I received calls that I owe this company $789.00 for advertising that "they have my voice recorded accepting the offer", which I never did it and never talked to the company.
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betty
A SCAM
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tj
This is a common fraudulent "business directory" scam.
Some of them are run from fraudulent telemarketing call centers in or near Montreal Canada, and some use overseas call centers in India or Pakistan.
The "recordings" cannot be trusted, as they routinely doctor, fabricate, edit, or misrepresent phone recordings to attempt to intimidate small businesses. They are basically running a phone extortion racket, often in concert with a New Jersey debt collector.
They are pretty well known. FTC has sued several, and in particular, has a permanent injustion against one the Canadian fraud centers, a client of the NY debt collector, but the fraud continues. They just keep changing their names.
File fraud complaints with FTC, your state Attorney General, and at www.ic3.gov
If you receive a fraudulent invoice, file a mail fraud complaint with the U.S. Postal Inspector.
If contacted by the NJ debt collector, file fraud complaints with all of the above, and include a fraud complaint to the New Jersey Attorney General.
If they keep calling, ignore their threats, and just tell them you have filed fraud complaints with the authorities.
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School
I received the same bill, and when I finally was able to reach someone at the number provided I had it taken care of. They have a recording of me, but not of me authorizing anything. All they have me saying on the recording is that I verified our mailing address.
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rod
They tried to scam me also !!
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BSSC
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They tried the same thing with us. Told us we owed $789 and if I took care of it today it would only be $749 not charging me for any interest. I told them I was put on the no call list last year in December and paid them $499 then. They said I had to have the no call verification number, I gave them the conformation number I got last year, they said it wasn't the right number and pushed hard for me to sign some fax authorizing the $749. Come to find out that they even had my credit card number. WHAT A SCAM. If i did this kind of buisness I wouldn't be in buisness and neither should they. I think some district attorney should get them SHUT DOWN.
Did you pay them last year with that credit card number, or are they illegally buying credit card information?
File a fraud complaint with FTC.
Also immediately contact your bank to block the card number. Once any scammer has it, you can expect repeated harassing calls using any excuse to try to get you to say something they can later claim was your "authorization" for their fraudulent charges, or even just fraudulent charges showing up whenever they want some money, without any attempt at getting "authorization".
You are dealing with crooks.
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Tony
These people have been threating me and bugging me for several month. I do not recall authorizing a listing with them. We have found that listing on the internet have not been beneficial to us. They are still calling and I am still ignoring.
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Michele
I just received a fraudulent bill from them for $789.99. However, I knew it was a scam right away because within the past month I have been contacted by two others, the so-called American Business Index Online, and the so-called General Yellow Pages. Their strategy is to get you into a prolonged conversation in which they make you repeat several times that you are the manager (or whatever), the name of the business, address etc. The last contact one of them made, I told them I had reported them to the BBB, the state white collar crimes commission, and the Department of State Consumer Protection agency. If they send something through the mail, report them to the USPS Mail Fraud Complaint department.
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Shelz
The same thing happened to me in my business and the collector called and said we could settle and that would close the account then the same ma called my husband and said he was collecting for another company. We are now taking this to the state attorneys office and starting a class action suit against them hopefully this will send a message and please no matter how much annoying paper work there is to this, don't give up! we will get them!
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Some of them are run from fraudulent telemarketing call centers in or near Montreal Canada, and some use overseas call centers in India or Pakistan.
The "recordings" cannot be trusted, as they routinely doctor, fabricate, edit, or misrepresent phone recordings to attempt to intimidate small businesses. They are basically running a phone extortion racket, often in concert with a New Jersey debt collector.
They are pretty well known. FTC has sued several, and in particular, has a permanent injustion against one the Canadian fraud centers, a client of the NY debt collector, but the fraud continues. They just keep changing their names.
File fraud complaints with FTC, your state Attorney General, and at www.ic3.gov
If you receive a fraudulent invoice, file a mail fraud complaint with the U.S. Postal Inspector.
If contacted by the NJ debt collector, file fraud complaints with all of the above, and include a fraud complaint to the New Jersey Attorney General.
If they keep calling, ignore their threats, and just tell them you have filed fraud complaints with the authorities.
File a fraud complaint with FTC.
Also immediately contact your bank to block the card number. Once any scammer has it, you can expect repeated harassing calls using any excuse to try to get you to say something they can later claim was your "authorization" for their fraudulent charges, or even just fraudulent charges showing up whenever they want some money, without any attempt at getting "authorization".
You are dealing with crooks.