This company keeps calling my job and family members leaving messages with them. I already talked to them and told them I need written proof and they said that can't be done they have my SS and address I don't know what to do.
I received a call from "Impact Mediation" claiming that I didn't pay a internet payday loan from 2012. They said I could pay it off today or I would be taken to court. I asked for them to send me some written documentation stating all the facts. But they claimed that couldn't be done because they're not a collection agency. The called ended with the person getting agitated with me and simply telling me that he was just giving me a verbal notification that I'm being taken to court and to have a Nice day.
This is most likely a phony group which I believe is part of the Global Scam out of Jamaica or perhaps the Island of Nevis. Or Nassau in the Bahamas. Clearly an off-shore scamming group.
They also call from many other numbers see: 251-301-9797, 800notes. This is a Jamaican or Nevis or Nassau or Trinidad (I'm pretty sure) offshore group.
They also go by many different names:
ACI
ACS
ARA
Atlantic
Capital Indemnity Solutions
Capital Law
Capital Risk
Capital Services,
First Recovery,
First Recovery Associates
GDS
GDS Solutions
Global Service Group
Global Solutions,
Horizon Opportunities
Impact Mediation
Internal Processing Solutions
International Process
International Processing Solutions
IPS (Not this group: http://onlineips.net/contact/ See warning on site)
International Retrieval Center
IRC
ITS
Manhattan Processing (MP)
NAR
NRA
Northwest Recovery
National Recovery
Provisional Risk Services.
Possibly Piedmont Recovery or some variation.
Spotlight
They may use other CIDs and phony creditors as well. Their signature phrase when you ask them where they are located is to say: "they are in Miami but have 48 locations in the US". Right. Lately they’ve been adding the phrase “except Hawaii and Alaska. Just to show you they now have learned some geography. These people are nothing more than overseas scammers. Ignore these people and block their calls.
Report them: See: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
My own research suggests that they are the remnants of
CWB Services, LLC. (Cutter Group)
2114 Central Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64110
Sued by the FTC in 2013. Can’t operate in the US, so they used their Jamaican or Nevis subsidiaries to carry on the scam. Which accounts for the US – like scamming operations they engage in.
Additional Business Names Related to CWB Services:
Basseterre
Anasazi Group / Anasazi Services
Cardinal Credit Payday Loan
Clearwater Bay Marketing
CP Investors, LLC
Cutter Group LLC AKA Longboat/Cutter Group
Greenwood Holding Group, LLC.
Insight Capital
Mass Street Group
Namakan Capital
National Recovery Service
OPD Solutions, LLC.
Pack Management Group, LLC.
Quick Cash / QuickCash.com
Sandpoint Capital LLC
Shoreline Online, LLC
St. Armands Services, LLC
Triple Services, LLC
Twin Bluffs
Vandelier Group, LLC.
Also see:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/132-3184/cwb-services-llc
Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff, v. CWB Services, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company;
Orion Services, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company;
Sandpoint Capital, LLC, a Nevis limited liability company;
Sandpoint, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Basseterre Capital, LLC, a Nevis limited liability company;
Basseterre Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Namakan Capital, LLC, a Nevis limited liability company;
Namakan Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Vandelier Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
St. Armands Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Anasazi Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Anasazi Services LLC, a Missouri limited liability company;
Longboat Group LLC, also doing business as Cutter Group, a Delaware limited liability company;
Oread Group LLC, also doing business as Mass Street Group, a Delaware limited liability company;
Timothy A. Coppinger, individually and as a principal of one or more of the Corporate Defendants; and
Frampton T. Rowland, III, individually and as a principal of one or more of the Corporate Defendants, Defendants
Note that Cutter Group is listed as a Defendant
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Ignore and block all calls coming from the above groups.
} claimed that couldn't be done because they're not a collection agency
The whining of "We're not debt collectors, we're [select one] ( arbitrators / assessment specialists / attorneys / detectives / investigators / mediators / mitigators / pre-litigation specialists / process servers )" is a form of "objection handling" long and widely applied by thugs trafficking in junk debt portfolios, and by outright crooks pretending to collect a debt.
None of that flimsy rebranding jives with the FTC definition of "debt collector", which applies when the desired outcome is for you to pay money to some place other than the original creditor to allegedly satisfy a debt. Said crooks and thugs who want you to believe otherwise are violating your rights and trying to distract you from fighting and suing *them* as you can and should in response.
It does not matter if "you actually owe". The CFPB and FTC and the drafters of the FDCPA would not wish that you pay one dime to hostile creeps who take illegal shortcuts to your money. When collection thugs deny your rights, they should be paying you for the hassle, not the reverse.
This company keeps calling my job and family members leaving messages with them. I already talked to them and told them I need written proof and they said that can't be done they have my SS and address I don't know what to do.