NOT A SCAM
Complaint
Lisa V
Country: United States
Lisa V
Fullerton,CA
PAY THE INVOICE OR YOU WILL REGRET IT LIKE ME.
Thanks to all these posts, I took the advice of many people on here and it back-fired.
My company refused to pay the invoice that I authorized. The account was sold to a collection agency. The new total was TRIPLED!!!! I refused to pay. My credit score in December 2011 was 782. It now registers at 362!!! My husband is furious with me as we were getting ready to buy our first home. I got papers from the collection agency for small claims court. I called them because I don’t want to go to court. They offered to settle before court for 1257.62 immediately. I took it! I should have just paid the $600. After all, I did authorize it and they did advertise the business on the internet.
Fullerton,CA
PAY THE INVOICE OR YOU WILL REGRET IT LIKE ME.
Thanks to all these posts, I took the advice of many people on here and it back-fired.
My company refused to pay the invoice that I authorized. The account was sold to a collection agency. The new total was TRIPLED!!!! I refused to pay. My credit score in December 2011 was 782. It now registers at 362!!! My husband is furious with me as we were getting ready to buy our first home. I got papers from the collection agency for small claims court. I called them because I don’t want to go to court. They offered to settle before court for 1257.62 immediately. I took it! I should have just paid the $600. After all, I did authorize it and they did advertise the business on the internet.
Comments
1) On the one hand, you say you refused to pay, then you say you "did authorize it".
All other complaints report "authorizations" are obtained by deceptive calls and doctored recordings.
2) Your post is a summary of what the perpetrator of this scam would want us all to believe.
3) You play up embarassment and your husband supposedly furious with you.
4) You play up the amount this bogus bill has supposedly jumped to, supposedly it somehow "tripled" just because it was sold to a collection agency.
5) You play up the usual ridiculous trumped up "bill", with the "discounted" settlement, just like the usual fraudulent collection cons..
6) You play up a ridiculous drop from a high FICO to an extremely low FICO, probably beyond what any single collection account could even produce.
7) Now, supposedly you were sued in small claims court, with no actual documentation, just a doctored "recording", and in California, which requires prior 2 party approval for recording of calls, and you "settled" and supposedly thought yourself "lucky".
That's a score of "+7" on the deception and manipulation index.
Every "detail" you mention is aimed at manipulating the victims of this scam, yet each one also contains an element suggesting implausibility. The total pattern suggests fictional fabrication, for it's effect.
Your English is good, suggesting you are not one of the India or Pakistani "Public" employees.
Best guess: You are with the "collection agency to the scams".
Nice try, shill.
You know what you want people to believe, so you cram it all into your post.
You're just a big liar, shill.
You can read more about ACH here:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-st ... hofIntelNew.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-st ... ysis/art11.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-st ... ysis/art14.html
https://complaintwire.org/complaint/DS7QCykBL ... 895683131857774
http://www.scambook.com/report/view/117097/PUBLIC-YELLOW-PAGE-False-Advertising-for-1257.62-on-05-22-2012
Mr. Reid stated, "You received an Invoice, why didn't you call to cancel the ad?" and I responded that I had NOT received an Invoice. He badgered me, and said, "It came to your address", and I responded, "Again, I didn't receive an 'Invoice' ", and suggested he should have asked for a signature.
I stated several times, "This is all very strange; our secretary would never have authorized such a transaction". As proof, he said he had a taped recording of the conversation between his business representative and our employee, who according to our payroll, was not present on March 9. Mr. Reid played the recording, but the conversation exchange I heard did NOT sound like the employee who's name appeared on the bill. In fact, the voice sounds like the "employee" could be a man or woman, as the voice was murmuring and very deep. When I heard the exchange of words between the two parties, the name they gave as our place of business is the name of a business two blocks away. I suggested to Mr. Reid that he phone the other office and ask for payment, since the ad directly benefits that office, not ours.
I have phoned the BBB in Mr. Reid's town, and have since learned that they have had over 1000 complaints issued against Online Public Yellowpages. I am shocked that Mr. Reid believes he is entitled to payment from our office when our business name does not even appear in his online ad.
This company uses deceptive practices, trying to entrap businesses and intimidate them into paying. In the old days, we had to watch out for "toner bandits" and "head rest paper bandits". Now in 2012, we apparently have to be concerned with online ad bandits as well. This company appears on multiple "SCAM" lists; every legitimate business owner should keep a keen eye out for this guy and Online Public Yellowpages.
I asked Mr. Reid for the name of the attorney representing "Online Public Yellowpages" so that our attorney could phone him directly, and he said, "Have your attorney call ME", and so I shall.
Mrs. O'Neal
They lie a lot, and make lots of threats, but they can't do anything else.
The shill post above is the only post "reporting" they supposedly "sued".