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
Whole lotta distancing going on as well. I think if these people are even semi literate, they'll get a good lawyer and contact the FTC with what they know.
Remember Ken Lay, and Enron?
That is why military doctrine on deception says "don't hide weapons in hospitals", or "don't ship them in ambulances", etc. Get caught doing it, and your adversary bombs your hospitals and shoots up your ambulances, even when they don't hide weapons. Whatever you touch with deception is a legitimate target.
You get caught using deception, no one believes you. You destroy your own credibility. Of course, you didn't plan on maintaining your credibility anyway, It was as disposable as your front names.
You wouldn't expect to play poker with your buddies and bluff on every round, but you do exactly that with every victim, and then expect them not to notice.
The court docs are indeed spectacular reading - the scope of the operation was mind-boggling. The poster herein attempting to defend them either hopes no one knows what really went on, or is a fool. It's clear the players - even the lowest level employees - are/were amoral animals.
I suspect the FTC went after the offices/LLC's for which they had the clearest and most convincing evidence at the time. I still think employees who worked at as-yet-unnamed branches or affiliates would do well to contact the FTC with what they know. The # for the FTC California branch on Wilshire Blvd in LA is 310-824-4300.
Use of deception points to deception throughout the whole operation.
No reason to believe the "debts" are any more real than the threats.
This isn't rocket science.
Just fraud and extortion.
No reason to look further.
You reap what you sow.
(Getoutofdebtguy found a bunch of the new ones through domain names.)
Might be a few others that showed up in complaints, but they might not have had LLCs or licenses, or may have been due to caller or consumer garbling.
I don't see the early PMG, HGG, ARM, and AF Group ones.
These look like mostly the "process server"/"filing firm" operations used for recent outgoing calls.