515-200-7795

Some [***] called me and said my attorney needed to contact me about pending litigation...blah blah blah
Old scam...different number and voice...YOU CANNOT call and threaten people with litigation...these scammers crack me up, but since I hadn't seen this particular # come up I decided to share this scumbag number with folks so they know to look out, and hopefully tell these scumbags to F... Off

Got calls and even voice messages, saying or more threating that I have to pay for some debt I don't have. And gave me 24 hours to resolve it by paying an off court settlement or going to court.

Called saying I owed over 900 dollars and that it had to be paid or I would be arrested

Called and tried to say the same thing about a mediation service. Well I called the des moines police and the FBI with the number and the persons name in the mailbox. I contacted my phone provider and am currently having then trace the number. So you piece of [***] doing this scam. I'm coming after you...and if I find u I will sue u. So be nervous when someone knocks on ur door. It might be the des Moines police or the FBI.

What you need to do is dial *67 before you dial their number and just flood their system. I could hear them calling other people in The background.  I've been doing it for an hour. Its fun.

A lot of posters on 800notes complain they get many calls from scammers.
A few posters state they get hardly any.
Why the difference?  Here are possible reasons.

Click on the associated "Info" line under any statement to read why NOT to use that method.

Answering the phone when the caller's number is unfamiliar.    

Pressing a number "to be taken off the list"

Returning the call.    

Arguing with the caller:

Blowing a horn or whistle into the phone:

Forwarding the call to a government office.

Giving or forwarding the supposed scammer's phone number to other scammers.

Getting a new phone number

Giving up your landline (if you have a landline)

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What you SHOULD do:
If you are disturbed by frequent calls from scammers / spammers. obtain a call blocker app, device, phone, or service.  Google is your friend.  Remember, the Do Not Call list is designed to prevent calls from legitimate, registered telemarketers, but scammers / spammers are not legitimate telemarketers, do not register, and they ignore the DNCL or your requests!


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Please reply to this post, to let us know you read it, or have taken suitable actions to protect yourself.

I received a call for my husband, spoke to someone calling themselves "Beverly Goodman" with mediation services and she said her business name was "legal services" she would not give me a business address and said that she wouldn't work for a company that would allow her to give out that information.  She said that my husband owed a $400 loan to direct cash services under the possible names of several online payday loan lenders (cash direct express, payday advance, speedy cash...) she knew our address, where my husband worked and the name of the bank that I used in 2011 when she said he took out the loan.  She said that he could call them in 24 hours or this would be sent to "the state of Texas" (where we live) and we could "deal with them".    When I challenged that she hung up on me.

Of course she wouldn't work for an outfit that gave their address out.  Because it would be easy for law enforcement to come and arrest her for extortion.

Criminals masquerading as debt collectors attempt to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged (they use the bad check or hot check claim a lot) and go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished without actually being sued or going to court, be sued, and a variety of other variations on this, all for an alleged or nonexistent debt.  One of the tricks they use is to call your family, friends, neighbors and/or places of employment (past or present or both) to create panic and embarrassment so that their intended victim calls them and they can scare that person into paying their extortion money.  They will use the words “Mediator”, “Arbitrator”, or “Law Office” to make you believe that they are something other than a debt collector want-a-be and that they don’t have to follow Federal and State collection laws.  They do have to follow those laws, but they won’t.  They also use the “process server” ruse who calls and claims he is going to serve you, but then says you could avoid it by calling another number where they will ask for money to “make it go away” (this is actually the same place, they work in teams, one pretending to be the server, and the other usually pretends to be a lawyer).  Process servers do not ever call ahead so that you can dodge them.  Process servers get paid to serve papers, nothing else.

Read up on your rights here and also make a complaint at this government site:  http://www.consumerfinance.gov/

Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices:   https://800notes.com/faq/attorney-general

Keeps calling me and threatining that if I don't return their call or have my attorney contact them, they will take legal action against me.  I have blocked them going forward but want someone to investigate these scammers and shut them down!

Legal Services Received a call from a Melissa Williams stating to have my attorney return her call by end of business day are requesting money stated if not paid then arrest would be issued.

Making a threat of arrest is illegal - and will NOT happen (even if you did owe money)!  Read BigA's post above yours & then give your state attorney general a call.

Well done.  Totally agree!

Report them:

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection (Threatening civil proceedings with no intent to follow through, or threatening criminal process in order to collect a civil debt is a  violation of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.)  The same goes for endless telephone harassment

Also contact your local attorney general

If they continue to bother you,  and you know you do not owe any money, tell them that you know this is  a debt scam and that you are making a complaint to the police for extortion.  Once you get a copy of the police report and they call you again , just read out the  file number and the name of the PD or Sheriff’s office involved.   Tell them you’ll be glad to send a copy to them at whatever address the jack***es are working out of now.

You'll probably have to yell at them and talk over them.
You have to get tuff with these people because,  being akin to thugs, brute force is (metaphorically speaking),  the only thing they understand.

