SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!
Complaint
Pissed consumer
Country: United States
I was contacted about 3 weeks ago from a private number while I was at work and was told the sheriff was at my house and that I was suppose to be there for him to arrest me. I was told I can contact 8888580822 to avoid being arrested and prosecuted(which is when I first suspected something). I contacted the number and spoke to someone who proceeded to tell me that I had written a bad check and was being charged with check fraud. I asked for something in writing to verify this information because all the loans I have taken out, I had paid back double almost triple what I borrowed. I was then transferred to a very rude lady who did nothing but argue with me. Finally, she agreed to send me a statement and told me once I received it I had to put my credit card information on file to payoff what was owed. So, I got an email from a mona516@aol.com (which is when a second suspicion was raised) which looked like someone just typed it up in microsoft word (which anyone can do) and didn't even come from a company email. Well, I have family who are in the field of law and addressed my concerns with them. They advised me it sounded like illegal scare tactics to get my banking information (which they did ask for), used by junk debt buyers to get me to pay a bill that has probably already been paid. It took a couple of weeks to really track these people down. We were able to pull the llc information which came back as: full name of this agency is national revenue reporting inc. It was first established on March 1st of this year (2013).It is registered as a domestic business corporation and does show an active status.The address they are registered to is 3719 Union Rd. Ste 117b Cheektowaga NY.There is also a listing on rip off report which you can find here. http://www.ripoffreport.com/national-revenue-rep/collection-agency-s/cheektowaga-new-york-ee1bd.htm . The owner of this establishment is a girl (21yr old) by the name of Ramona Clemons from Lackawanna, NY. She may even possibly work as one of the masked collectors using a ficticious name. My suggestion to you is that if you are contacted by this company, record everything, write down the names of the people you deal with, save any messages left for you on your phone and contact your local and the NY State attorney generals office and file a complaint. They can be held liable for up to $1000 for each violation of the fdcpa or more. Hopefully this information helps.
Comments
Cheektowaga is in the Buffalo NY area, so no real surprise.
Used to be Buffalo scammers made their living conning senile old people by phone, until the FBI came down hard on them back in the mid 1990s. Looks like they just changed to "debt collection", but it's still just conning.
File a fraud complaint with the NY Attorney General.
State Attorney Generals are more effective. If they get enough fraud complaints, they can sue them, or trace their phone numbers and raid them. NY AG in particular has been pretty active against scam debt collectors in the Buffalo area, raiding some, and prosecuting some of the callers for larceny.
File fraud complaints with your state AG, and the NY AG.