Looking for money for magazines
Complaint
TK
Country: United States
Carol Patterson? What a joke! I was ALMOST SCAMMED! She also claimed to be a lawyer from NY. She knew I filed bankruptcy (HOW?) and when I tried to speak to her she wouldn't let me get a word in edge wise. This was also for magazines w/ Allied Publishing. I called my bankruptcy lawyer and he advised me not to give her any money, But I had already given her my credit card #, had to cancel it so she wouldn't get the 450 she claimed that I owed. I didn't want to have to pay over 2500 so i decided that I would pay that amount. Thank god I was quick to cancel the card. I feel soo dumb!! She wouldn't forward any paper work to me or my attorney b/c she said it illegal. She wouldn't even speak to my attorney. She keeps calling me at work and I filed a complaint with the attorney general office. PLEASE DO NOT LET HER PUSH YOU AROUND and file a complaint ASAP!!! If you didn't get it in writing it's a scam!! She is very rude!! And you know what? She talks to herself. She pretends that another person is in the office, but she only talks to herself like she is important.
Comments
By those rules you will have a long line of people claiming you "owe" them. If they can't give you a number, then paying them won't pay of any particular "debt".
"THEY SAID I WAS BEING SUED"
Normal debt collectors don't open with "you're being sued". The whole idea of debt collection is to collect money without the expense of suing.
"A SUBPOENA WAS BEING ISSUED BUT I HAVE NOT RECV ANYTHING YET ... "
If you were being sued, you would be receiving a "summons", not a "subpoena". Don't expect to receive anything.
" THEY EVEN ASK FOR A MONEY GRAM "
Everything about them says "scam".
Other complaints.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-980-939-0922
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big guy
20 Apr 2010
This is an illegal collection agency using scare tactics to get you to call them about a bill. It may be a payday loan or Cash Call. They called me on my cell with a phishing # from Texas, then my work # with a California number. Believe me if you've committed fraud as they say, you're not getting a phone call. If you've committed fraud you're getting a visit from your local police dept. and district attorney.Caller: Unknown
Call Type: Debt Collector
Happened To Me
30 Apr 2010
A Tina McCoy just called me from 213-985-1863 and said she tried to get to me befor the local authorities did and said she was a special investigator calling and said to call 980-939-0922 I believe it to be a scam don't trust it!Caller: Unknown
Call Type: Debt Collector
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They are a bunch of con men. There is no "debt", no "payday loan", they aren't going to "sue", they can't "arrest" you, they aren't "investigators". All they are is lying criminals. They keep changing their names and phone numbers, and only take payment by moneygram, to avoid getting caught.
If they did sue you, they would have to serve you. If they don't sue you like they said, and they crawl from under the rock they live under so you can actually find them, you could sue them for threatening to sue, but since they are "fly-by-night", save your money and just ignore them.
Or report them to your Attorney General, and if they keep calling, tell they you are recording the call.
You know you didn't agree to anything. They are BSing you, and if they can lure or threaten you into "agreeing" to ANY subscription, they will trump up the amount they claim you owe, then threaten you to get it.
They are running a fraudulent "magazine subscription" telemarketing racket, following the same pattern as a number of other such rackets. See complaints against them below.
"They have my fiance on a recording agreeing to there scam. with him using words like yes and alright. Only four words from him were used in this recording. it is obviously tampered with."
The recordings are faked or altered. They were not created to use in court, whatever they claim or threaten. They were created to intimidate YOU, that is all.
Magazine subscription scams frequently use doctored, edited, or misrepresented recordings to intimidate consumers. The goal is to get you to cough up hundreds of dollars you don't owe at all.
Contact FTC, your state Attorney General, and the Florida Attorney General for assistance and to file telemarketing fraud complaints. If they keep calling, just tell them you have filed fraud complaints, and hang up.
Other complaints against them. Note that complaints against this number go back to October 2008. They have been running this same scam for several years.
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8002591649
Fraudulently claiming to be from "tmobile".
"LIZ
13 Jan 2009
i got a phone call from them the first time in december and they claimed they were from tmobile and that i had won a bunch of s**t... like magazines and watches and stuff like that. And i tried calling them back and there wasnt an answer so then i called tmobile and asked about it and they told me it was a scam and they had all my information and automatically withdrew a large amount of cash from my checking account and when i called another number they gave me it too was disconnected. i googled both numbers and they said they were calling from salt lake city utah. Today i called them and the guy that called me name is Brian and he said that they "just moved" from utah to Florida? and that i won even more magazines and he kept talking just long enough for me to save the number to my phone so i could call it back. they had a list of options to do when i called back and then they have a website address they said as well which is http://mysubscriptionservices.com/ its all a bunch of scamming f***heads!
here are a list of numbers that they call from
18002591649
12132917730
18004763053
Caller ID: 18002591649
Caller: Magazine Subscription
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Here is the "bait and switch", AFTER getting an innocuous order.
"c.pyles
4 Apr 2009
they called me to sell me magazines. they said they were out of florida. i just got a letter from them billing me for stuff i didn't order. $1,149.00 are they nuts!!!!!!
Caller: publishers guide
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Take the money... and then no magazines.
