855-254-0813

Someone from Nationwide called from this number indicating I had defaulted on a payday loan. I have never taken out a loan. They said they would continue with prearranged wire transfers for balance then hung up. Never got loan or set up wire transfers....amazing the lengths these places will go to.

If you KNOW you owe no money, or believe the call was from a fake debt collector, please take the time to read this:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors

Have called several times wanting me to return their calls.

This person left a message on my phone looking for my husband to resolve a legal matter on some claim from Statewide, his name was Sean Archer ... he also stated the law allows him to contact the person's references if he does not hear back from me as soon as possible. We don't owe anyone anything so I see SCAM all over it and decided to post it hoping no one falls in the hands of these ruthless people...

Just like previous posts I received a same such call almost threatening..

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

•is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
•refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
•asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
•exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:

•Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.

•Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.

•Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft – charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.

•Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate – but you think the collector may not be – contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.

•Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors

Voicemail left by a "Gail Miller" (female) at 610-674-0465 asked me to call this number.  

This is the voicemail:  "Yes this message is intended for [my name].  My name is Gail Miller.  I’m calling to verify a valid telephone number, address, and employment information regarding the location and tracing efforts for [my ex-husband].  Born in April of 1976.  Now it’s very important that I do speak with you regarding his whereabouts.  If I cannot verify this information through you, the law does allow me to contact his references.  Please call me back today at 855-254-0813 and please use reference number xxxxxxx.  Thank you."

Received a cryptic VM message from 515-478-3497, the woman never identified herself as a debt collector or what company she was with.  She threatened that if I didn’t call 855-254-0813 she would call my “references” and get my employment information to garnish my wages.  This # goes to Nationwide and the desk of Nathan Summers according the VM I got when I called after hours.

I have no idea who Nathan Summers is or who Nationwide is, nor any valid debt to them that they would have a right to garnish my wages.  I have not received any letters showing the validity of any debt I would owe to Nationwide/Nathan Summer.  Pretty sure this is zombie debt collecting using illegal scare tactics to get me to pay.  

If I receive any other correspondence from them, I will be sure to update this post.

Did a quick internet search about Nationwide and Nathan Summers and came up with this info from Ripoff Report.  Sounds similar to what I have experienced.  

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Nationwide-Credit-Collection/internet/Nationwide-Credit-Collection-Nathan-Summers-Nationwide-Collection-Internet-832282

For at least the last year, an illegal group of debt collectors have been terrorizing consumers, their family, friends, and employees threatening to arrest the individual of an unpaid loan or other debt (their generally don't even owe). Be aware debt is a civil matter, not a criminal matter, and you can't be arrested. They threaten a warrant if the victim does not pay a sum of money by the credit card over the phone.

Some of the people they are calling do not owe a debt.  Others they are calling have already settled their debt with the organization who owns the accounts. Even if you do owe a debt, do not be deceived by the actions of this group.  Many of the accounts they are attempting to collect they do not own.  In other words, if you pay these people, that is not going to clear your debt with its rightful owner.  

Although when pressed the callers give the victim an address in Columbia South Carolina (usually a vacant lot) or Atlanta GA (often a parking lot near the bus station or a Peachtree Road Address). They are actually out of the Charlotte North Carolina area. The scammers are using the following business names (and there are many others, and they seem to create new ones daily).  They will normally answer the call back number as “Investigations”.  They often call people with a recording claiming they are looking for a "defendant"

Richardson Simms and Associates
Holland, Dempsey, and Associates
Hughes and Berkeley
RJ Financial LLC
Ondrick and Miles
Anderson & Banker Mediation or Pre-Trial Litigators
Reynolds, Hill, and Associates
Berkley and Associates
Kaufmann and Associates
Sanderson Blaine & Associates
Blaine and Associates
McKenzie Reid Associates
Kennedy, Kline, & Associates
Nationwide Asset and Recovery
Piedmont Investigations and Procurement
Raffino, Garrison, & McCoy
Greenman, Schwartz & Associates
McCoy Law Group
Salem Associates
Reynolds and Associates
Ryan, Carter and Fields
Berman, Maxwell and associates
DOF Investigations
Vaughn & Associates
Bailey Rowe and Associates
Berkley Hughes and Associates


