Just a follow up to my above post. I had some time to kill on 8/10/2010 so I stopped by the county courthouse. The "complaint number" provided by Gary King from 877-573-2104 (his direct line came thru as 716-650-2640) is NOT a valid complaint/case file number with the county, despite Mr. King's allegation. The county clerk's office has no cases filed against the individual Mr. King was looking for. This would indeed appear to be a scam caller, trying to intimidate the person who had my phone number before me into paying up or giving out a cc number or something.
And another follow up.... Mr. King contacted me again today at 10:57 am, again looking for the same individual. I let the answering machine pick up. He again indicated that legal action had been taken against the individual he was looking for, provided a case number, and stated that if she did not return his call promptly she would be reported as uncooperative to the courts and would face jail time. He did not leave her ssn this time. I promptly returned his call, indicated that we had talked on 8/10/2010 and had told him that this woman did not have my phone number any longer, that I did not know her or know how to reach her, and that he had been instructed not to call again. I also told him that I had been to the county courthouse while at the DMV and checked up on his case number, that the courts had nothing filed against this woman or her ssn, and that the "case number" he provided and claimed was the court case number was not valid. Mr. King proceeded to curse me, call me a liar, tell me I didn't know what I was talking about, told me to get a job, claimed a recording which would prove he had not left a ssn the first time he called (I informed him that nowhere in his current conversation had he informed me that the call was to collect a debt and was being recorded, thereby a violation of the FTC debt collection practices) and then hung up on me. I called back and Mr. King answered immediately. He told me I was harassing him and that he was going to file legal action against me. I asked to speak with his supervisor and he again repeated his threat, but did transfer me to his supervisor, a Brian Evan. I provided Mr. Evan a very brief synopsis and instructed him again that NO ONE from Rubin & Yates is to phone this number again, or I would file a complaint with the Pendleton County sheriff as instructed by the clerk at the court office.
I got a call today from this number and the message stated that they were calling for me (gave my first and last name) in regards to a complaint that was filed against me and my social security number that he had on his desk. He also said that he needs to hear from me by 5pm today or I will lose my right to participate in this matter. How vague is all that? He called my cell phone and my home phone which is not even published. Not sure how they got either number since I never put them down on anything. I guess if it was that important and they are able to find my numbers out of the thin air, they could just mail something instead. Finding an address should be easier than finding my cell phone number.
Well I agree with everyone on here Rubin and Yates are nothing but bullying crooks. I just made a payment arragement with them after they told be if i didn't the cost would go up $4000. (if I waited until the next day) I am in the process of paying back all my debt that I was unable to pay so I thought okay well lets not add more so let me take care of this one. The next day I went into by credit report and some settelment letters I have recieved for debit that has been paid and the one they were collecting on was one I already paid. So now I am having a problem getting them to speak with me about stopping those payments. I am having to close my bank account so they do not take anymore money out for something I had already paid. And by the way it was paid through a totally different collection agency.
They called me and said they were a law firm , I told them they had the wrong number and they said they got the the number from the sheriffs dept and I was lying and they will be calling me to get the right number. They then said my name was on caller I'd and I'm being recorded saying I'm not k gonzales. They then said they would put me on 3 way to call phone company to change the name on caller I'd. Right after that they called my cell phone leaving a message for my laywer to call there law firm.