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Mike
Country: United States
I am having the same experience as everyone, harassing calls for a family member. I have asked for them to stop calling and was told very rudely that the calls would never stop till I gave them my sisters info and the dead debt was re-established. Well after a bit of searching I found they registered their number, 877-571-5847, with ringcentral.com. Under their legal policy, sec. 6, they specifically mention harassing phone calls. I would suggest everyone to call them and file a complaint. Good luck!
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Threatening you with a lawsuit is illegal! Calling relatives and harassing them is illegal! They are in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. If we all report them "Liz" and "Carl Davis" will go away!
Once, the "Corona Scam", often used P.O. Boxes in and around Corona.
See FTC v. Rincon, et al.
The other, the "Han Dynasty", was also shut down recently.
FTC took everything, and the perps have multimillion dollar judgements hanging over them.
Contact FTC.
www.ftc.gov
They called my cell phone and my friend's cell. I haven't got a clue how they found my friend's number. They left a message saying " my name is Corey Mathews and I'm calling from the first distribution services. I want to verify that someone over the age of 18 will be able to receive documents under your behalf. We will Make attempts to come to your place of employment, and the property address we have in question. So if you have an attorney, make sure you have him or her call the office at 877-679-4173.this is the last attempt, we will classify as a failed attempt. We will take farther actions without your knowledge"
I called and a woman name Davis answered. She told me that I owe $1700 on a MasterCard from 2007. She told me that I had 24 hours to pay or my wages would be garnished.
I actually called the MasterCard company and they told me to call the police because it was a scam.
I told Ms. Davis that I was calling the police. She continued to tell me that they are legitimate company and I have 24 hours to call around to verify their ligitimacy...,but shouldn't they be the ones proving to me that they are legitimate?!
Funny thing is this ex-law enforcement officer they called never sent me anything by mail. I do suspect they are harassing me, but I refused to call them back.
I figure let them file their complaint. If they want to sue me for I do not know what (I was disabled by an illness in 2007 and two failed surgeries that have been giving me reoccurring MRSA infections - sepsis). I had a small amount of debt but for two years I was forced to live on 20 percent of my normal salary.
So any debt I have that was written off due to my disability is more than 7 years old, and that is 3 years more than Florida Statutes allow (statute of limitations to collect a debt here in Florida is 4 years).
So I think tomorrow I will contact our attorney general's office and file a complaint against them. A call from them should stop their crap.
But because I have no earned income and disability cannot be attached by anyone but the federal government, they can sue all they want. I lost all my assets to my ex-wife in my divorce, so I wish them luck.
However, I wish I had something from them in writing.
Profile is consistent with another "Corona" scam.
Damn town is infested with them.
Typical profile:
1) Located in Riverside County, CA, often Corona or surrounding areas like Lake Elsinore.
2) They commonly hide behind UPS Store maildrops.
3) Pretend to be some "process server", often calling relatives or employers first, to create the appearance of some "lawsuit".
4) Usually just talk all serious and legal, leaving a number to call back, to reach the "closer"
5) The "closer" has experience in talking you out of your money, while the "caller" ("process server") is hired off the streat to lie their [***] off, all deniable of course.
6) "Split deception" allows over the top implied threats, with "plausible deniabilitiy".
That's apparently what they all learned, so you see it over and over, like they're reading from the same scripts.
Contact FTC. They shut down two large clusters of scam collection agencies a couple years back. Looks like they're still at it.
If they call again, tell them you're a filing firm, and you have papers to serve them when they come.
burning up my home phone, I have not been answering these calls I guess these are the same people 160 West Foothills Pkway Corona Ca. office # 855-674-5535 fax #951- 296-6257,
The sleazy "collection agencies" who do this are attempting to use harassing tactics to coerce payment rather than follow FDCPA compliant procedures. These are generally tactics aimed at extracting payment without providing any proof it's owed, so that suggests there is something funny about the alleged "debt", and that they know it. Might not be owed, might be owed by someone else, might be an illegal "payday loan" from an unlicensed lender, might be a "debt" from some scam company, etc.
Harassing, abusive, or deceptive collection violates FDCPA. So does disclosing a debt to third parties without your permission. You can sue them for FDCPA violations.
Corona was home to a large cluster of sleazy collection agencies using similar deceptive and harassing tactics. They were raided and closed down by FTC back in 2011.
File complaints with FTC and your state Attorney General, to report illegal harassment and third party disclosure of the alleged "debt". Be sure to contact FTC, as this might be some ex-Corona Scam "alumnae" setting up another "office".
What should I do?????
Winchester Financial Group
Division One Services
Legacy Law
First Division Services
Winchester Financial Team
Winchester Group
Winchester Legal Group
and various other names.
They are part of the junk debt buyers that buy old debt that either never existed or is past the SoL. Several "employee names" that are associated with this company are:
Michael Benjamin
Alex Martinez
Mya Green
Tina Cochran
and several others. More than likely not their real names.
"Legacy Management Group" is one of the junk debt buyers who bought compromised debt from United Credit Recovery, who's owner was indicted for falsifying documents related to this debt and for bribing an exec with US Bank.
Indictment here (it is now unsealed): http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/us ... _indictment.pdf