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Tee
Country: United States
Yes Hi, George.. I'm in MD & I was just contacted by a Todd Shaw ( supposed lawyer) and emailed some documents by a Tanya Jimenez? do that sound familiar to you? They were contacting saying that I have a pending lawsuit with M&T bank that they've tried to send mail to which they already had 3 of my addresses and Social number.  An account from 2009 and i only had 2 weeks to give them the settlement money as opposed to the $2200 i was facing in court cost. I was so immediately frazzled that i gave them a prepaid card number to be charged in the next 2 weeks.I looked up the website and the company I found as well doesn't do collections. And I found the address( 8200 Wilshire blvd, Suite 400, Beverly hills, CA 90211) was to a company named Paramount Asset Management  Corp.  I just need to know what to do to find out if this is another fraud ?

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    Derick
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    Same thing here in GA said I owed money from 2002. I said really good luck. Never saw any summons for court. I thought it was something when I got a call for a supposed to be processing officer from my county. But when I called a 1888 number and they transferred me to some bogus mike wells legal office and threaten to sue me for a 2002 debt I laughed and said good luck.
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      Paula replies to Derick
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      Same call from Michel Wells saying I owe from 2000 wants to settle for 1630$. I asked to resend documents, said he couldn't. Wanted me to give him card info over the phone. Sounded legit but fishy. Researched for 3 days and stumbled across this post. Thank you, I was considering sending the money via prepaid cause he told me I couldn't mail anything to them
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        CWG40 replies to Paula
        You can't mail anything to them because they do not want their physical address known.
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        Patsy replies to Paula
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        I received the same phone call from a Michael Wells  on 11-24-15 saying my husband owed over 2000 from 1997 and would settle for 820.00 but I had to use a debit card.  They had the last four digits of his social security #.  Said they were going to sue if not paid within 10 days. would not take a check.  had to be direct deposit, cashiers check or money order.
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          From 1997? replies to Patsy
          They must think you're stupid.  That's 18 YEARS ago.  SOL is expired in every state.  Of course they want payment in some form you can't reverse with a bank dispute.  They've broken FDCPA by threatening a "lawsuit" (when it's past SOL), and by overshadowing and evading FDCPA dispute and validation requirements.  FDCPA requires that they send a letter within 5 days notifying you of this alleged "debt" and of your right to dispute it.  Legitimate debt collectors will send that, scammers will pretend they did ("45 days ago", or some such BS).
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    Peach
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    I got a call from this person today saying that I was supposedly sever with court parper 48 days ago, and when I told him I never got any paper for a lawsite in 2008 which I have to pay 1,315.26 I was loan the money and I didn't use it for whatever reason they said I needed it for. So he said since u never got the court paper do I want just clear this up and don't have to worry about court. I know its not real but what do I do r say the next time they after businesses hours?. The thing that make me made is that he was looking into my credit report, and that made me mad. What can I do about these people going in my credit report?
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      Typical profile of a phone shakedown.. replies to Peach
      These [***] set themselves up as a "debt collector" and sign up for pulling credit reports or skip-tracing, which makes it real easy to use that information for intimidation.  Revealing that he has your credit report information is another such tactic.  It has nothing to do with whether this "debt" is real, but attempts to establish that he has "power" and "authority".
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    If there was really a judgement..
    he would just send you a copy.  The story about serving you with "court papers 48 days ago" is a prescripted construction to divert you away from demanding them.  Such fabrications are fraud indicators.
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    If you really want to pursue them..
    contact an attorney that handles consumer law cases such as FDCPA or FCRA.  You can find a consumer attorney in your state through www.naca.net
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