My husband got a call today from Brandy for me to return call. When I did, she told me I had 5 bad checks on an account from 2007 with a bank I've never heard of. Said the checks were in mine and my EX husbands name and if I didn send $2397.00 by 5pm today, I would have felony warrants issued by 9am tomorrow for 5 counts of account fraud and bad checks. Very smartass attitude. I asked for a copy of checks to be emailed to me, she said it would be tomorrow but could fax them today. When I gave her fax number, the ' faxing ' dept had already closed for the day. This was @ 1pm. I researched the bank the checks were 'drawn on ' and it has been out of business since 1996. I called her back and all she could say was the checks were wrote in 2007. Then hung up on me. After I researched and found this site, I called once again to tell her to kiss my [***] and she wouldn't accept the call. I also looked up the address on Google Earth, and it doesn't exist. Lawrenceville Hwy goes from 4398 to 4418. No 4402 in between. SCAM ARTIST!!!
We received a call from this number (a Ms Smith), stating a check from 2007 on a supposedly closed account was to be collected...demanding that we borrow the money, to be paid within 24 hours or "felony" charges would go to the P.A. We had NO outstanding checks. We were rather puzzled...
They were very pushy, unreasonable and red-flags went off in my head.
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The check was not even our account, but my wife's Mother...I called the P.A and found some info. Then i called 'Ms Smith' back and told her to f**k off. Ms Smith asked me if I was willing to "test the theory" from the P.A information...I said "yes I would"...Ms Smith hung up on me.
Their website is very unprofessional, full of grammatical error, illogical in business model...and to me, seems like a scam-site.
i am livid that i got a call regarding a cheque from 2 years ago for a total amount of less than sixteen dollars. i am a canadian. i have never bounced a cheque in my life and never had one returned to me. they have no proof of the account number or cheque itself. how do i know that this happened? are they a real collection agency or, an extortion group? for $16, they asked if i had ever been to prison!!!
i am wasting time over this, and offered to pay the 16 for whoever it is just to get my name off their books, and then they told me i need to pay $180. i dont owe anything! if this happened in canada, they would lose their liscence instantly. i am livid!
I am receiving calls from this number,with a message to call them immediately,that an investigation is in progress that involves me.In the first place this is my cell phone & certainly have no bad check problems.
I recently had an office phone line installed in my home for business reasons and cannot believe the number of telemarketer and scam calls I started getting within 48hrs. It's like the phone company gave my number out to every solicitor on earth and rang the dinner bell. I received a call from 770-554-4422 one evening with a very serious sounding, recorded female voice saying I had to "call them immediately regarding a case that involved me", but with no other information given about who was calling, the name of their company, etc..etc. I Googled the number and found the number belonged to Gateway Retrieval, a supposed Debt Collection service. Because I haven't bounced a check since I was 18 and have excellent credit I monitor every month, and because the call came in on my business line that I've only given to business associates, I strongly suspected it was a bait call fishing for people to call them back so they can attempt their scam. I quickly found many internet blogs confirming my suspicions, that mentioned this company and their scam tactics. Needless to say, their VM about "a case that involves me" got the good old #7 key (delete message).