Claiming I owe money for magazine subscriptions before 2011.

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Nikki
Country: United States
330-931-3886.Very unprofessional woman. Can't remember her name and although it's been longer than the amount of time she said I would receive an email from her, I've still not received it.  She said I owe money for old magazine subscriptions that she claims she has a voice recording of me agreeing to in 2011. Why not play it for me??
I mentioned to her that I'm aware of this scam bc I was called last year by a man claiming the same thing.
( I told her I had requested paperwork be mailed to me about it bc I didn't order magazines. A few weeks later I started receiving the magazines there's man has mentioned. I wrote RTS DID NOT ORDER on them and sent them back. I never received any paperwork, bills or otherwise.
Later I was informed by the local post office manager that his wife had the exact same thing happen to her.... )
The lady that called me this morning had no recollection of anyone speaking to me since 2011.... She tried to tell me that her company has a b+ rating with BBB. She said "I bet your electric company doesn't even have that good of a rating." I worked with a company who had an A rating on the BBB. I know all it takes is a good standing and
$50.00 for the seal. This "company" (PDS)  has only been around 2 Years apparently... Sorry that's not saying a lot.  Plus people in that company can get on and put positive ratings about themselves under false names...
Anyways throughout the phone call the lady made several "smart" comments to me about " those of us that actually pay our bills" etc and when asking me if I remembered the name of the man who called me last year I told her I didn't remember. She replied "[***], sometimes I can't remember conversations I had yesterday". I requested she mail me the paperwork. She said they don't mail anything only email. Doesn't sound very professional to me. Couldn't explain why this has not been on my credit nor why it's taken them YEARS to try to reach me. If I supposedly agreed to pay on a recording in 2011, why wait 6 years to inforce it?? That would also mean the supposed subscriptions would have had to been made prior to 2011... It was nearly 45 minutes ago she said I would receive the email in 15 minutes.... Still no email... Don't fall for it!!

Comments

  • +1
    MJG
    Emails mean NOTHING!!  They are NOT official notification of anything.  Give your state attorney gerbil as well as well as www.ftc.gov
  • 0
    Fake "subscription" scam..
    | 3 replies
    They've been running this scam for years. Part of their operation pitches deceptive "magazine subscriptions" which they later claim are a "non-cancelable verbal multi-year contract" that they want payment for front loaded, claiming "you agreed" to hundreds to over a thousand dollars of "magazines".  This is followed by harassment and threats, offering to "settle" for a payoff of several hundred dollars to go away.
    The "debt collection" side of the operation plays this scam, often even on victims who've never heard of them.  You pay ANYTHING to them, or even sound like you might, and they'll twist it into the scam.
    • +1
      Scams keep changing their names.. replies to Fake "subscription" scam..
      | 1 reply
      "Mediation" is common in shakedown scam names.  They want to appear like "a law firm" without saying it, to support the fiction that they "might sue".  Really means "suckers are supposed to just voluntarily hand over money cause we're so persuasive".
      It's a con job.
    • +1
      BBB report.. replies to Fake "subscription" scam..
      Read the complaints.  Same sh*t they tried to pull on you.  Some complaints report they got conned into a settlement payment in the past, even though they didn't think it was owed, but they just use that again later to demand more, claiming it "reset SOL".  Only "proof" is their own made up "worksheet".
      https://www.bbb.org/akron/business-reviews/me ... -and-complaints
  • +1
    Proper response..
    You know it's fake, not owed.  File fraud complaints with FTC, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, your state AG, and the Ohio AG.  Demand all communications BY US MAIL.  These scams like to stick to phone and email, since they're more deniable.  If they send deceptive stuff by US Mail, it can be used as evidence of mail fraud.  They like to play in the cracks between state jurisdictions, and avoid overreaching fed attention.

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