They called my brother who gave me the message. They are referring to themselves as World Wide Assets. They are trying to collect on a Walmart card that was opened in my name in 2003 and payment were being made regularly until Jan 2008. I never had a Walmart card in my life. I told him I just ran a credit report to start cleaning up some old stuff and it wasn't on there. He said after seven yrs of no payments if comes off the credit report. Well if that's true then it should still be on my credit report until 2015. It wasn't there. So I called GE Capital/Walmart to get some information and they were supposed to be sending out paperwork to me. Still haven't seen any of that and that was over a week ago. The guy was very nice though and did say he would take a settlement of $500 and change. I said well, since you can't provide me with a signatur or even copies of the payments that were being made to prove that it is mine why would I pay for it then. I have never denied my debt. May have paid it late but never said I didn't owe it if I did. I have made many deals with people to pay stuff off.
I am a front desk receptionist and our business received a message that stated, "We are World Wide Associates and we are trying to contact you. Please call back." I called back with the intent of having our business number removed from their calling list. The operator asked for a "Gary" something or other. I responded with "No. That person does not work in at this business or office. Please take our business number off of your calling list." Can you believe that the operator actually told me no! She could take the number off the list because I'm not Gary??? THIS IS HARASSMENT AND NO BUSINESSES CANNOT RELEASE EMPLOYMENT OR WORK VERFICATION OVER THE PHONE. IT IS ILLEGAL AND AN INVASION OF PRIVACY.
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IF YOU THINK THIS IS A SCAM THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ITS CALLED A CHAIN OF TITLE CONTACT THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITH THE ORIGINAL ACCOUNT INFO WITCH THEY WILL PROVIDE TO YOU ASK FOR THERE RECOVERY DEPARTMENT THEY THEN WILL TELL YOU WHO THEY SOLD YOUR ACCOUNT TO .THEN YOU CAN CONTACT THAT PARTY IF THEY SOLD IT THEY WILL PROVIDE THE INFORMATION TO WHOM THEY SOLD IT TO AND SO ON.... TRY IT BEFORE YOU START PUTTING A BAD NAME ON SOMETHING YOU DONT REALLY KNOW THIS IS PROVIDED FOR YOU PROTECTION
I did call the company back and spoke with John C..., polite enough. Just said that someone used my cell number as a point of contact but said he couldn't legally give me any further information.Told me he'd remove the number from their system. Same message as the rest saying that they have tried several times to contact me....
Just a collection agency using whatever number they have to try and get their customer's money.