"Ana
19 May 2009
This is all a bunch of bullsh*t!!. I totally got scammed about $100.00 at this point. Was supposed to receive all these magazines which I paid $80.00 at first to start. Never received any. Then spoke with lying representative over the phone from this number 800-259-1649, told me they needed an additional fee of $19.95 per month to send the magazines. The total amount being a 1 year cost of $574.80. And still have not received a single magazine! :( Absolutely going to contact Better Business Bureau about this SCAM!:(]
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Note how cancelling during the "trial period" is blocked.
"GMAGMA51
19 Mar 2010
I ALSO RECIEVED CALLS FROM 18002591694. I ORDERED A FEW MAGAZINES AND THEY TOOK THE INITIAL 19.16 OUT MY ACCOUNT. I TRIED CALLING WITH-IN THE 10 DAY TRIAL PERIOD AND ONLY GOT RECORDINGS. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE. I'M STILL WAITING ON MY MAGAZINES. IS THERE A REAL NUMBER TO TALK TO A REAL PERSON???? SOMEONE NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE THESE PEOPLE. THEY SENT A LETTER WITH WHAT MY ORDER WAS AND GIVES YOU THIS 800 NUMBER....
Caller: PUBLISHERS GUIDE
Call Type: Telemarketer
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New aliases:
Jackie Waz (sp?)
G Louisos (dept. Manager)
John M.
Also someone made the comment that they seem to charge what they think they can get out of the particular "mark" given their situation. I believe this to be true.
He has been pretty busy in the Buffalo area lately, dealing with scamming debt collectors.
She even told my boss that I am in collections with them!
Cannot wait to stop these calls!
Class action lawsuit against this company (and all of their aliases) is starting to sound really good about now!
I have stopped paying them after a few months, and don't answer their calls anymore. I cant afford these magazines and actually have alerted each of the magazines that I am going through this with this company. Most of the customer service people have been very helpful, telling me to put a hold on the subscription and giving me contact numbers to call back (Allied Publishers, 716, and two others I cant remember at the moment).
I just want it all to stop.
I am also getting the threatening letters from a "2430, Inc." claiming to be a Corporate Asset Recovery company...(strange coincidence that 2430 is the street numbers for 7-1-6, hey?)
Contact the FTC and the New York Attorney General. In addition, file a complaint at www.ic3.gov
If they keep calling, tell them you have filed a fraud complaint with the New York Attorney General, and are recording the call.
http://local.yahoo.com/info-27765851-allied-publishers-service-buffalo
Third party disclosure of alleged debts violates FDCPA. You can sue them for it.
I have filed a complaint with the BBB of New York. They received a response back from G. Louisos (dept. Head) with false allegations, one of them is stating that I gave them my SS number. I am now wanting for the response back from BBB on my refusal on 716's response.
I don't know what else to do. I don't want to be paying out of pocket for magazines that I can get cheaper if I were to go right through the magazine itself.
He told the BBB that if I made my TIMELY PAYMENTS that we wouldn't have any issues. I do not receive TIMELY STATEMENTS from them. So how am I suppose to make TIMELY PAYMENTS..
oh, yeah... I faxed to 7-1-6 services to NOT call me on my phone or the office phone... they still did call.
Any suggestions???
I just got off the phone with them, I had told them that I faxed them that I do NOT want phone calls, and they are still calling. The person I spoke with said that there is nothing in my file stating that there was even a fax sent with that request.
Does anyone have any suggestions? The BBB of NewYork will not do anything, because these jokers lie to them to make the consumer to look like the bad person
There are exemployee reports that once they know you have filed an AG complaints they go away. They are looking for easy suckers.
https://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/0oIPFdBHvAAPvgjMR_jKyg
As you have found, if you feed the sharks, you just attract more sharks. You want to get rid of them, you have to stop feeding them.
Delivering a product a customer actually wants has nothing to do with it. The goal is to create the appearance of a "contract", and even use BAD service or unwanted magazines to extort payment for a "cancellation fee".
It's a shakedown racket, basically extortion, using fraudulent telemarketing and hiding behind "confusion" as a deceptive tactic.
There are similar scams operating out of Buffalo, the Atlanta area, Virginia Beach, south Florida, Colorado, and Montana, to name a few locations.
"Do they pass on your credit card number to different companies, or do they just change their own name when talking with you."
They could be doing either. This type of scam often uses multiple "company names", both to hide the scope of their operations from regulators, and to play "collection agency" as a threat to their victims. In addition, with fraudulent telemarketing, there is a market in customer
"sucker" lists to other boiler room operators.
These "sucker" lists sometimes illegally include bank account or credit card information, in which case the calls often start as attempts to get the victim to say something that can be misrepresented as an "authorization" without even complete disclosure of account information. Repeated harassing cold calls may also be an indication they already have account information.
This type of scam may use deceptively constructed "sweepstakes" pop-ups to entrap consumers, with hidden "terms" used to fraudulently claim you "subscribed". It sounds like they threatened you to get you to "agree" to their fraudulent "contract" by falsely claiming you had already "agreed" to it on some deceptive website.
Contact FTC and your state Attorney General.
Regarding this "Consumer Reading Services", what are their phone numbers, and what is their address?