Here is a set of links to a variety of threads on this forum that document this group and its behavior. They include the experiences of victims as well as a former employee or two that quit within a week of finding out exactly what was going on. They also include responses from consumer advocates and people who are really criminal justice professionals advising victims of what to do

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-748-8367
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-719-1725
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-676-3492
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-805-5549
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-751-1084
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-803-2349
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-775-2417
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-775-2418
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-755-3417
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-746-3946
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-676-3485
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-966-3768
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-699-9749/2
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-966-6246
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-678-5437
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-967-0061
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-746-3948
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-791-2353
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-699-6246
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-735-8624
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-751-1083
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-736-3678/2
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-966-8529
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-967-2633
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-460-1576
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-609-3074
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-576-6210
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-601-5849
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-230-1283
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-658-0438
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-510-9327
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-509-0338
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-803-0755
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-511-0627
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-509-3033
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-509-0339
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-511-0631
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-866-883-2350/2
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-244-3381
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-512-0269
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-295-9550
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-966-6277
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-511-4248
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-725-5312
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-756-9997
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-512-1278
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-512-0531
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-512-0273
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-719-5041
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-791-9102
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-512-400-2637
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-585-730-6153
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-512-1712
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-657-1430
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-643-7815
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-860-3119
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-860-2973
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-831-4161
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-316-3547
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-714-134-4576
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-948-4460
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-415-1851
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-678-389-6196
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-584-6184
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-210-239-1791
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-844-245-7180
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-415-1287
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-440-210-9666/2
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-455-6485
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-425-201-0376
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-393-3515
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-406-272-8763
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-393-0743
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-408-9651
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-855-254-0813

Since this group is actually operating out of the Charlotte area, the proper local jurisdiction to file police reports would be the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CMPD/Pages/default.aspx

You can make a report by telephone - If calling outside the Mecklenburg County, the Non-Emergency Crime Reporting: 704-336-7600

You can also make a police report online at
http://charmeck.org/city/charlotte/CMPD/Pages/ReportACrime.aspx

Someone from this company called me and were demanding that i get a prepaid card and give them the money from it.  When i did not, they called by employer who forwarded them to me.  I spoke with Kimberly King.  When I told her I knew they were a scam she got even more demanding and rude. She demanded that I give her my phone number so I did and then blocketd it.  

This is a lie that is not how it works. Why are fabricating your story? No one ever told you to do a wire transfer. This is a licensed debt collections and you can verify this info. Unfortunately, you get people who know how to manipulate the system by not taking care of there personal business and end up in collections. No one likes collections. But the truth is you're the one who put yourself there. Do research fully under compliance.

Then you won't mind posting the legal company name and physical address - NOT PO Box - and website, if any - of this "fine" business!

openconsumer.info

That doesn't tell readers anything.  If they're "legit", post legal company name, and physical address.

Legit, why would you call the OP a liar?  You don't know what happened, or their situation.  I work for an FDCPA Attorney and this particular phone call has SCAM written all over it.  In fact, I'm working on a case against this company right now.  If you work for "Nationwide" please let them know.

I received a voice message from a woman claiming to be Amanda Moss from the financial crimes division. She stated "This message is intended for --, Call (302) 450-1719 regarding felony charges against your social security number. You or your attorney need to submit an answer before charges are filed." I called "Amanda Moss" who answered as "law offices". I requested the name of the firm and the address. She placed me on hold and someone claiming to be "Attorney Sean Archer" answered and asked how he could help me. I requested the name and address of the firm and informed him that I asked "Amanda Moss" for the same info. He stated that she was one of his investigators, he had office all over but the corporate office was in Delaware and then he asked if I was an attorney calling on behalf of an attorney. I stated no my name is --- and I would like the name and address of the firm, agency, or company. He became irrate and screamed in the background to go ahead and file charges against me since they had confirmed my location. I could not help laughing since it would not be difficult to locate me since I have been at the same address and job for several years. He refused to give me the name and address and hung up on me. Total scam!!!

Any interested parties can find out about the companies (and their ringleaders) that are behind these calls.

RJ Financial
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-9e81ddc1f9993a2/ ... 8-512-1385-1278

Capital Solutions
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-577-5022

I was just called from a  973 845 8861 telling I had a 2010 judgement against me