888-796-6879

Global Services Group - when asked what their company does, slimy phone agent replies "We call for a variety of reasons."  Yeah, right.  Probably a bill collector.  Turns out hey had the wrong number.  Called us on a number we have had 9 years.  May they rot in hell.

Just got a call from someone who claimed to be Sean Charles with Global Services.  Said he was a mediation specialist and asked about a girl I dated 20 years ago.  When I asked for information about his company he said to Google it and hung up on me.  Caller ID showed that he called from 314-226-1484 but he said to call 888-796-6897.

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

I no longer answer my phone to numbers I do not recognize I simply google the number and if it comes up with anything remotely connected with a spam I block the number. End of problem.

I got a call also.  I told the lady was recording the call and she hung up...where is this company located?  Anyone know

I was told it was loated at 910 W. Van Buren Suite 408 Chicago, IL

Looks like another scammer trying to jerk my chain. I don't answer calls that don't have a name associated with caller ID.
If no identifying information is left with a voicemail, or a purpose for the call, it will be unanswered and blocked. End of calls from this scammer.

Call comes in as a Florida number, forwarded to voicemail. They leave a recorded message with the 888-796-6879

Said that I owe a loan that was talking out in 2013 when I said I have never took out a loan and then asked for the information  of the company  that the loan came from he was like OK so you will call me back then said his name was Tim McDowell this is a scam

Received a phone call from 817.259.0481 but the vm indicated to call 888.796.6879 and the representative was from a company named Global Service Group with a claim number from Compass bank from 2010.  He indicated that he was filing a legal claim for a $300 loan that was unpaid.  When I asked him for the account # for such a loan he only had the last 4 digits and I asked if he had the full # and he indicated to me if it was my loan or not.  LOL!!!  These type of companies are ridiculous.  When I call the 817.259.0481 # non one answers the call it's all automated.

This is a common ploy by criminals masquerading as debt collectors who are 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, friends, or relatives repeatedly in an attempt to shame you into paying.  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

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

I keep getting repeated calls from 530-240-4301(twice a day) California area, leaving messages about a person that I don't know and to call back 1888-796-6879.
I tried to call them back, have my phone number removed from their list, they said are from Global Services and same guy hung up on my multiple times. Is this a scam? should I report it, where?

To File complaints FDCPA/TCPA violations:
Your State Attorney General
Their State Attorney general
www.naag.org (you can find your state AG at this link).
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/
http://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/state-state-guide
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-conversations
Also with the BBB and follow completely through with it.
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/c ... ations-1282.php
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/haunted-phantom-debt
Seek a FDCPA/TCPA Attorney if need be.
***A company must be licensed in their state as well as the one they are trying to collect in if two different states are involved.

Some Tips:
*Keep all messages
*Take a picture of your Caller ID
*Keep any and all conversations recorded to your states recording laws, some require they be told, others do not. This can be transferred to a recording device.
*Keep a notebook handy for writing time,date, who you spoke with and what the conversation detailed.
*Check your SOL for your state as well.
*Attorneys need to be licensed as a DC to collect, all DC's must be licensed in their state as well as yours if different.
http://www.insideedition.com/investigative/93 ... debt-collectors
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/debt-collectors-list.html
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-release ... rtners-announce

Follow the steps in what you need to know here:
https://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassi ... ou-need-to-know
See Residents post here also:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls
Templates of Letters:
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-319-242-7350

http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ...
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection

For Extortion Scam Operations:
File reports with the FBI, your state attorney general and Department Of Justice,CFB,FTC & FCC..  Emails can be attached to complaints filed with IC3, the cyber crimes division of the FBI.

http://www.nw3c.org/
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
http://www.fraud.org/
http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html
Tip off FBI about this extortion attempt by filing form at: stips.fbi.gov/
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/haunted-phantom-debt

Also see here:
https://800notes.com/arts/I2neMkbUAAo/where-to-report-phone-crime
https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/fraudaware ... and-answer.html

