813-863-1962

they said We owed a debt to a credit card from 2005 and we should pay to stay out of court or
and they would put a lien on our accounts if we did't pay. We did't know the company they said we owed

They knew our address name and date of birth.
We contacted our local sheriff's office
Don't call them scam

There have been a number of fake "debt collection" scams run out of Florida.
Contact the Florida Attorney General.

In addition, contact the Texas Attorney General.
Texas requires out of state debt collectors to be licensed and bonded.
If these scammers are not, they are already in violation of Texas law.

There have been a number of fake "debt collection" scams run out of Florida.
Contact the Florida Attorney General.

Also contact your state Attorney General.

A "restraining order" is what you get when someone accuses you of threatening them.

These creeps are just trying to threaten you to scare you into paying them.
They don't even have the legal language right, which is one clue that this is a scam.

Legitimate debt collectors will send you a letter notifying you of any alleged debt, and of your right to dispute it.  They are required to do so by a law known as FDCPA.

You can never trust any stranger calling you on the phone.

Report each call.

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I received a call from "Special Investigator" John Archer, who said (I'm calling) I'm contacting you in
regard to a complaint being filed against me persuant to a claim affidavit # KUA1062 where you have
been named as a respondent in a court action and must appear. There is a contact # on file which
you must call. The Litigation Dept. # is (813) 863-1962. Please forward this information to your
attorney in that the order to show cause contained in the restraining order. You or your attorney have
24-48 hours to oppose this matter. (The affidavit # & Litigation Dept. # were repeated.) Please
respond to this call in a timely fashion. When I tried to contact the number, I was put on hold until
the next agent was available. The time was after 7 p.m. in Florida. After a while I gave up waiting
and hung up. I suspected this was a scam and on further investigation, I came across all the previous messages. I'm going to try to contact the FBI & the Florida Attorney General about this.

I was told the same thing. They actually called my brother and my mother trying to get in contact with me. I went immediately to my local sheriff's dept. The deputy helped file a complaint with the FBI. They are well aware of what these people are doing. Hopefully, they will be stopped soon.

I too received this call from 813-863-1962 from a "Bettsie Young". The irony is that I am in law enforcment and one of my specialties is scams. Needles to say I researched the number and the ball is rolling. Do not fall for anything these people have to say!

My husband got this same type of call!!  It was back during Christmas...  It was a woman who left the message but she never gave her name or the name of the company she was with.  She said her call was in regards to a pending court case against my husband in our county.  She said it was a time sensitive matter and he needed to return her call immediately.  The part I really remember is her ending the message with something like "Good luck to you".  My husband and I both thought the message was very questionable mainly because the woman never gave her name or the name of the company, and if there was in fact a pending court case any communication would have been via a letter.. My husband did a reverse look up on the number and found it belonged to a company in FL and there all these complaints about it belonging to a scam... So we deleted the message and put it out of our mind.  Well last night my husband got a message from his aunt who said she had received a call from a man named Dave with the same type of info regarding my husband!!!  How would they know my husband's aunt or her info??  They don't have the same last name nor do they live in the same town...  It's scarey knowing these people have access to this much information....

I got a call from these idiots once last year and then again today. They keep calling my mother's house that I haven't lived at for 4 years. They leave the same message throwing out words like "affidavit, restraining order and subpeona" every time. I then call them and tell them "If I have a debt, I'm happy to pay it. Just send me proof."They tell me they can't send me that information because they don't have it. They tell me it's either from a payday loan (never had one) a credit card debt (I have no recollection of this) or a fraudulent claim (???) They then say that the sheriff has tried to serve me with a subpeona twice to an old address of mine. I tell them I'm happy to give my new address and they reply with "Our legal department already has your current information." I then tell them that if they have it, why hasn't the sheriff served me at my home? I find it interesting that they won't let me update my information with them. The reason is it's a scam and they wanna get something out of me today. They don't even TRY and pretend to be legitimate or care that they have wrong information for me. I let them talk more nonsense before I inform them that I'm a law student and before they're gonna throw around the legalese, they may want to look up the definitions. I then inform them that in my state, they notify you of such things by mail-not a shady phonecall and this is a civil action which the sheriff has nothing to do with. I also inform her that when you get served with a court summons, they don't give you a warning phonecall. She then said they'd like to settle outside of court and that's why she's calling. I found it interesting that I'm being sued, and the paperwork is in motion, sheriff is waiting to serve me, yet they'll just stop it all right now if I pay off the debt.  She then said she'll send me the information I've requested (even though she didn't have the information 2 minutes ago) to my CURRENT address, and Good Luck with your court case. Don't even call these morons back. I just hope no one is dumb enough to give them their bank information.

