I had a similar incident and feel badly for all the other people who fall for this collections scam by ADHW. They claimed I owned $65 but 3 years of interest and late fees totalling $280 dollars. Said I never rec'd an invoice. she said it was in the box with the goods. They don't send invoices or statements. When I said I would pay the $65 or some reduced fee, they wouldn't even take a credit card, and she (Anna Bills...probably not her real name of ADHW) wanted my personal checking routing number and checking account number. Then I knew for sure this was a scam. She said I'll see you in court. Interestly she was calling me under my divorced name of over 14 years ago....so until she gets my name right, I'm not worried.
Glad I looked this up on line to see all the other scams. thanks for sharing.
i received a call from this number claiming it was Disadvantaged Workers of America. The call came in at 7PM on a Friday evening saying I would be turned over to collection on Monday if I didn't pay $165 over the phone today. We hadn't ordered anything from Disadvantaged Workers of America in about 10 years but they said it was for lightbulbs in 2009. I asked for a phone number to call them back. I was given the number 562-866-1361 and it just rang and rang. It is registered to Agueda Mercado.
My parents received the same phone call last week. Dad is now contacting State Attorney General, Better Business Bureau and an attorney. After some research online, I found that this is apparently a common practice with this group. They have some kind of judgement against them in PA and I believe they are not supposed to be doing business here. Just Google them and you come up with a lot of interesting stuff.
Oh, my goodness--so glad I googled this number! I just received a phone call that was a carbon copy of yours! The woman said that I was to be turned over to collections on Friday (this is Wednesday), and that she was calling from the corporate offices of the Disadvantaged Workers and giving me a courtesy call so I could "take care of this matter". She also said that I had ordered light bulbs in 2009 and had not paid for them. I told her that I had not ordered or received any light bulbs, and she said that they had the postal confirmation. She told me that I would be receiving my "court date" soon. I was suckered into their scam about 10 years ago--but never again. I told her I had been receiving threatening phone calls from a man who said that he worked for them. When I told him I could not and would not order anything from them, he called me a witch and told another man in the room "We have her credit card number--run the card, run the card!", and then informed me that they were "running the card" and that I would be charged $500 for garbage bags! Those bogus charges never appeared on my card, but I am so angry that I can hardly type. These people need to be jailed!
I received that exact same call on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011 as Sickofit (except she said I ordered carpet/airfreshener). The thought of having something go to collections really scared me and I almost paid it just to be safe but then the things she said did not add up and I knew there was no way I purchased what she said. I have filed a complaint with the BBB and the Washington State Attorney General's Office Consumer Protection Division. I am hoping that this well help anyone else this happens to.
I received a call from this number as well. They are stating the same thing as the above. I can't believe that they are foolish enough to give out the phone number that they gave...Glad that I was able to google the number and find out that my thoughts about the call were correct.SCAM