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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At the end he tells the tech guy:
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I will be running dba off of current corps with new addy and numbers. Hopefully this will work in keeping all offices seperate. ill put this into play nov 1st. You should be able to just change name in simple collect. No need to add another. (hopefully)
These are the other two NEW offices that will need to be added. I will get you info for the cebyond t1 order next week.
18773383442 Group asset management 5198 Arlington ave Ste 345 riverside ca 92504
18773403409 The law offices of St.Amant and associates. 30520 rancho california rd ste 107-60 temecula ca 92591
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SimpleCollect was the software program they were using.
Doesn't a law firm, or any business claiming they are a "law firm", or any business representing that they offer legal services, like "suing" for "clients", have to be owned and controlled by a licensed attorney?
So now that this DBA is apparently active again, since the Receiver took control of the old Corona corporations, who now has control of this DBA?
Really, since the DBA is still alive, probably for a few more months, what's to stop any Corona insider who knows about it from adopting it as an already existing alias, using its apparent "existence" to aid the pretense of "legitimacy".
They can play "law firm" without even getting caught registering the DBA.
"Group Asset Management is a resource management company, committed to and specializing in recovering assets for enterprise class business and investors through a national attorney network"
Website link goes to a reachlocal.com page, just like the "stamant" site.
Site is just dummied up.
http://groupassetmanagement.reachlocal.com/
(877) 338-3442
Google finds no complaints under the number yet.
Several of the docs for Portfolio Investment Financial Inc. were filed and stamped May 2010 by the California Secretary of state. The company's purpose is listed as a debt buyer and the agent for service of process? None other than Samuel Lockhart at 1325 Spruce Street Suite 300 Riverside CA. So apparently Mr. Lockhart has been associated with them since at least May 2010.
On Lunsford's Spiff Money LLC - Amber Lunsford is a signatory.
On Begley's JBEG LLC - Shontel Begley is a signatory.
If you have control over how money is paid out, you can have personal liability if withheld taxes aren't paid.
They might have actually survived longer if they had not been so busy proliferating aliases, and actually had to respond to more lawsuits or regulation earlier.
Catastrophe theory in action.
But it doesn't sound like this old OOS and non-reportable "debt", if it is even that, is economically collectable by any business model that doesn't use illegal threats and deception. I have to assume their assessment of that is accurate, since that is all they set up to do with it.
So we have apparently a supposedly "legitimate" market in debt so bad it has no real value unless you are a thug. The only customers buying such "debt" are those already planning on violating laws and getting away with it.
Just found this. They called me saying i will be served unless i settle with
Just found this. They called me saying i will be served unless i settle with
They can't go after everyone doing this, but what message do they want to send to make their efforts most effective?
How do they make clear that just making up a lot of names and setting up lots of LLCs won't get you off?
Plenty of scams get shut down, just taking away all their toys to pay back some of the losses to the public, with just a promise to never do it again for the rest of their lives.
There are several public policy and law enforcement issues here:
1) Deliberate predatory targetting of senior citizens through the "call relatives first" tactic, including reports of defrauding the relative when the oportunity presented itself.
2) Impersonating of law enforcement and court or county officials, to make the threats more effective ("false color of authority").
Take a look at the NY AG prosecution of Boyland's callers. They were pretending to be "Maryland police detectives".