Demand for Payment for Unauthorized Yello Pages Listing
Complaint
Tony Cooper
Country: United States
Unuathorized listing in www.goyellowpages.com
No physical address listed on their web site
Reverse lookup of 866-967-8205 reveals a company www.gafachi.com
Demand for $574 for A. C. A. Recovery Inc., 38 E.Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, New Jersey 07540 Phone 800 356 3713 on behalf of www.goyellowpages.com submitted with no proof whatsoever of the contract details.
No physical address listed on their web site
Reverse lookup of 866-967-8205 reveals a company www.gafachi.com
Demand for $574 for A. C. A. Recovery Inc., 38 E.Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, New Jersey 07540 Phone 800 356 3713 on behalf of www.goyellowpages.com submitted with no proof whatsoever of the contract details.
Comments
If you are having problems with this entity, under any of its names, including harassing or deceptive sales or collection calls, or attempts by a debt collector, ACA Recovery, to collect on their bogus accounts, contact FTC.
You should also contact FTC regarding ACA Recovery's other "business directory" scam client, goyellowpages.
"FTC v. 6253547 CANADA, INC., No. 1:09-CV-01211 (N.D. Ohio)
Parties: 6253547 Canada, Inc., d/b/a Thompson Hill Publishing, The Official
Yellow Pages, and The Oyp Group
Opus Media, Inc.
Karl Garon
Claude E. Berthiaume
"
However, if they damaged your personal credit with fraudulently posted debts, even business ones, that would be your ticket to sue under FCRA, which allows recovery of damages and attorney fees.
You would first need to dispute the false reporting through the credit reporting agencies, and have them "verify" the erroneous information to establish liability under FCRA.
Since FCRA allows recovery of attorney fees, you may be able to find an attorney to take such a case on contingency.
If they tries to play the recording, make sure you ask them "So how do I know this digital recording is tempered with or not?"
Works for me because they simply hang up.
Thanks for the info.
Wally Haycock
Regionalyellowpagesonline (AKA Thompson Hill Publishing, and various other names), is a scam telemarketer operating out of Canada, and reported to be using some call center in Pakistan to conduct their scam. They were sued by FTC, which got a permanent injunction against them early this year, yet ACA Recovery is apparently still assisting them in their fraudulent scheme.
Contact FTC regarding whether their fraudulent collection activity represents a violation of the injunction.
Contact FTC regarding whether their fraudulent collection activity represents a violation of the court injunction.
Please help.
ACA Recovery is reported to be collecting on bogus "accounts" originating with at least two known fraudulent "business directory" telemarketers.
One of them, Regional Yellow Pages Online, AKA Thompson Hill Pulishing, and a number of other names, was sued by FTC, and they got a permanent injunction against them earlier in 2010, yet ACA Recovery is apparently still collecting on these fraudulent "accounts" despite the injunction.
There are also reports that the people behind the sued company have just moved and set up shop at a different location in Montreal, under a slightly different name.
There are reports on other sites that enough small businesses have contacted FTC regarding this scam that FTC has collected a large file on ACA Recovery and is looking into them.
Give them a hand.
"...
FTC v. 6253547 CANADA, INC., No. 1:09-CV-01211 (N.D. Ohio)
Parties: 6253547 Canada, Inc., d/b/a Thompson Hill Publishing, The Official
Yellow Pages, and The Oyp Group
Opus Media, Inc.
Karl Garon
Claude E. Berthiaume
..."
I understand reporting them which I will but has anything ever happened to any of you?
When I told them I was turning this over to my lawyer they hung up on me.
Since this scam is run by phone, with minimal mail contact and even that from the debt collector rather than the directory scammers themselves (to avoid creating evidence that could result in mail fraud charges?), their only "evidence" of an alleged "debt" appears to be the fraudulent telemarketing recordings they have been reported to play excerpts from.
In fraudulent telemarketing scams, recordings are typically used to threaten the victim, again by phone. Contrast this with normal business practice, where an agreement for advertising would be documented by a signed contract. Maybe they can't find an attorney willing to stoop so low as to used fraudulent recordings in court.
"When I told them I was turning this over to my lawyer they hung up on me."
Game over. No point in wasting any more time with you.
ACA Recovery appears to have evolved over the last decade from collecting on payday loans, using the common illegal "check fraud" script, to this stuff.
That is exactly what they do. Other complaints report ACA Recovery playing the fraudulently doctored "recordings" in their collection attempts.
There are numerous reports that they are doctoring or editing recordings of phone calls that actually asked only to "confirm your information".
Doctored, edited, or misrepresented "authorization recordings" have been commonly used in "business directory" scams for years, particularly with those run from fraudulent telemarketers in the Montreal area.