company that starts with EZ...I've forgotten the name. However there is plenty of info on the internet. And if they continue to harrass me, I'll take this further. If they call you, tell them you want their address, web address, phone number (see if its the same that shows up on your phone too) and if their email address doesn't look legit like @yahoo.com...well you know they're fakes. Do not ever utter the word "yes"...And follow through on reporting them to the FTC and any local law enforcement agency. (Which right now is Las Vegas and Quebec).