And see:
http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/alerts/nationwide-debt-association.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety
http://www.ic3.gov/media/2014/140627.aspx
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-944ec1426a8bcbb ... service-attacks
http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/ ... r-phones/ndF4c/
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1828
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-86217073a9c8dad ... 077595690349410
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-b95e185ca7ca356 ... debt-collectors
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/pressreleases/extortion_scam.htm
http://www.fdcpa.me/fake-process-server-injunction/
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-9413b3202bc8b6c ... net%27s-tactics
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http://6abc.com/archive/7806938/
http://dfi.wa.gov/consumers/alerts/cashnet-payday.htm
http://www.cashnetusa.com/consumer-notices
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Extortion Scam Related to Delinquent Payday Loans

Washington, D.C.
December 07, 2010  FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691

— filed under: Press Release

The Internet Crime Complaint Center has received many complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. Callers claim the victim is delinquent in a payday loan and must repay the loan to avoid legal consequences. The callers purport to be representatives of the FBI, Federal Legislative Department, various law firms, or other legitimate-sounding agencies. They claim to be collecting debts for companies such as United Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Advance, U.S. Cash Net, and other Internet check-cashing services.

According to complaints received from the public, the callers have accurate data about victims, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, employer information, bank account numbers, and the names and telephone numbers of relatives and friends. How the fraudsters obtained the personal information varies, but in some cases victims have reported they completed online applications for other loans or credit cards before the calls started.

The fraudsters relentlessly call the victim’s home, cell phone, and place of employment. They refuse to provide any details about the alleged payday loans and become abusive when questioned. The callers have threatened victims with legal actions, arrests, and, in some cases, physical violence if they do not pay. In many cases, the callers harass victims’ relatives, friends, and employers.

These people keep calling my family members, who are they? They told me they we're from Chicago and that I owe 3 debt collections. I do not have any collections. Please tell me how to stop them from calling my family. They don't even call myself.

Read what Tamianth posted above.

Three prior comments provided links to resources to help you solve your problem. That effort goes to waste while you ignore them.

The thugs are deliberately calling everyone except you to create false drama. What your records say does not matter to them. Their story is that you owe something and deserve punishment. The issue is not only about ceasing the calls but defending your rights. To do that, it's best to find where the bullies work and confront them, on paper, via USPS Certified.

related fresh FTC blog post:
Don’t recognize that debt? Here’s what to do.
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/dont-recognize-debt-heres-what-do

Read and understand Tamianth's notes!

Call blocker might be of some help.  Also don't pick up on numbers you do not recognize, or where there are caller IDs that seem odd.  Or where there is no caller ID.  There’s  no way to stop the calls from being initiated.

Part of the Global Scam most likely out of Jamaica or perhaps the Island of Nevis. Or Jamaica or Nassau in the Bahamas.  Clearly an off-shore scamming group.

They also call from other numbers see: 251-301-9797, 800notes.  This is a Jamaican or Nevis or Nassau or Trinidad (I'm pretty sure) offshore group.  They also go by the name, Spotlight,  Global Solutions, GDS, GDS Solutions  as well as Capital Risk  Capital Services, Capital Law, Capital Indemnity solutions, and Provisional Risk Services.  Also ARA, ITS and IPS and NAR.  National Recovery, International Processing Solutions,  NRA, Northwest Recovery. They may use other  CIDs and phony creditors as well.  Their signature phrase when you ask them where they are located is to say: "they are in Miami but have 48 locations in the US".  Right.   Lately they’ve been adding the phrase “except Hawaii and Alaska.  Just to show you they now have learned some geography.  These people are nothing more than   overseas scammers.  Ignore these people and block their calls.
Report them:  See:  http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
My own research suggests that they are the remnants of
CWB Services, LLC.  (Cutter Group)
2114 Central Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64110
Sued by the FTC in 2013.  Can’t operate in the US, so they used their Jamaican or Nevis subsidiaries to carry on the scam.  Which accounts for the US – like scamming operations they engage in.

