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.
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You can find the many aliases being reported across all the 800notes threads.
LMMFAO.
Long Live ComplaintWire!
Viva La Revolucion!
You should see a story sometime next week.
"Alfalfa" and others noted the shills showing up within several days, back in 2009. Whenever a new shill posted, it was tagged within a day or two. The initial shills were easy to spot, pretty lame really, and even as some became more subtle, they were easy to spot also since people were already looking for shills.
The more the shills posted on each thread, trying to fool their intended victims, the more they made the threads visible, and the more clear it became that the calls involved deliberate attempts at deception. The more victims posted countering complaints or tracing information, the more they made the similarities across all the names and phone numbers visible.
They actually tied all the front names together by the common MO clearly visible across the threads, and even made it possible to find related threads by Googling based on MO or common parts of front company names.
http://cdn.getoutofdebt.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/031113248103.pdf
My company is LEGIT. These monkeys shoulda stopped doing things this way a LONG time ago. Now they are going to be forever tied to this scam and have to live their life knowing that anyone can type in their names and see this. FOREVER. Love me them internet's....
S H I L L
The next level consists of John Cooke and the other office managers. Yeah, $30,000 a month sounds pretty good when you're not a greedy pig. I'd be willing to bet that their cash is running out fast. Then there's the fact that they were being paid through the scam company's bank accounts. They made it so easily traceable, which will probably make this of great interest to the IRS. They will lose everything that they ever made with this scam and more.
The 'closers' may have made decent money, but again, these people are idiots. Since they had become accustomed to living the good life, they probably bought their fair share of electronics, fancy toys, rented apartments and purchased homes that were normally outside of their income level. When the bill man comes a' knocking' they'll be scurrying back to the gutter. Oh, and they'll be paying back taxes, too. Tax evasion is a federal offense, but they'll probably only target John and the other high rollers.
It would be great to see every last one of them go to prison, however, seeing them in financial ruin would be sweet justice at this point. It would take them a lifetime to pay off the fines and penalties assigned to them, which means they'll always be broke - broker than they were when they got involved in this scam.