My sister received a call from this phone number asking for me. When I called the number back, a female answered the phone "corporate office". When I explained that my sister had received a phone call from this number I was placed on hold and a different female picked up the line, proceeded to explain to me that I owed Wells-Fargo $843.00 for an overdraft on an account in 2009, but they were willing to settle with me right now if I send Them $500.00" This lady emphasized that if I were to speak to Wells-Fargo about this issue, it would be out of their hands since it was sent to a collection agency, AND I was not to pay the money to Wells-Fargo directly. I asked this female to send me a copy of the claim, and she agreed to do so, but I did not receive it until 5:00pm Friday afternoon. (original call was placed Thursday morning). I have asked for credentials and was never given an answer. I looked up their address (27472 Portola Pkwy., Ste. Foothill Ranch, CA 92610) This is a UPS store. If you call this phone number, a girl will answer "Corporate Office" and you get passed along to someone else. The website they attached in my email (http://www.pls-associates.com) takes you to what appears to be an unfinished website with a heart and the words "My Site, This is my description". Better Business Bureau doesn't know who they are. My "payment arrangement date" has come and gone, and although I have chosen to ignore any future responses from them, they have not written back to me since I asked for their credentials.
I was contacted by a gentleman that was claiming to be a legal rep for a collection agency. He stated that I had written a bad check from a Wells Fargo account back in 2009. Due to never resolving this issue, I was being taken to court and sued for $3000+. He stated that if I made arrangements to pay an agreed upon amount then they would retract the court documents from litigation. When I agreed to settle to $600 is when things got strange. He gave me a Bank of America account number and told me to go to my nearest branch and deposit money in that account. When I had done that I was to call him back and give him the transaction number. This sent a red flag high into the sky for me. I called Wells Fargo and they check Chex Systems and didn’t find any delinquent accounts associated with my Social Security number. I also called Bank of America and they stated that the method that this company was attempting to have me pay to was in the parameters of a scam. I called a friend who works for a repeatable collection agency and they had not record of this company. I called the company again and asked for an account number for “my” Wells Fargo account. The gentleman got extremely defensive. This information that I collected from this “company” is as follows…
PLS Capital Group
Contacted by Aaron Holder
Call back number given 888-310-6510 ex 229
Caller ID number shown 949-954-7550
Wells Fargo “account” number 12000008964390200 (Wells Fargo Stated that this is not a real account number)
Bank of America account number I was told to deposit money to 2786274748
My sister received a call from this phone number asking for me. When I called the number back, a female answered the phone "corporate office". When I explained that my sister had received a phone call from this number I was placed on hold and a different female picked up the line, proceeded to explain to me that I owed Wells-Fargo $843.00 for an overdraft on an account in 2009, but they were willing to settle with me right now if I send Them $500.00" This lady emphasized that if I were to speak to Wells-Fargo about this issue, it would be out of their hands since it was sent to a collection agency, AND I was not to pay the money to Wells-Fargo directly. I asked this female to send me a copy of the claim, and she agreed to do so, but I did not receive it until 5:00pm Friday afternoon. (original call was placed Thursday morning). I have asked for credentials and was never given an answer. I looked up their address (27472 Portola Pkwy., Ste. Foothill Ranch, CA 92610) This is a UPS store. If you call this phone number, a girl will answer "Corporate Office" and you get passed along to someone else. The website they attached in my email (http://www.pls-associates.com) takes you to what appears to be an unfinished website with a heart and the words "My Site, This is my description". Better Business Bureau doesn't know who they are. My "payment arrangement date" has come and gone, and although I have chosen to ignore any future responses from them, they have not written back to me since I asked for their credentials.
Received voicemail on May 15, 2013 from a Kelly Smith claiming that she's calling about a pending issue in her office. States she's made several attempts (stresses the word several) to contact me cause she needs to verify info on my property. (gives my address). Tells me it's imperative that I contact her office right away, her number there is toll free 888-310-6510. Also leaves a "reference" number. I called the toll free number and a lady answered the phone not by a company name but by saying corporate office. When I asked the company name she countered by asking for my name which I did not give. I gave her the reference number, that was left on my voicemail and she said it was my son she was looking for, they needed a "statement" from him and wanted his contact info. I informed her I would pass a message on to him but would not give contact info to her. My son called them and asked for a physical address were he could mail a certified letter of validation and was told by the woman he spoke with that she was at a "remote" and did not know the address..?? Lucky for my son I have several friends who are attorneys, a couple who are Assistant DAs and I'm also friends with the DA here so we are getting very good advice on how to handle this matter. I also wanted to add that I've discovered this company is connected to at least 3 other companies (2 are Law firms.. never known a lawyer to own and practice at 2 different firms) and the same lawyers' name keeps showing up as either the owner or President on the other 2 businesses.
At first I was very freaked out by this call. They knew a lot about me and said I was having a legal matter filed against me. They read off my information and knew a lot about where I lived and even the last of my social. They wanted $1500 or they were going to file with the county for $6000. Lucky for me I was smart and called by father first and now I find this site. I don't know really what to do next but first order is to call Wells Fargo. The woman on the line told me she was in Ontario but when she sent me the payment form it was listed for Foothill Ranch and the address...yup UPS store. Her name was Chloe Lane and she gave me her direct line of 909-458-0450. The scary part is how much they knew about me. With the amount of identity theft around I have always tried to keep close care to keep my information off the line but they still got it some how which makes me believe that may Wells Fargo is helping them like how Zion Bank was just found to be helping scammers. And all the calls listed here seem to be in the last few weeks. I hope anyone that gets a call from this people finds this site, because this is very stressful to find out.
Wow, my story is almost verbatim as all the others on this report about "PLS and Associates" with the exception of it being a returned check fee from a closed Wachovia account in 2009. My so called contact person was Jose Sanchez. He was willing to settle my account for 709.00 for the original fee of 35.00. I demanded written information, stating that if he had the info he was going to use to take me to court, then he certainly had the info I would need to prove he was legit. Of course there has been no response to that. Just more threats and blustering over the internet. Thanks to all of you that helped me prove that it was a scam and providing me with some relief.