Receive calls from this number every week. Just left an automated message, saying I have a pending case against me & that I need to call a Patricia Scott at 248-295-3905. I looked that number up but it doesn't show any office for said Patricia Scott, so I'm assuming it may be a scam.
Receive calls from this number every week. Just left an automated message, saying I have a pending case against me & that I need to call a Patricia Scott at 248-295-3905. I looked that number up but it doesn't show any office for said Patricia Scott, so I'm assuming it may be a scam.
Debt collection scam. If you call that 248-295-3905 number, they ID themselves as ARS or American Resolutions or something similar. It's all nonsense. If there were a pending las case against you, you'd have heard about it from the attorney for the other side. You'd have received a letter. You'd have a paper trail. You would NOT have first heard about it from some scammery scummery debt collector who cold calls you and basically wants some money. Ignore the call and block it. They call from a variety of numbers.
Just because someone on the phone calling you says you owe a debt does not mean you actually owe it.
If a voice on the telephone claims you owe a debt:
1. Demand the person give you his or her name, company name, and address
2. Demand a debt validation letter by US mail. E-mail no good.
3. Do not pay the collection agent or anyone else a dime until the debt is validated
Of course they won’t do this, no scammer ever will, so simply ignore them and block their calls.
If they are bothering you, report them:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection (Threatening civil proceedings with no intent to follow through, or threatening criminal process in order to collect a civil debt is a violation of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.)
Also contact your local attorney general
If they continue to bother you, and you know you do not owe any money, tell them that you know this is a debt scam and that you are making a complaint to the police for extortion. Once you get a copy of the police report and they call you again , just read out the file number and the name of the PD or Sheriff’s office involved. Tell them you’ll be glad to send a copy to them at whatever address the jack***es are working out of now.
You'll probably have to yell at them and talk over them. Tell 'em no scammy debt collector is going to push you around.
You have to get tuff with these people because, being akin to thugs, brute force is (metaphorically speaking). the only thing they understand.
too funny... debt collection company trying to collect debt on some person I have never heard ~ for the past 10 years... No joke, they call my number 2-3 times every year for this mysterious person. Every time I tell them nope never heard of this person, they sell my number attached to this persons name to the next idiot debt collector that wants to call me... I've even tried ignoring the calls but nope the calls continue and the idiot on the auto-messages repeat..
What I see is....... Debt collectors scamming debt collectors by selling them dead-end debt.... too funny!!!