Harassing phones call to employees
Complaint
Human Resources
Country: United States
Recently our company has been receiving threatening phone calls from the company identifying themselves as Dallas County Sheriff office. They would call and state the employee needed to be serve with legal documents or arrest warrant has been issued due to alleged crime. We were asked what is our protocol on serving the documents and someone from the sheriff dept will be assisting.
After we refused to offer any information on the employees or allow the employees to be serve at work the call went really bad and nasty. The threats started... they will come anyway without our consent. After several attempt to get us to cooperate by using their threatening tactics and using Judicial system finally they would hang up and try calling to a different location, not knowing they would end up with me!!!!! Good Luck VOXEE INC, we are on to you and if you continue to harass us we will move forward with a harassment suit. We have you name and number recorded call for quality purposes.... Not legal!
After we refused to offer any information on the employees or allow the employees to be serve at work the call went really bad and nasty. The threats started... they will come anyway without our consent. After several attempt to get us to cooperate by using their threatening tactics and using Judicial system finally they would hang up and try calling to a different location, not knowing they would end up with me!!!!! Good Luck VOXEE INC, we are on to you and if you continue to harass us we will move forward with a harassment suit. We have you name and number recorded call for quality purposes.... Not legal!
Comments
Third party debt collection...what a scam. I've said this several times before but, I don't care, I'll say it again: The only good debt collector is an out of business one.
Not happening in this lifetime.
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/9729413536
Your complaint is consistent with a fraudulent "debt collection" shakedown racket.
Similar fraudulent threatening scripts were recovered in FTC's raids on the Corona Scam in 2011.
Similar "process server" or officer impersonation tactics are used by most of these scams.
This profile is consistent with a US based scam debt collector, unless they have Indian accents.
Most of these scams are located in the Buffalo area, Florida, or southern California, but there are also several others in other parts of the country. Typically, they attempt to reveal as little about their identities and location as possible, for obvious reasons.
They are trying to extort one of your employees, using the implied threat of some fake "lawsuit" or possible "arrest and prosecution for fraud", or embarassment in front of coworkers or employer. Highly illegal, violating federal FDCPA and state debt collection laws, but in this case it's also a felony to impersonate law enforcement.
The use of illegal collection tactics implies there is something "uncollectable" about any alleged "debt", maybe really old and out of statute, maybe it was already paid or discharged in bankruptcy, maybe an illegal payday loan from an unlicensed lenderat usurous rates, maybe a faked "loan" by a fraudulent overseas "lender", maybe even no connection to the targetted victim, maybe totally fake and they simply found on Facebook that John Doe works for Spacely Sprockets.
Do exactly what they tried to scare you away from: Contact the FBI and the Sheriff's Department to report a phone extortion attempt with impersonation of a law enforcement officer. They can track back through the phone company to the caller if they want to.
Your phone number has littel trail yet, but let's look at Voxee:
Numerous complaints back to March 2011.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-720-306-5009
http://youcantcall.us/VOXEE++INC
https://complaintwire.org/complaint/ootLMs-3WQY/united
"855-441-6194"
"954-949-6067"
Doin the old "payday loan = bad check fraud" routine, and they can't even call the right number.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-954-949-6067
"Idiots called an attorney's office saying i had charges againts me, really, that's like calling a doctor's office to tell the doctor that he should get a check-up. Losers
Caller: Voxee,Inc
Call Type: Debt Collector
..."
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-441-6194
"United"
"United Pre-litigation Firm" (typical shakedown scam name)
Their multiple numbers, with a long history of complaints, suggests they are using VoIP phone service, common with both call centers and scammers trying to hide their identities.
Here is "Voxee Enterprise Services" in Tempe AZ.
Might be their VoIP telecom, if they didn't bother to change their caller id settings.
Don't look very responsive (BBB rated "F"), but it would be easy for a Sheriff's detective to give them a call, just to ask who's behind the phone number. Might get a business name and address (maybe this "United Pre-litigation").
Might be this "United Prelitigation out of Georgia".
Looks like they collect on illegal payday loans, which may explain the illegal collection tactics.https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-353-4880
I been reading conmplaint about them. I cannot believe they have moron like these among us. If there are so many complaint, why are they still exist?
Can someone tell me how to deal with them please? They are getting on my nerve.
This question for Human Resources.
Are they still Harasing your employee? If So? How did you handle these idiot?