Same situation here. This so called Maria Gomez has made several threatening phone calls directly to our office admin. Gomez claims our office admin person made a commitment with Telstar back in 2012. Complete fabrication. For whatever they do, Telstar's services are completely out of our market and there is no way in hell we would have agreed to anything on the phone. Nothing but fraud.
Ms. Gomez: Did exactly the same thing with me. She is claiming I owe money to Telstar and she is trying to collect bills. By the way she does not provide a mailing address. I sent them the following letter. I am producing it here so anyone can use this without spending legal $.
"I am sending this letter to you in response to a notice dated October 14, 2015 I received from you via Fax. This notice is addressed to Indevia Accounting Inc. Attn: Devin (sic) Purkayastha.
Be advised, this is not a refusal to pay, but a notice sent pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 USC 1692g Sec. 809 (b) that your claim is disputed and validation is requested.
This is NOT a request for "verification" or proof of my mailing address, but a request for VALIDATION made pursuant to the above named Title and Section. I respectfully request that your office provide me with competent evidence that I have any legal obligation to pay you.
Please provide me with the following:
• What the money you say I owe is for;
• Explain and show me how you calculated what you say I owe;
• Provide me with copies of any papers that show I agreed to pay what you say I owe;
• Provide a verification or copy of any judgment if applicable;
• Identify the original creditor;
• Prove the Statute of Limitations has not expired on this account;
• Show me that you are licensed to collect in my state; and
• Provide me with your license numbers and Registered Agent.
If your offices have reported invalid information to any of the three major Credit Bureau's (Equifax, Experian or TransUnion), said action might constitute fraud under both Federal and State Laws. Due to this fact, if any negative mark is found on any of my credit reports by your company or the company that you represent I will not hesitate in bringing legal action against you for the following:
• Violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act
• Violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• Defamation of Character
If your offices are able to provide the proper documentation as requested, I will require at least 30 days to investigate this information and during such time all collection activity must cease and desist.
Also during this validation period, if any action is taken which could be considered detrimental to any of my credit reports, I will consult with my legal counsel. This includes any information to a credit reporting repository that could be inaccurate or invalidated or verifying an account as accurate when in fact there is no provided proof that it is.
If your offices fail to respond to this validation request within 30 days from the date of your receipt, all references to this account must be deleted and completely removed from my credit file and a copy of such deletion request shall be sent to me immediately.
I would also like to request, in writing, that no telephone contact be made by your offices to my home or to my place of employment. If your offices attempt telephone communication with me, including but not limited to computer generated calls or correspondence sent to any third parties, it will be considered harassment and I will have no choice but to file suit. All future communications with me MUST be done in writing and sent to the address noted in this letter.
This is an attempt to correct your records, any information obtained shall be used for that purpose.
This woman has called me multiple times claiming I authorized an online marketing campaign by phone with Telestar. I have never heard of this company before, and never received any type of invoice, bill, or proof of advertising from them. When I requested more information she started threatening me telling me she was going to speak to my supervisor and get me fired. I hung up on her. She called back again, to berate me and tell me I needed to pay this obligation or it would damage my company. This was over a month ago. She just called again, claimed she never spoke to me before, and asked if I received the collections invoice. I had received something by fax, with no address or return phone number. I researched the return fax number that appeared because of the settings on our fax machine, and found it was a number out of Canada. Today when I spoke to her I asked her to give my the name, address, phone number and name of the direct supervisor I should speak to at the company she claims to be collecting for, but after reading the other comments I don't think I should waste anymore time with it. I know it is fraudulent, I just wish I could block her number so she would stop harassing me.
Same issues with everyone else. Says previous business owner arranged this contract with automatic renewals for advertising campaign for business. Requested invoice and original contract. Sent letter with a low quality image of an "invoice". Claims to be Maria Gomez from collections, they will sue company, send people to collect, etc. Asked for information to be sent to lawyers and to police department anti-fraud division. She wanted lawyer's name before providing information. Claims to have recordings of calls with previous owners. Becomes very belligerent and threatening over phone. And she has called twice while filling out this information to further push the case. Warning to all small business owners in Toronto area, this is an ongoing scam which is on the front page of the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. She has just called again wanting to play recording to employee. Told her it has been referred to Toronto Police Anti-Fraud division and hung up.
Said we owe a bill for telstar online for 201-2014, then i received a fax from icr collection & credit bureau stating that i must pay this invoice within three days with my credit card, in the amount of $1,049.95
Same situation here. This so called Maria Gomez has made several threatening phone calls directly to our office admin. Gomez claims our office admin person made a commitment with Telstar back in 2012. Complete fabrication. For whatever they do, Telstar's services are completely out of our market and there is no way in hell we would have agreed to anything on the phone. Nothing but fraud.