This is a common ploy by criminals attempting to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged, go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished, etc. all for an alleged or nonexistent debt.
Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt. It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes. The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.
Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send and also make a complaint at this government site: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices: http://consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
The person calling from this number claim to be Michelle Brown. She states she is working for a pre-trial processing company. She never gives the name of the company she works for nor an ID number. This woman has also called me from numbers (919)364-0745 and 541-3712972 which is an Oregon number. I do not understand how you can be in Oregon one moment and NC the next. She also states that the Human Resource Department will be serving me an arrest warrent. In my research and calls to the the local police department. HR cannot send out any arrest papers nor is this Pre-trial processing company legit. If you look up Pre-trial processing online you will see nothing but SCAM notifications. Also I did a phone reverse online. the 919-230-8134 comes up as Telcom Operations of NC. This company as you can see (and I copied and pasted) "Telcove Operations Inc. is a business consulting service located in Greensboro, North Carolina." AND they had enough nerve to attach a Level 3 communications logo to their business. What is level 3? (Again I copied and Pasted)
Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications is an American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. It operates a Tier 1 network. The company provides core transport, IP, voice, video, and content delivery for most of the medium to large Internet carriers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and selected cities in Asia. Level 3 is also the largest competitive local exchange carrier and the 2nd largest provider of fiber optic internet access in the United States.
I cannot get an address from Michelle Brown because she refuses to give me one only because she want a debit card number from me. To test her I stated that I did not have the money, she then told me she would call me back after I call some friends to get their information to pay off my debt with her. THIS IS A SCAM NUMBER. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. AS ADVISED BY MY LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT, IF ANYONE COMES TO YOUR JOB, IMMEDIATELY CALL THE POLICE. THEY HAVE BEEN KNOW TO POSE AS POLICEMEN, FBI, ETC TO GET MONEY OUT OF PEOPLE.
She has called me also. She called my son and my brother. This is getting old. She says the she thing. I have notified the local sheriffs dept.I have blocked three numbers and She called from another.
This is a common ploy by criminals attempting to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged, go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished, etc. all for an alleged or nonexistent debt.
Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt. It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes. The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.
Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send and also make a complaint at this government site: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices: http://consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php
Also using the name Shelly Brown 919-230-8137 everything else above is correct I suggest as i will do that you contact the NC AG (Attorney General) and file a complaint.