Nope. Fair Credit (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre18.shtm) covers you there. Debt collectors may not disclose details of a debt to any third party (note, however, that if you are married your spouse is not a third party). Reading around, it's also illegal to threaten you, particularly with an arrest, and it is also illegal for them to provide you with false identification. Looks to me like either a desperate debt collector or a scam.
i JUST RECVD A CALL TODAY FROM SHARON JACKSON. sHE TOLD ME SHE WAS FROM A DISTRICT ATTORNY'S OFFICE AND IF I DIDN'T PAY 785.64 BY 12:45PM TODAY. SHE WOULD HAVE THE JUDGE IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY ISSUE PROCEEDING AGANIST ME. VERY RUDE CURT. NEVER IDENTIFIED HERSELF WHEN I CALLED BACK. NOR DID SHE NAME THE COMPNY. SHE WORKED FOR. ALSO ACCUSED ME OF NOT BEING MYSELF WHEN I CALLED HER BACK. NOT WILLING TO WORK WITH ME.
This morning Sharon Jackson called my home AND my parents and told my boyfriend and my parents that I owed money for a bad check and that I was going to be arrested. She refused to give them the name of her company and hung up on both when they tried to get additional information. So, my b-friend and parents both called me frantically. I called Sharon Jackson and asked her why she was calling my parents (I'm a grown adult out of the house for 15 years)she told me it was because of a check I stopped payment on and that I was going to be arrested. I asked who she was with and if she was part of a govenment agency at that point she hung up on me. I called her back and tried to get her some information to try to figure out what this was all about. She was terribly rude and unprofessional. She threatened to have me arrested several times. I told her I did not believe she had the right person and that I would go to my bank and see what they had to say about it. That is when she hung up on me the second time. A few minutes later she called me back.. Told me it was my last chance, I had 1 hour to send her $746.19 or I was going to be arrested.
When I got off the phone with Sharon, I immediately called the State of Texas Attorney General's Office. I explained just what I have written here. The person I spoke with at the AG's office told me they have pages and pages of complaints against this company and that what they are doing is highly illegal and that it is most likey a scam.
I do not owe this money they have the wrong person in my case.
Even if you do owe the money this awful company is trying to collect. Let me 100% assure you - they can not arrest you. It is illegal and you can SUE THEM under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for them even threatening it.
Make a formal complaint with your state's Attorney General's Office the State of Florida's AG's Office and the FTC they all have on line complaint forms.
Today I received a call from Sharon Jackson threatening to arrest me if I didn't pay her $1,032 for a $700 stop-payment check that was written over 2 years ago. I told her that the check never cleared the bank and she accused me of fraud. She said that if she didn't receive the money by 3:45 this afternoon, I would be arrested and it would cost me another $2,000 in fines. She said it was a third-party check but would not tell me who the 3rd party was. When my husband got on the phone and tried to get more detailed information, she was very indignant and hung up on him. I called the police department and was advised not to pay anything; it is probably a collection agency trying anything to get money. Beware!