800-918-3844
Did you get a call from 800-918-3844? Read the posts below to find out details about this number. Also report unwanted calls to help identify who is using this phone number.
kathy5 Dec 2007I RECEIVED A CLL FROM 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE AT WORK STAING THAT I WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST AND EITHER ME OR MY ATTORNY NEEDED TO CALL THEM. A LADY NAME KAY SCOT WAS FROM DIVISON 421 AND KATHERN WAS FROM DIVISION 410. THEY DID NOT TELL ME WHAT COMPANY THEY WERE WITH. I NEVER ANSWER THE PHONE BECAUSE I THINK THEY ARE FAKE AND TRYING TO STILL YOUR MONEY. HAS ANYONE ELSE RECEIVED ANY PHONE CALLS.- I JUST RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE SAME TELEPHONE NUMBER, AND THE PERSON THAT CALLED ME STATED THAT I WAS GOING TO JAIL TODAY, BECAUSE OF A DEBT. I WAS ALL IN A KNOT, BECAUSE THEY STATED THAT I HAVE A WARRANT OUT FOR MY ARREST. I CALLED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO SEE IF THEY REALLY HAD A WARRANT, AND THEY STATED NO. THE LADY KEPT ASKING ME TO PAY THE DEBT NOW, OR I HAVE TO GO TO JAIL. I GETTING LEGAL ADVISE ON HOW TO HANDLE THIS. BECAUSE MY NERVES ARE JUST RECKED.
- going to jail for a debt? this screams SCAM!
Let's go over this together people for the last time
YOU CANNOT GO TO JAIL FOR OWING A BILL!
ITS ILLEGALL FOR ANYONE TO CLAIM THIS
AND IF SUCH A DEBT WAS LEGIT, ITS NOT ANYMORE
SINCE THEY VIOLATED LAWS,YOU NOW OWE THEM NOTHING.
BECAUSE YOU NOW CAN SUE THEM FOR VIOLATIONS.
YOU CANNOT GO TO JAIL FOR A DEBT!
IF THEY STARTED PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL FOR OWING A BILL,
THEN EVERYONE WOULD BE IN JAIL.
If someone calls you up claiming this, just laugh at them
its a fraud and scam. They cannot do it.
- I recieved a phone call from this number today also. She said her name was Sara Winters and I needed to try and settle this account out of court. She said I should consult with an attorney. An hour later I recieved another call from her supervisor Robert Gripps and what I intended to do about this. He said I needed to come up with $320 today or I would have to suffer the repurcution. I talked to him an hour later and told him I couldn't do anything today and he said he would give me the weekend? Is this company for real?
- I also received a call from two different people. The first call was a while back and the woman was rude and wouldn't let me talk. So, therefore I hung up on her. I just received the second call a while ago. She didn't state where she was calling from. She did give me her name and ext, but I can't recall her name. She's at ext 421, and she stated that I committed some kind of fraud. And she went on and on about the fraud I supposedly committed. I hung up once again because I honestly think it's a scam. She called me 3 minutes later after I hung up the first time. I didn't let her get one word in and hung the call up. It's against the law if anyone calls you at your work place regarding collections and so forth. SCAM is written all over it. C'mon if they were an attorney or collection agency they know it's against the law to call a person at work.
- I just received the same phone call. It was for my husband and she said for him or his attorney to call her back immediately. Said that he was a person of interest. Said that it was imperative that he call back today. I took down the number but he hasn't called her back and probably won't. She didn't say what company she was with or what it was about.
- That stupid phrase "person of interest" is always a giveaway as to the identity of this scam; the crooks from States Predisposition/Bass PreLitigation say that in many of their phoned attempts to extort money from their victims. The "person of interest" phrase is often used by law enforcement authorities to describe someone they want to talk to regarding a criminal investigation. Of course, the people calling you and your husband are attempting to imply that they are law enforcement officers; don't fall for this scam.
This is a group of crooks that was originally based in Florida and, after the Florida attorney general filed a $1.4 million lawsuit against them, they set-up shop in Georgia using the name States Predisposition. Like many crooks, they go by various names: Bass Enterprises/Bass Pre-Litigation/United Legal Investigations Bureau/United Federal Bank/Impact Business Marketing/Ellis Crosby & Associates/States Predisposition Services/Jackson Phillips & Associates/Kirby & Associates and many others. And they often are calling about supposed PayDay loans.
Though their aliases vary, their method never does. Masquerading as bankers, attorneys, police or other government officials, these crooks call consumers and attempt to extort money with a myriad of illegal false threats. These threats are always phony and include arresting you, ruining your credit rating, serving you "papers" for a lawsuit and, yes, taking your children away from you. In one recent phone call to a consumer, these crooks even pretended to be on a walkie talkie coordinating a police raid of the consumer's home. Granted, this stuff is laughably ridiculous, but, sadly, some people fall for it.