All i can say is wow i just got this same call what does a restraining order have to do with a debt collection company I have no problem staying away from them LOL

I just got called from this SOBs and they sure ruined my MF day. They told me that they have a complain against me for $20004.90. But some how they were able to contact the company that is suing me and they are willing to settle for 704.26... I asked several times for the account number that they are refering to and she keeps saying that she is not allow to give out that information... hell, is my account... Also, she transfered me to the company's collection office and when I asked her to give me the account number and her phone number so I can call her back with my credit card information, she transfer me back to the first lady...

they left a message for my daughter who i haven't seen in 5 years regarding a restraining order and CALL WITHIN 24 HOURS. called them back this morning and they wouldn't talk to me.  can't get ahold of my daughter because i have no idea where she is

This is the Corona Scam.

They are a bunch of fake "debt collector" boiler rooms operating out of Corona CA, and attempting to con your daughter into paying them for some "debt" she doesn't owe them.  They pull credit reports, and find some old account they pretend is owed to them, since it will sound familiar to their victims.

They use implied threats that they are "suing", like this call to you from a fake "process server", to panic their targets so they are likely to "settle" without any proof they owe the alleged debt.  As in your case, they are usually reported to call some relative first, even though the relative may be across the country, be an ex, or have not had a common address for years.  They use skiptrace services to get this information, so they can do this "process server" act.

If they are calling you, they probably know where your daughter is, since they have pulled one of her current credit reports.  Their call to a relative is NOT because they "can't locate" the "debtor".  It's part of the act.

If you do contact your daughter, warn her that this is a scam.

Report this to the FTC.  They are currently investigating a rash of similar complaints pointing to the Corona area.

This particular number might be from a similar scam in Florida, although one earlier complaint linked it to the Corona operation.  One of the early Corona Scam LLCs also showed some connection to Florida, so the similarity may be more than chance.

Apparently these fake "debt" scams have been so successful that scammers are copying each other.
The details are basically the same:  fake "process server" calls to relatives, supposedly to "serve papers" but really to give the number to call back while making an implied threat, threats of "arrest" or "lawsuits", using information from credit reports, etc.

They violate FDCPA and FCRA all over the place.

It's a con.

I also recieved a call from this Robert Thomas 813-863-1962,stating i had 48 hours to contact him back or a restraining order would be placed on me. I also had a claim number. They also contacted my parents with the same message. So i called back to settle this matter because it scarred me and i never been in trouble before like that. They said i was served papers for a court hearing (which i never did),they also said certified letters been sent and i never received any. So i gave out my debit card number and they took $775.42 that they said i owed. Sad thing is i do owe a for a few credit cards and now seeing all these complaints i am afraid this one was a scam?...can someome help fill me in more?...i dont know what to do?

Called all the numbers back asking why i havent received verification of what i paid for, they kept sending me to the collections department and low and behold i was talking to the same dude the first time...i learned my lesson the hard way. I am reporting this to the FTC.

You have been conned and defrauded.

File a complaint with your local police to document the fraud.

Immediately contact your bank to report the charges as fraudulent, and be sure to block your card number to prevent additional fraudulent charges.  Your bank can reverse disputed charges if you dispute within 60 days of the statement date of the statement showing the disputed charge, under FRB Reg. E for checking account debit cards or other EFT, or under FCBA for credit cards.

"stating i had 48 hours to contact him back or a restraining order would be placed on me."
A "restraining order" is what you get to keep your ex away from you.  They are making up fake legal BS.  They are lying.

"I also had a claim number. "
Which proves nothing.  Anyone can make up meaningless numbers.

"They also contacted my parents with the same message. "
This type of fake "lawsuit" scam always tries to contact relatives to threaten and embarass the target.  It's basically an extortion racket, as they are trying to con money out of you using threats.

"They said i was served papers for a court hearing (which i never did),"
They just made that up.  They are lying.

"they also said certified letters been sent and i never received any."
They made that up, too. Get the pattern?  They are lying.

"So i gave out my debit card number and they took $775.42 that they said i owed. "
That is why they go through this whole act, to get you to fork over money with no proof you even owe them.

"Sad thing is i do owe a for a few credit cards"
So do lots of other people, considering the economic times.  That makes this type of scam easy to pull, with a good chance of payoff even with random calls.  But this type of scam usually targets its victims using some information about your finances.  The Indian scammers use fake "payday loan application" websites, but the U.S. scammers often just pull credit reports and pretend you owe them some old "debt" that sounds like an old account.

Pull your credit reports, and look for recent inquiries under either this name, or some name that you don't recognize as a legitimate lender or creditor.  They usually pull credit reports a couple days before they start harassing calls to relatives.

So my wife just recieved the same call from a John Archer, stating the restraining order and blah blah blah.  Thank you to the folks how have printed the same information on this site because at first we were like what the heck?  Good thing my brother is a federal agent, my next call is to him.  Do NOT respond to the junk coming out of their mouths.