The “govern yourself accordingly”   scam  strikes again!.
See:  http://mrnumber.com/1-515-200-7795

Ignore these people and block their calls.

Usually starts off by saying there are 2 “complaints” against you.  Or that there are “warrants” against you or that you are going to be arrested. Or that a lawsuit has been filed against you.  Gives you a spiel meant to frighten you into paying them something and then sometimes ends with the stupid phrase “govern yourself accordingly.”   Sometimes includes threats of arrest. Sometimes they use the phrase  “handle yourself accordingly.”

Sometimes they just call and threaten.  Hoping that the gullible and frightened will call back.

Really bad actors.  Stupid too.  Ignore and block their calls.

Here's a list of  CIDs they've used over the past 4 years or so according to 800notes. :

Adam Frost
ADVANCE AMERICA.
Adrian Lucas
Allstate Lending
Allied Financial
A.P.I affidavit process investigation
Callahan Financial
Capital Arbitration Group,  CAG
Check Mediation Service
Cochran & Colson
Colorado Solutions
Credit Control LLC
Direct Lending
Elliot Jacobs litigation services
Elliot Jacobs of Mediation Services
Financial Crimes Investigation Unit
fraud and work check division
Fraud and Worthless Check Division
Fraud Department
Fraud Division
Giles Lewis
Goldstein and Associates
Greenberg, Stein & Associates ,
Gregg Adams & Associates,
GREGORY ADAMS AND ASSOCIATES
Hoffman and Sharp
IMG
Jackson and Jackson Law Group
Justin Debroski
James Kaiser
Legal Mediation
Lester Williams
Litigation Support Group
Pre-trial intervention
Litigation Support Services
Madison state's pretrial mediation
Mediation Services
Mediation Services / Support services
Michael Goldstein  &  David Levine from LRG
National Fraud Advisory
national litigation
National Resolutioning
Nextiva  Inc
NCI
Northern Resolution Group ,
Office of Investigations
Outlaw and Griswald,
Phil Albright
PMS Consultants
Pre-tr1al Intervention
pretrial intervention services
Pre-trial litigation
Progressive Solutions, ,
Rebecca Outlaw
State Farming Fraud Dept
State Farmer
State Fraud Dept
Stone and Associates
Susan James
TAC and Associates ,
TAC Warrant Division    WARRANT SQUAD
The State Farmer Investigation Bureau
The Swatch Group
Victor Shaw
Walker, Levy and Associates
WARRANT SQUAD
WCCI
Weinberg Cochran, Coulson and Irwin
Weinberger and Associates
White Collar Crime Investigations
World Recovery Solutions
zfn and associates
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Call-back#       CID

