8009942949

I keep getting harassing phone calls from these people. Latest one was Sunday night 7pm, just got one a few minutes ago 10-20-09 7pm. I'm on the DO NOT CALL LIST! I've read what everyone else has said. I've never received a letter from them that's what's interesting. Just these non-stop phone calls! I was told if your on the do not call list to file a complaint against them. If they are calling your cell phone which they are with me some phones have the capability to block the numbers out.

I also keep getting phone calls from this company claiming "I'm being investigated by state law for check collection" and to call them immediatly. Even though I havn't written a check in years, I recieved threats of my license being suspended if I do not call them back. However, I've tried to call them several times, only to recieve an answering machine. I'm not sure what to do. Is this a scam?

got a recorded phone call last night from 800-994-2949 saying that a CONOCO TOLBERT needed to call that number urgent that it was some kind of illegal trouble... !!??

Is it legal to make collection attempts on a bad check when the business owner was reimbursed fully, including all associated fee's,  and when the matter was reconciled completely? Is it legal to state that you have suffecient credibility and evidence to have a warrent issued for my arrest?

Are you buying "bad checks" in bulk, likely electronically,from banks and/or businesses with no history whatsoever on the individual situations behind them? I imagine that you have a little boiler shop calll center with nothing more to go on other than the information provided on the check itself.  Your claiming that every debt you collect  is legal is not entirely accurate or informed as you have no background information from which to assure an insightful well documented situational accounting of every single check in your posession. Agents stacked like cordwood, one right next to the other, elbow to elbow, knowing nothing except that a check was bad at one point in the past. NOTHING ELSE!

I have yet to decide how to deal with my individual envolvement with your organization. But i can assure you that I'm aware of your little game and frankly...I'm not pleased at all.

I speak for the masses. Bless each and everyone.


Silence Dogood

This information is correct and we been in business since 1964. We attempt to collect worthless checks from people who have passed them to merchants. The cost to merchants on Bad Checks losses exceed internnal theft and shoplifting. Writting a Bad Check on a closed account is considered in most state deposit account fraud. NSF Checks once notified can have the check and evidence sent by the merchant to a DA or Solitiator for criminal proecution or to an Attorney for civil suit.

You may want to look up your laws for writting a worthless check before you just pass a phone call by.

Please call 678-708-0200 so we can remove your number from our files

We don't have a Ms. Gordon that works in our company. However, if you email me the number that was called I can remove it from our system. I can promise you that you will not be contacted again. My email is ronald.mullinax@badchecks.org

If you receiving calls from 800-994-2949 its because you are family member have written a worthless check. Those people that do not pay for these bad checks can be punished under civil are criminal actions. This is no laughing matter and its not fraud you are urged to make the called before matters get worse.

This is an attempt to collect a debt and all information is used for that purpose.

TRY READING THE POST - IDIOT

YOU IDIOTS ARE TRYING TO REACH KATHRYN GORDON by repeatedly calling the WRONG NUMBER.  They are trying to stop the harrassing calls that have nothing to do with them!  

IN SPITE OF TELLING YOU NUMEROUS TIMES THIS PERSON IS NOT AT THE NUMBER YOU HAVE BEEN CALLING - YET YOU IDIOTS CALL IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.


Social skills, education and career orientation are NOT normally the prerequisites for a debt collector – money beggar position.

We only make a few calls and that was why I was asking them to contact me. If its an error we fixed it instantly.

If you are legit please provide

Company name
Address - not PO box
License#
Insurance company that holds your bond

All collection agencies must be licensed and carry a bond in your state. No license - they can collect at all

I too got several calls from these people saying that I would have a warrant issued for me and they were going to tag my DL they also told my 11 yr old daughter that if mommy didnt pay they were coming to arrest her...

These people are terrible and they are violating every collection law out there. I have opened a complaint with the Snellville police where they are located, the FTC, and the BBB in Snellville where they have a F- rating. They also refuse to send me anything in the mail.

Dear Arkansas,

I am also have the same problem with this company and they also refuse to send me anything in writing.  How can get in touch with the Snellville Police, FTC and BBB? any help would be appreciated.

PD, please call  the Snellville Police at 770-985-3555
Also look up the BBB of Georgia and put in this # and you'll get the info
I'm not even 5 minutes from that office!

Snellville PD: (770) 985-3555

Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm

Atlanta BBB: (770) 488-4910

Georgia Department of Consumer Affairs: http://consumer.georgia.gov/02/oca/home/0,247 ... 633D9952E30E813

FYI - For those who are interested you should also take a look at the notes for 800-994-4422.
Tal Lewis Incorporated is a California based Collection Agency established in 1980 and I find it hard to believe that Encore Worldwide Financial and/or America's Network Inc. have been in the debt collection business since 1964 since their collection techniques are against Federal and California State Laws.
First of all I doubt they could find a D.A. that would file criminal charges against anyone for one check that is more then 4 years old. Aside from that they are required to disclose that they are a collection agency, that they are attempting to collect a debt and that all information they obtain will be used for that purpose. But these people are attempting to make it sound like they are from some agency that has the power to have you arrested. I seriously doubt it unless they have some law enforcement agency in their pocket. I suspect it's only a matter of time before they are shut down.

I often receive phishing emails from this company claiming a Rejected ACH transaction. The emails are sent to a domain email that is only available through a contact form on a website. It contains a .zip file and comes from a site called. http://nacha.us

You will also find this interesting http://www.hkpayroll.com/RESOURCES/News/NACHA-Email-Scam-Alert.aspx

http://checksbyencore.com/
http://www.encorefinancial.com/about.html

The number they are using now is 770-978-4958.

Some left a message claiming to be a private detective.

I got a call from these bozos this morning.  Admittedly I had a bad check way back in early 2009 with a grocery store here.  The check was resubmitted and paid way back then, but they never asked me for the returned check fee, so I still had a balance of $25, which this company got their hands on somehow.  I told the EXTREMELY RUDE person on the other end of the line that I wasn't paying a dime until I talked to the store and/or my bank and she almost screamed 'THATS FINE' and slammed the phone down.  She told me if I didn't pay $252.92 (how do you get that number from $25 owed?) there would be legal action and I could go to jail.

So I called the store where the check came from and the lady asked why this company called me.  They ended their agreement with them as soon as they found out this company was threatening their customers and told them to cease all calls.  Long story short, my grocery store has an investigation against them and asked if I could be a contact if the investigator needed me...which I gladly agreed to.  I also gladly paid the $25 that I did owe them because of my mistake.

Long story short, if you know of a returned check out there, its best to call the person/store you wrote it to and talk to them about it than deal with this band of idiots who get their kicks threatening you.  In this case they had no business at all calling me and I hope that this company gets sued/shut down and all the employees that work there now grow hearts and learn to treat people a little better...it's a sad sad bunch.  Check collection is a necessary thing, I understand that...but the threats are ridiculous and every employee and manager there is STUPID for partaking in it...yes, I called you stupid, I can be childish too.

Keep getting a call from this number 1-800-994-2949 and 1-678-708-0200...have called back and told them that the person they said they were looking for does not live here and that I have never known them....still they keep calling.