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
There have been a few posts consistent with "peers" being unhappy with the attention brought on this "industry".
SHADY company!!
IGNORE all communications with this company!!
The structure of the various "companies" is all a sham, set up to maintain this pretense that somehow they "sue", but "aren't a debt collector", and "don't make threats", but somehow the "process servers" make lots of threats, but who knows who those are, they are just "independent contractors".
Job applicants and ex-employees have reported the outgoing "process server" calls are coming from the same call centers that the return numbers they leave ring back to.
The "process server" callers aren't process servers, deputies, court clerks, or any other title they adopt. They aren't calling from "your county courthouse", about this "lawsuit" that is just about to go to court, but you can call back and settle if you do so right away! Othersiwe, well, "if you don't call back in "3 hours" you are going to be arrested"! And did I tell you that "there is a bench warrant out for your arrest"!
They set up the fake, lying "process servers" for no other purpose than to allow them to call and threaten fake "lawsuits" by calling relatives, pretending to be trying to "serve papers". Their victims then call back in a panic about this "lawsuit" fearing threats of "arrest" on some debt that either sounds vaguely familiar or may not even be recognized at all. They reach the experienced closers, who use deceptive threats to con them out of "settlements".
BBB-LA should get its act together, and just look up all the "Filing Services" that are using the same Corona UPS Store mail drops and are already in their system collecting the same types of complaints.
Or they can just look back in this thread, around page 12. Most of the Corona front names have been identified from 800notes.com complaints showing common MO and connection to the greater Corona area.
http://www.bbb.org/us/find-business-reviews/name/filing+service/Corona-CA/
They have either called and made threats over some "account" the victim claims they never had, or even tried to collect on an account with a creditor the victim knows they have paid off, or have even verified with the original creditor as unowed or unsold.
You get caught cheating, you have pretty much trashed any assumption of credibility.
The use of illegal threats and deception in place of compliance with FDCPA notification and validation requirements points to fraud.
Reports they were raided Oct. 14, 2011, are probably accurate.
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/5:2011cv01623/514482/
"Federal Trade Commission v. Rincon Management Services LLC et al
Plaintiff: Federal Trade Commission
Defendants: Jason R Begley, City Investment Services LLC, Global Filing Services LLC, Wayne W Lunsford, National Filing Services LLC, Pacific Management Recovery LLC, Prime West Management Recovery LLC, Rincon Management Services LLC and Union Management Services LLC
Case Number: 5:2011cv01623
Filed: October 11, 2011
Court: California Central District Court
Presiding Judge: Virginia A. Phillips
Referring Judge: Sheri Pym
Nature of Suit: Other - Other
..."
Must not have raided all their sites.
Tracking future reports of credit inquiries will disclose how much of the group is still in operation, and whether Experian or Equifax take any action to cut them off.
If most or all of the assets are "ill-gotten gain", obtained through illegal deception and threats for faked "debt", this will be a mess to equitably sort out.
Where is the IRS in the line for assets, if payroll taxes were never collected due to deliberate misclassification of "independent contractors", but any "wages" paid were "commissions" on fraudulent collection anyway?
Where do the victims, the source of the "assets" in the first place, stand in line?
She is Jason's Begleys sister in law.
I asked her if there had been any type of raid or audit on their business
in the last couple of says.
She said that Heavy Hitters is still in business and there hasn't been any raid or anything else.
In fact she said she had to get up to get ready for work shortly.
Contact FTC. They need to add additional locations and LLCs to the lawsuit.
If they wouldn't do that, sounds like they got nothing.