Harassment
Complaint
Debra M. Persiano
Country: United States
I got a call today at home from a man stating he was a process server for Collin County DA's Office and he is with the Sheriff's office and needed to come serve a warrant on me. I was shocked and asked why? He stated do you live ....are you still at this address are you now at this address and I stated who are you? He again, stated he was from the county going to serve court papers on me today. He gave me a toll free number for what he stated was the county's office which is 1 866.872.6116 gave me a case no. which he called a Cause No. 008307-TX. I called the number was transferred to a Mr. Fisher's office who stated that law suite in the amount of $6,214.24 was filed in Collin Co., Tx and that warrant was out for me. He then after back and forth said let me get more information from my secretary and state this was for an outstanding debt in from Capital One a credit card that I obtained several years back and had disputes over interest charges etc. He stated that if I did not want to go to court or jail that I could pay $1,951.00 in full by end of business today and this matter could be cleared up. I explained that I recently lost my job etc. Anyway, he stated that I needed to call him back by EOB today or they will serve the papers. Ok, so that was a heads up for me. I called the DA's office nothing is filed on me as of today, after searching PMG it is clear that they do not practice best practices for collections and have been in trouble for this before back in 2004. I need someone to give me advise. I want to pay off my debt, I don't want this type of collections to continue this upset me, made my blood pressure raise, this type of collections are not the right thing to do. Had they called and ask to make arrangements or give me an opportunity to clear the matter, rather then threaten me by taken legal action, or harassment stating they are sending a sheriff over today. This is wrong, bad business, and should not continue this company is bad news.
Comments
1) This is a company with some "reputation". No, just a bunch of disposable shells. Next month, you could have a new name, maybe you already do.
2) The FTC is "a little tired of the deadbeats". No, complaints against debt collectors are the largest and fastest rising group of FTC complaints, FDCPA violations don't depend on whether any debt is even owed or not, and the lawsuit is proceeding.
3) The posts are by the "competition". No, your competition wouldn't want to call further attention to the same scam they are running. In fact, more likely they are pissed at you for stirring up so much interest, as you have now threatened their little racket as well.
You just keep making it up.
In common law jurisdictions, slander refers to a malicious, false,[2][not specific enough to verify] and defamatory spoken statement or report, while libel refers to any other form of communication such as written words or images.[3] Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism. Related to defamation is public disclosure of private facts, which arises where one person reveals information that is not of public concern, and the release of which would offend a reasonable person. "Unlike [with] libel, truth is not a defense for invasion of privacy."[4][not verified in body]
False light laws are "intended primarily to protect the plaintiff's mental or emotional well-being."[5] If a publication of information is false, then a tort of defamation might have occurred. If that communication is not technically false but is still misleading, then a tort of false light might have occurred.[5]
In most civil law jurisdictions, defamation is dealt with as a crime rather than a tort.[6]
A person who harms another's reputation may be referred to as a famacide, defamer, or slanderer. The Latin phrase famosus libellus means a libelous writing.
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http://www.searchenginepartner.com/First-page-placement/reverse-seo.html
This is who PMG has hired to "Protect" their "Good Name". They use illegal computer based attacks to disrupt legitimate business's and websites.
Google is just the best, ain't it?
So now I am bringing THEM into the light. Seems like this site is now secure compared to last month, so I feel confident that their attempts to disrupt will be inconsequential from here on out.
This pattern appeared with the batch of "Filing Services" shells created and rolled out in the final several months.
FTC knows that game, also, since they have shut down scam operations using over 50 names to try to hide.
The forensic accountant noted that they were operated to be technically insolvent, with all the money drained out of them, just transferring in amounts needed as expenses came due.
They were designed to throw away.
The various sites looked like they were just made for appearances, without anything set up to attract business clients or even allow people to pay. They typically had boilerplate generic "consumer debt advice", often the same on many of the sites, combined with vaguely implying that they somehow assisted their "clients" in collections, including "suing".
Probably just constructed to catch people who might search on the name or phone number, to try to convince them they were "legitimate".
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/10/rincon.shtm
In every call you made to a relative or employer, playing "process server" or "deputy", pretending you were "serving papers", you defamed whoever you claimed to be "suing". Deliberate third party disclosure of a fake, nonexistent "lawsuit" is nothing but defamation.