Additional Business Names Related to CWB Services:
Basseterre
Anasazi Group / Anasazi Services
Clearwater Bay Marketing
CP Investors, LLC
Cutter Group LLC AKA Longboat/Cutter Group
Greenwood Holding Group, LLC.
Insight Capital
Mass Street Group
Namakan Capital
National Recovery Service
Quick Cash / QuickCash.com
Sandpoint Capital LLC
Shoreline Online, LLC
St. Armands Services, LLC
Triple Services, LLC
Twin Bluffs
Vandelier Group, LLC.
Also see:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/132-3184/cwb-services-llc
Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff, v. CWB Services, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company;
Orion Services, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company;
Sandpoint Capital, LLC, a Nevis limited liability company;
Sandpoint, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Basseterre Capital, LLC, a Nevis limited liability company;
Basseterre Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Namakan Capital, LLC, a Nevis limited liability company;
Namakan Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Vandelier Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
St. Armands Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Anasazi Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;
Anasazi Services LLC, a Missouri limited liability company;
Longboat Group LLC, also doing business as Cutter Group, a Delaware limited liability company;
Oread Group LLC, also doing business as Mass Street Group, a Delaware limited liability company;
Timothy A. Coppinger, individually and as a principal of one or more of the Corporate Defendants; and
Frampton T. Rowland, III, individually and as a principal of one or more of the Corporate Defendants, Defendants
Note that Cutter Group is listed as a Defendant

I received lots of calls from this number all week they have been constantly calling me & my husband saying that I'm going to be sent to court & arrested for fraudulent check activity and that I owe $200 for a payday loan that was supposedly taken out in November 2011 of which  I've I never took out this payday loan and told them this. They insisted that I did and that I will have my time in court. So I called back and spoke to a guy named Cody Adams he said he was the lead director of the company Mediation Service and that the name of the company was GLOBAL SERVICE GROUP. He said that they have all of my information including SSN, address, phone number, family members information & etc. I said first of all I've never received any letter or documents in the mail stating that I owe anything like this nor did I receive a mini-Miranda stating that I would be summoned to court so I told this Cody Adams that I'd like for them to delete my information immediately and to stop calling harassing me and my husband with this nonsense. They guy said he would tranfer me over to someone else who could help. So I waited to be transferred and they hung up on me. So unprofessional and not like a normal collection company. I was pissed so I called back at the same exact number and another guy answered saying that he's with a company called GLOBAL SOLUTIONS. I said wait what?? Your guy earlier said you were wit Global Service Group and now your saying you're with Global Solutions. They guy immediately got defensive and said it's the same company ma'am. I said that's ridiculous you guys are scam artist and he said no we are a legit company I said thats [***] because a legit collection company does not hang up on you if they're legitimately trying to collect a debt, they also don't have two separate company names for the same company, and they also don't randomly call you threatning to arrest you or send you to court without first sending out the proper documentation like a letter from the company containing the company's actual address and contact information and also on that letter would be the debt you owe in exact amount, the company you owe it to and they're contact information. Then you would also receive a letter stating that you will be summoned to court regarding this matter as well. All of this of which I NEVER received. I only got threatening and harassing calls from these very rude & nasty people. Then when I proceeded to get defensive from being irritated with this entire situation they said they put me on the "refusal to pay list" and that I will have my day in court! Lol wtf okay. These people are ridiculous and a scam refusal to pay my ass...if I legitimately owe a debt I will pay it before it even got to a level like this.  So ya thats how I know it was a complete scam. They will threaten you say you will be arrested, go to court, have your wages garnished. Its all [***] don't believe these people and especially don't give them any of your bank account information and please DO NOT pay these people a dime. Its not a real company!! I've contacted a Debt Law company regarding these harassing calls and threats and the paralegal called the number herself and she was even hung up on and given the go around. So please don't pay these people or answer any of their calls. Once again they go by either GLOBAL SERVICE GROUP OR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, and the phone numbers I have been getting calls from them are 888-796-6879 and also 919-328-3167.

Its funny how when you call these people at either number there's no introductory recording before being transferred to a representative in which the company introduces themselves by stating their name, who they are and what they do and then thanking you for calling them before being able to select a option and be transferred to a representative. NOPE, you call either one of these numbers it doesnt even ring, you just automatically hear like 2 seconds of music and then some random person answers and says... hello can I help you. They dont even say thank you for calling so & so...or who they are. Wtf! Just don't waste your time with these people & especially please don't waste your well earned money on scams like these!! Save yourself

Called stating he was from a Mediation Firm and I owed a past amount which I did not pay and if I did not pay or set-up a
payment plan they were going to take me to court immediately and he was my last hope in resolving this matter.
I needed to pay or set-up a payment plan with a debit card or go to court.  Very rude and harassing!!
Named Phil Shaw at 888-796-6897 provided a case number and said to call him anytime.  The first call that I
received was a lady's voice stating someone would be on the other line immediately resolve this matter.