712-221-2637

They ask to press 1 for investigator.
I'm new in this country, this is my fourth month, hired by university as visiting lecturer. Back in my country, the word "investigator" only to investigate violence things. I will report this matter first thing in the morning to university, let see what they can do for me.

I received a call from Iowa yesterday afternoon. Judith Crosby left me a voice-mail with pre-trial intervention stating I had a pending case in her office. She should said, I have up to 5:00pm to callback before my case would be submitted. I called back and Attorney Paul Davis from investigation picked up the phone. He started yelling at me, saying I did bank fraud, check fraud. It was a class 3 felony. He said I had either two options give a statement or pay 1100 of restitution. I asked him  to send me verification of proof. He said he didn't have anything to prove then hung up on me. I called back asked him where he was located and he said Idaho then Iowa. I was threatened with having my case submitted to the attorney general office of NY and having arrest warrant issued and being picked up. Then I was told I can go and post bond to get out of jail and go in front of a Judge and try to prove myself. I'm very sad and disgusted. So I went researching through the Internet and did not come up with Goldstein & Associates. I could not find Attorney Paul Davis. I looked up the business number and it was a Verizon cellphone  number. I'm very scared as a unhealthy woman this man put me through unnecessary stress yesterday. He had all my information. So I know for a fact my identity has been stolen. I wanted to put my story out there because this is completely wrong. You do not hurt people this way.

This outfit has a reputation for breaking the law.
This is a common ploy by criminals attempting to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged, go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished, 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 work place repeatedly in an attempt to shame you into paying.  They also use the “process server” who calls and claims he is going to serve you, but then says you could avoid it by calling another number.

Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt.  It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes.  The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days of receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.
Read up on your rights here, get template letters to send 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:  http://consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php

Thank you, I will do that.

Omg, this is nuts. I called the attorney general for ny. He told me they are scammers. I can't believe people are out there doing this. This is really weighing heavy on my heart. I'm extremely sick over this. Again, Thank you for all the help.

Nothing to worry about.  They are criminals trying to extort money from you.  As long as you stand your ground and don't pay them they will move on.

Yeah, I will. Thanks.

This woman Ashley Andreson called me back after I told her that she was a liar and a fraud. I told her to stop calling me. She is not threating to show up at my parents house...a location I have not lived at for over 15 years. My father is home with dementia. This is harassing behavior and I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT> I am calling LAPD to report her.

Omg, that is insanity. Yes you need to call the police right away. Is it from the same number above? Also report them to the FBI. I already did.

I received a partial voice message from this number 2 days ago and only listed as Cherokee, IA on caller ID.  There is not enough recorded to even get the call back number.  It is an identical partial recording that I received today from a different number: 440-249-7860.  The company from this number is listed as Litigation support.

This Judith woman keeps calling me twice a day saying i have a filed case against me that I need to call or my attorney need to call her back or my case will be submitted. I called back a moment ago and told her to find the number she's looking for cause she's got the wrong one that I've never been in trouble. I should have realized it was a scam when the vice recorder wasn't official with her name number and office name. If it continues in filling for harassment and she can deal with her own case attorney and court. I'm sick of this.

You should try blocking that number, or if they call again, don't answer in any way. Remember, it's likely directed at whoever answers the phone since it's bogus. You hear nothing from anyone if you don't answer in any way. Don't waste your breath telling them to stop calling, they don't understand that and most likely won't. Fight them back by giving them a ringing phone.

That Judith person called me too. But when I called back I got Paul from investigation. After I did my research and contacted the appropriate people. I left his ass. A good long voice-mail on why it would be in his best interest to never call my number's again.

This is all I can find on Goldstein and Associates.  This may not be the same group calling you.

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Report this call to whoever handles security for your employer.  This looks like a common debt collection scam.

Report them:

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection  (Threatening criminal prosecution to collect a civil debt is a clear violation of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Act)

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.  You might have to yell at the scammer and talk over him or her.  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.

The 440-249-7860 number is connected to the old "govern yourself accordingly" scam.

The “govern yourself accordingly”   Scam group.  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. 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.”

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
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
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
234-525-6566  Adam Frost
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
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.,
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.
678-503-5412  Rebecca Outlaw
678-508-6637  Financial crimes division
678-608-2457  Rebecca Outlaw and the Fraud Department
678-608-2459  Rebecca Outlaw
619-677-1728  Financial Crimes Investigation Unit  World Recovery Solutions
678-831-0306  Greenberg, Stein & Associates ,  Allstate Lending
682-717-2777  Hoffman and Sharp
704-469-7086  investigator/ Richard smith office
770-450-8136  National Fraud Advisory
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
866-681-1776  zfn and associates
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.

In any event, ignore these people and block their calls.

Looks like they have been inactive since 2011.    there are several with that name and inactive that same year. Sunbiz.org
GOLDSTEIN AND ASSOCIATES GROUP LLC
Filing Information
Document Number
L09000007111
FEI/EIN Number
NONE
Date Filed
01/22/2009
State
FL
Status
INACTIVE
Last Event
LC VOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION
Event Date Filed
07/22/2010
Event Effective Date
NONE
Principal Address
15249 AMBERLY DR
3
TAMPA, FL 33647
Mailing Address
PO BOX 48169
TAMPA, FL 33646
Registered Agent Name & Address JOHNSON, LAVETTE
15249 AMBERLY DR
TAMPA, FL 33647
Authorized Person(s) Detail Name & Address

Title MGRM

JOHNSON, ANTONIO
PO BOX 48169
TAMPA, FL 33646

Title MGRM

JOHNSON, LAVETTE
PO BOX 48169
TAMPA, FL 33646

This freak call me back. I told him I didn't call. He told me it was automated. I told his [***] he was a scam artist and he just laughed it off. I told him, I reported him to the FBI and the Attorney General Office and he hung. He kept asking me who I was. This [***] is a total scam. They are messing with the wrong person. They want money go work like the rest of us.

They called our house also and left the same message, so I called it back. They said that they was looking for a person with the same name as my son and they gave me the last four #'s of the boys SS#. Where is the privacy! Told them they had the wrong #. The third time they called they said they was looking for a 32 yr old boy with the same name as my son. I told them never to call our # again and the lady said, " we will see about that!"