312-893-4867

Started getting calls last week from a Mr. Adams at this number also a call from a Lisa Grant of Arnold Scott Harris, law firm @ 312-604-7192. The calls from Adams use something to diguise the caller's voice. According to the prefix the calls are from Chicago. They want forwarding of their messages for a family member. QUESTION--why are we being hounded all of a sudden?

Do you have outstanding traffic/parking tickets??

These people started calling us, too.  Don't assume they really have something on your relative, just because they know the name.  They can get it any number of ways.
In our case, they don't know our real names. THey're attempting to contact a made-up name that we use in fun on a particluar document.  Looks like they're bogus.  
As well, I collected the ph #s they say to call...and also the caller IDs that correspond with the time of their threatening voicemails...and searched them on bing.com.  The blogs about these #s invariably refer to people getting harassed for names that aren't connected with them, and for charges they don't owe.  Apparently, LOoASH trumps up charges for tolls, parking tickets, red-light violations.  
Since we have a very clean record, we're doubly sure they're lying scum.  JIC, we checked Illinois Tollway Authority records and City of Chicago records.  More confirmation that Law Offices of ASH are definitely lying scum..because there's nothing there, just as we knew.
Several years ago, another firm tried this.  I searched online about them, too.  Turned out they'd been sued by several Attorneys General from several states, with judgements entered against them.  Yet they were still at it.  So must be giving a kickback to politicians to let them keep up their shady work.

Actually, they are a legit law firm. If you go to any DMV in Chicago, there is a desk there with employees of ASH. They handle payment plans for the Chicago Department of Revenue. For example, if you rack up a bunch of parking tickets and you cannot pay it all off at once, you set up a payment plan so that the city does not boot or tow your car. The law office buys your tickets from the city, and you just pay the law office. Like most places that handle debt collection, if they have a certain phone number associated with a name, I have no doubt that they will call incessantly even if the number is wrong. But being obnoxious is not the same thing as being lying scam artists.

Got a an automated call from these people at 312-893-4867 and ask fro Ms. Sims from Law offices of Arnold something.  Right off the bat I believe they bought parking tickets that were uncollectable by the city of Chicago and they're trying to collect for their firm. Beware sneaky weasel lawyers!!!

I received a couple time of message from this number. Luckly I checked with internet.

Just got an automated call from these guys mispronouncing my name and asking me to call Mr. "Smith". Not aware of any parking tickets in Chicago. Even I had an old ticket  I would not be giving anyone any personal information over the phone.

Received a message stating to call a Mr. Smith.  If they are trying to collect on old parking tickets, it's a joke to me.  I have not even worked in or been in the city in over 10 years.  Legit or not, I am not going to waste my time calling them.

Should they be reported to the state attorney general?  In my case, they're calling across state lines.

LOL at these guys. I just received a message from these clowns telling me to please call "Mr. Scott" ASAP.  Yeah, I'll get right on that.

Options, as I see them, are three:

1. Call "Mr. Scott" back pretending to be "Captain Kirk" and tell him we need more power.
2. Answer the next time they call so I can inquire as to what prestigious law school one must attend to chase down 10-15 year old parking tickets (I haven't lived in Chicago since 2000 and probably didn't get a parking ticket after 1998).
3. Ignore them entirely.

The right answer is 3, though 2 and 1, in that order, might be worth the entertainment factor.

Dude stop calling looking for someone I don't know and get the right number

They have been calling my mother's house for more than one year asking for me. I haven't lived with her in over a decade. Nice try, morons! Yes, it was a Mr. Scott at 312-893-4867.

We got a letter in the mail and a phone calls from these people regarding a parking ticket we got in the city of Chicago over 15 years ago that we contested back then.  How do we get them to leave us alone?  Do we have any leverage against them?

The people on the above phone number had harrassed my phone number for a year now!!!!!!!!!!!  I have called them back to tell them they have the wrong number but they continue to call.  Please help!  
They are asking CURTIS MOORE TO RETURN THEIR CALL.  Not only this number but another with the same firm.  The ID on my phone says it is A Harris PC.  
"We have called several times to reach Curtis Moore. And we have not recieved a return phone call.  This is a important matter for Curtis Moore. Please deliver this message asap.  Have curtis moore. call mr scott at 312-423-7468.  (You can insert the above number also as messages are from both!) Thank you. Goodbye."
Would you please see what you can to do stop these calls!!!????

This site has no power or ability to stop callers from calling you or anyone else. It is simply an information exchange site with user supplied information on unknown callers. If this is reputable company, you should be able to call them back and tell them you do not know any Curtis Moore and to please remove your number from his file. You can also ask for their mailing address. Then send them a "cease and desist" letter US Mail, Certified, Return Receipt.  That should stop the calls. If not, you can take legal action against them for $1000 for every call you get after they have received your cease and desist letter.

A search on Arnold S Harris Law Firm brings up the following from the Chicago BBB:

THIS BUSINESS IS NOT BBB ACCREDITED

Arnold Scott Harris, P.C.
Phone: (312) 759-5400
Fax: (312) 759-5411
111 W. Jackson Blvd., Ste 600, Chicago, IL 60604
http://harriscollect.com/

Another site confirms this is the firm Cook County has contracted to collect on old tickets etc.

This is a Call from Arnold Scott Harris P.C. Regarding parking tickets you or someone with your last name has acquired in city of Chicago I think prior to 1988 While you or the person with the same last name might have even paid such ticket, and even though, through erroneous and con processes, your such info has been improperly updated and reflect an unpaid ticket, these people are trying to collect on such parking ticket. These are voided requests and the intimidators rely on audience harassment to get them to pay something they do not even owe.

their advertised address is 111 west jackson blvd in chicago and their direct line is 312-759-5400

They cannot by law harass you by phone. I am pretty sure even if you have not paid a ticket or such, it has passed all legal time lines and even though you might technically owe on that ticket , its probably a thing of the past . Contact them at their land line, provide them with your name and number, indicate to them whatever your proper knowledge and explanation about any such ticket is and ask them to cease and desist their harassing functionality through Phone System.

calling, leaving messages with no name, parking and traffic fines. I own no car. this is [***]. waste your time calling them, they do NOTHING. don't know who or why they called. we need a class action suit to [***] these pigs down. Sue th DMV, sue th city of Chicago, sue ths mayor. this is illegal.

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A Missouri jury ordered a debt buyer to pay nearly $83 million to a Kansas City woman it pursued for a $1,000 credit card bill she didn’t owe, NPR affiliate KCUR reports. The jury found Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC guilty of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, for which it will pay $250,000 in damages, as well as maliciously prosecuting the woman, Maria Guadalupe Mejia, over the debt that did not belong to her. For the malicious prosecution, the jury awarded Mejia $82,990,000 in punitive damages.
PRA Group Inc., which owns Portfolio Recovery Associates, sent an email statement to Credit.com:
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Portfolio Recovery, one of the nation’s largest debt buyers, sued Mejia in February 2013 over the credit card debt, though the actual debtor turned out to be a man in Kansas City, Kansas, with a name similar to Mejia’s. The company pursued Mejia for the debt for 15 months after she first received notice of the lawsuit. In a written statement to KCUR, Mejia said, “The lawsuit terrified me.”
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These guys r idiots  people's families in her [***] and then they're not the ones that have the tickets call the right people you idiots at this law office

Stop robo calling my land line phone asking for a fake person with my last name regarding a legal matter.  Why does Chicago cook county even allow this firm to continue to harrass law abiding citizens of Chicago by contracting their services.
 Nevertheless if the City prefers to continue its relatioship for whatever the reason then the City should provide and require accurate and verifiable information
to this collection agency.