Fortunately, law enforcement authorities and the press have taken notice of these scammers. Check out this excerpt from a recent article in the Florida Times-Union newspaper, and note the last sentence:
"Among the most prominent complaints: Claiming or implying to be attorneys or government agents, threatening arrest or legal action, claiming or collecting exorbitant debt amounts and using harassing or intimidation techniques such as repeated phone calls or calls to a debtor's place of work. In July, Attorney General Bill McCollum's office filed a $1.3 million lawsuit against the firm - also known as Jackson Phillips & Associates - and earlier this week , state attorneys won the first round of the battle in a Jacksonville courtroom by defeating the agency's motion to dismiss the case. A motion to shut down the firm while the case proceeds will be heard in January. The state is also working with Georgia officials to determine whether Bass is trying to escape Florida prosecution by moving across the state line to Folkston, Ga. Records at Folkston City Hall show that a business license was issued in June to Bass officials Frank and Evelyn Jackson to establish a collection agency called States Predisposition Services Inc."
Read the entire article here: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120107/met_221875639.shtml
I don't know if the Florida attorney general knows it yet, but in addition to their Georgia address, States Predisposition has a listing back in Jacksonville which, not surprisingly, is the same address as Bass Enterprises a.k.a. Bass Pre-Litigation:
States Predisposition
6931 Lillian Road
Jacksonville, FL 32211
(904) 446-9236
http://www.yellowpages.com/listings/search_nearby/10320305358
Bass Enterprises
6931 Lillian Rd
Jacksonville, FL 32211
904-674-2482
http://yellowpages.aol.com/business/bass-ente ... ass+enterprises
And this is the first address they set-up in Georgia last year. It's questionable whether this is a real operations center or just a mail drop or telephone forwarding location:
States Predisposition
1204 South 2nd Street, Suite F
Folkston, GA 31537
(912) 496-7220
The other address that they've used in Georgia is merely a rented private mailbox at The UPS Store that's located in a St. Mary's, GA shopping center:
States Pre-Disposition Services Inc
6586 HWY 40 E
STE B-7 Unit 340
St. Mary's, GA 31558
http://www.whitepages.com/search/Replay?search_id=61241442612659447279&lower=25&more_info=1
You should report these crooks to all the following federal and state law enforcement agencies (you can do most of these online):
1) File a report with your local police
2) File a report online with the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov
3) File a report with Sid Barrett, Senior Assistant Georgia Attorney General at sid.barrett@law.state.ga.us or 404-656-3202
4) File a report to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum at http://myfloridalegal.com/contact.nsf/contact?Open&Section=Attorney_General and be sure to let them know that it regards the scammers at Bass Pre-Litigation/Jackson Phillips/States Predisposition
5) File a complaint with your state's attorney general. The contact information for each state's attorney general is listed at www.naag.org Just scroll down to the national map and click on your state.
6) File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission here: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
If these crooks call you again, be sure not to tell them anything other than that you've already reported them to federal and state authorities and not to call again. After telling them that, I'm sure they'll huff and puff and make more ridiculous threats; if they do, report them to law enforcement again and take consolation in the fact that you rattled their cage. :)
In addition to reporting these grifters to law enforcement, you also have the option of suing them. For more information on this option and for other advice on protecting yourself from outlaw debt collectors, check out these websites:
http://www.naca.net/debt-collection-abuse/
http://www.fairdebtlawyers.com/
http://www.budhibbs.com/First.htm
http://www.myfairdebt.com/
http://www.consumercounselgroup.com/
http://www.creditlawnetwork.com/
Finally, these scammers have a long history of threatening people with arrest and worse. Remember: if someone calls you and demands money to prevent you from being arrested, it is ALWAYS a scam.- Update:
Don't bother contacting Sid Barret at the Georgia Attorney General's office; he's just referring victims of this scam to the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs. Here's the link to file complaint there: http://consumer.georgia.gov/00/channel_title/0,2094,5426814_39102589,00.html
- i just received a call this morning from Mr. J. Wms who stated that I was a person of interest and the he needed to hear from me today by 1:00 and that he was from the office of state precedence dept. of nc left the # 800-918-3844 ext.423. well i called the number back and now the recording says state predisposition services.
- There is no such thing as "the office of state precedence dept. of nc"...it's a scam, of course. And that stupid "person of interest" phrase is a trademark, meaningless phrase used by the crooks at the States Predisposition scam to trick you into thinking that you're being investigated by the government. In truth, you're being targeted for extortion by a group of grifters.
Ignore their threats and see my message above for information on reporting these crooks to federal and state law enforcement. Hope this helps.
- sabrina5 Dec 2007I just received a call from these people too. One on my cell and the other at my office phone. Lauren x420 left the messages, with the same message - that I am a person of interest and either I need to call or my attorney. I've forwarded it on to my attorney.
- If this is Sabrina Dulworth, I would like to tell you that these people have been calling our house! Apparently you gave them my fiance's number as a contact. We would appreciate it if you would not give our information out as your information, because it is not yours to give out! If I have the wrong person just disregard this. If I don't, don't give out our information!!
- tracy11 Dec 2007
- I just recieved a call from this Kathleen kerr telling me about 3 vilolations, I aksed her for all her information. she did not want to give it to me but I told her I was going to sue her for harrassing ame at work. She was a little hesitant but she claims she is in ST. Mary's Georgia. I don't know if it's true but I will find out
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