Funny, $530 is exactly what they said they would "settle" with me for. The # they called me from is 405-569-6003 which comes up as Mill Valley, CA. I called these people back a few times just to mess with them. It felt good. I pretended like I was still researching the debt but really I just wanted to hear them stutter and fall over themselves. Eventually they would hang up on me after putting me on hold. I told them I went to their web site and it looks like a four year old did it and the woman put me on hold to "research the web site I'm referencing". Haha. All of a sudden they don't know about their own company's web site? They're not real bright and I hope karma comes back on them big time.
I just received a call last week from the people at crdsllc.com, or county recovery and diversified services, LLC. They were claiming I owed money to an alarm company that I had signed a contract with almost ten years ago. The company was ADT via their local subsidiary Pinnacle Security (a now defunct company as of a couple years ago). The woman at diversified, who had a thick islander accent told me that I had paid on the debt four years ago so they were still within the statute of limitations to collect (they told me this after I asked about the law). When I asked for their company name and address they told me to go to their web site crdsllc.com, which as you can see looks like it was done by a four year old. I called ADT and they told me that I only had inquired about an alarm system with them but never signed a contract. I didn't remember if the debt was legitimate, or not, because it was ten years ago. When I called diversified back and told them what ADT told me they said I could settle for half of what they were asking me for just an hour earlier (it went from over a grand to $500). I told them that the whole thing seemed completely fraudulent and I wanted the info in writing. I then even sent them an email via their web site asking for it in writing and surprise, surprise never received a response. They had started out with all kinds of threats of dinging my credit again and suing me. I told them none of this was on my credit and they assured me it was. They asked when was the last time I actually looked at my credit report and I had just done so that morning (haha the shmucks weren't expecting that!). These people are crafty but not too crafty. They gave me a plain old case number like #188 to make it seem legitimate. Even Starbucks has a more complicated number system. They got a hold of my brother and mother before I contacted them back. They went through great lengths to make it all seem legitimate but of course, it's not. So that's the gist of it, if anyone needs any more info to help them out from also being potentially scammed, just respond to this.
After hours robo-greeter IDs herself as "Monica Armstrong" of Diversified Services.
[This number is assigned to
a David Davidson.who has an address of
6509 S Transit Rd
Lockport, NY 14094
See: http://www.b2byellowpages.com/company-information/301597708-davidson-david.html]
Most lilkely a spoofed number.
Several firms have "Diversified" in their names. Hard to tell where this call is really coming from.
Funny, $530 is exactly what they said they would "settle" with me for. The # they called me from is 405-569-6003 which comes up as Mill Valley, CA. I called these people back a few times just to mess with them. It felt good. I pretended like I was still researching the debt but really I just wanted to hear them stutter and fall over themselves. Eventually they would hang up on me after putting me on hold. I told them I went to their web site and it looks like a four year old did it and the woman put me on hold to "research the web site I'm referencing". Haha. All of a sudden they don't know about their own company's web site? They're not real bright and I hope karma comes back on them big time.