202-827-0773 Susan James  Fraud Division
202-706-6163  WCCI  Fraud and Worthless Check Division
210-702-3948  Stone and Associates
210-202-0314  Nextiva Inc.
210-704-1217  Office of Investigations
210-762-6589  Pre-trail Intervention
210-762-5324  Justin Debroski ,Pre-trial intervention,  Check Mediation Service
210-762-6845  Outlaw and Griswald,  national litigation
210-774-4130  A.P.I affidavit process investigation
210-853-2440  Pre-trial intervention
210-957-8770  WCCI Weinberg Cochran, Coulson and Irwin
214-931-2857  NCI
214-613-5013  W.C.C.I. GROUP & ADVANCE AMERICA.  Adam Frost , IMG, Weinberger and Associates
231-237-4473  Pre-trial intervention
231-222-5152   Mediation Services  Jacquelyn Kaiser
234-525-6566  Mediation Services
240-595-6895  Weinberg, Cochran, Coulson and Irwin  WCCI, White Collar Crime Investigations
303-951-4619  Pre-trial litigation,  James Kaiser
303-562-1800  Pre-trial intervention
330-267-0358  Pre-trial intervention  Litigation Support LLC
330-406-0431   Adrian Lucas
330-800-3008   fraud and work check division,  WCCI
385-237-2875  Cindy Carter
402-817-7860   Direct Lending
402-218-4660   Callahan Financial
404-902-6309   Fraud Division
402-951-9327
404-418-7979   Legal Mediation  Financial Crimes Division
405-217-4552  Weinberg Cochrane Coulson and Irwin
440-249-7860
419-386-2390  None
440-387-4469  PTI
512-582-7440  Weinberg Cochran Coulson & Irwin  Stephen Fraser
512-590-7743  Giles Lewis  Weinberg, Cochran , Dept of Investigation,  Fraud and Worthless Check Division
513-299-0025  W.C.C.I.,
515-200-7795  Mediation Services/Legal Services, Dell Johnson, Beverly Goodman
561-288-1193  Gregg Adams & Associates,  Allied Financial / Gregory Adams and Associates
561-293-3620  GREGORY ADAMS AND ASSOCIATES,  Allied Financial
678-245-4304  Jackson and Jackson Law Group  The State Farmer Investigation Bureau   State Farming Fraud Dept .  State Farmer.
678-257-7285  Amy Strickland and Rebecca Outlaw
678-503-5412  Rebecca Outlaw
678-508-6637  Financial crimes division
678-261-7255  Jessica Walker
678-608-2457  Rebecca Outlaw and the Fraud Department
678-608-2459  Rebecca Outlaw
619-677-1728  Financial Crimes Investigation Unit  World Recovery Solutions
678-799-7422
678-831-0306  Greenberg, Stein & Associates ,  Allstate Lending
678-799-8670  Rebecca (or Eliz. Outlaw)
682-717-2777  Hoffman and Sharp
704-469-7086  investigator/ Richard smith office
770-450-8136  National Fraud Advisory
801-208-8809
801-317-1025 Pre Trial Mediation Services   Howard Grable
801-317-1623  Pre Trial Mediation Services   Howard Grable
817-200-7657  Cochran & Colson
832-261-0005  Fraud and Worthless Check Division,  WCCI
832-377-3051  Fraud & Worthless Check Division,  Preliminary Prosecuters
832-377-3064  Northern Resolution Group , State Fraud Dept"
832-408-6299  Weinburg, Cockran & Irwin Law Firm  WCCI  at  http://www.wccigroup.com
http://www.johnsonmediations.com/contact-us/   (Now known as:  http://www.republicnationalrecovery.com/)
832-412-4931 Michael Goldstein   David Levine from LRG
832-415-3710 Fraud Department of the State of Texas,  Fraud Department of the State of Texas
859-904-2420  Mediation Services,  pretrial intervention services,  Elliot Jacobs of Mediation Services
859-208-0233
859-208-0373  Mediation Services
859-904-2420  Howard Grable
859-208-0289  pre trial medication services  Mediation services  pre-trial mediation services Madison state's pretrial mediation
866-681-1776  zfn and associates
877-210-4597   PMS Consultants
877-416-0004  Walker, Levy and Associates
888-386-5772  National Resolutioning    investigation department
888-502-5665  TAC and Associates , TAC Warrant Division , Legal Mediation , Victor Shaw, representative  PC  WARRANT SQUAD
888-365-7129  Credit Control LLC
901-425-1477  Phil Albright  Pre-trial intervention
901-453-3492  Mediation Services / Support services  Elliot Jacobs litigation services
901-407-2023  Lititgation Support Services, Pre-trial intervention
954-345-4718  Gregory Adams and Association
970-366-4100  Progressive Solutions, Pre-trial intervention,   Colorado Solutions,
972-564-8764  Capital Arbitration Group,  CAG/The Swatch Group

There may be more but this is what my research has come up with.

Personally I think:  http://www.republicnationalrecovery.com  is responsible for all this “govern yourself accordingly” garbage.
Now calling themselves
Federal Processing.
http://www.federalprocessing.com/
BBB:
THIS BUSINESS IS NOT BBB ACCREDITED.
Federal Processing Services Inc
Phone: (877) 385-2905
5677 S Transit Rd Ste 328, Lockport, NY 14094
BBB® C- Rating
On a scale of A+ to F
Government Actions
FTC Collections Action
Date of Action: 3/13/2014
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court halted a debt collection operation that the agency charged with violating the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Fair Debt Collection Act by misrepresenting that they were with the government, falsely accusing consumers of committing check fraud, and then threatening consumers with arrest.

Part of the FTC’s continuing crackdown on scams that target consumers in financial distress, the lawsuit charged two individuals – Mark Briandi and William Moses – and 13 interrelated companies in connection with the case.  Another company – that was not actively involved, but profited from the scheme – was charged as a relief defendant.  The defendants allegedly bought debts and collected debts owed to other companies, and much of the debts the defendants collected on had originated from payday loans.

In addition to Briandi and Moses, the complaint names as defendants Federal Check Processing, Federal Recoveries, Federal Processing, Federal Processing Services, United Check Processing, Central Check Processing, Central Processing Services, American Check Processing, State Check Processing, Check Processing, Nationwide Check Processing, US Check Processing, and Flowing Streams. The complaint names Empowered Racing LLC as a relief defendant.

See:  https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/140313unitedcheckcmpt.pdf

5152007216 calls me threatening litigation and even tried to verify my social and then hung up on me twice after I asked for additional detail.

I have been getting harassed by a Kristine from API Mediation calling from a 515-619-6277 number daily between my cell phone and my work phone Telling me I owe them $400 and naming a random payday loan place and then threatening me with all this paperwork crap. and then I am supposed to call 1-888-564-5173 ext 264. they say a case number and start to say my address and then stop after the street address and the case number isn't the same every time. I am a recent victim to identity theft and I had answered a call like this right before. so idk how they do it but don't answer the calls. she couldn't even tell me her address and there is nothing in Des Moines for this company. I cant find anything anywhere with a company with this name

Victims of identity theft are not responsible for any debt that were incurred as a result of that theft.  For the rest of what you need to know, you should read the other posts in this thread.