844-283-8548
844 area code:
Toll-free
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- lisafile case against me. left voicemail
- SelenaSaid someone was filing a claim against me. Called my father-in-law.
- Caller: ?
- Call type: Scam suspicion
- CWG40If you call that number they ID themselves as "Westwood". Nothing more. Lady said they were a "mediation" firm. Which is scammer double-talk for debt collector. Lady would not give me any more information.
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In any event,
Just because someone on the phone calling you says you owe a debt does not mean you actually owe it.
If a voice on the telephone claims you owe a debt:
1. Demand the person give you his or her name, company name, and address
2. Demand a debt validation letter by US mail. E-mail no good.
3. Do not pay the collection agent or anyone else a dime until the debt is validated
Of course they won’t do this, no scammer ever will, so simply ignore them and block their calls.
If they are bothering you, report them:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection (Threatening civil proceedings with no intent to follow through, or threatening criminal process in order to collect a civil debt is a violation of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.) The same goes for endless telephone harassment
Note that the US Supreme Court in the Case of HENSON ET AL. v. SANTANDER CONSUMER USA INC., has recently ruled that the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act do not apply if the creditor owns the debt in question. As a practical matter this probably won't effect the kinds of scam debt collectors who often show up on 800notes. The scam collectors don't give you any information about themselves so it is impossible to know whether or not they in fact "own" the debt in question. Most do not send debt validation letters and many often say they are collecting for someone else. So, make the complaint anyway if they are bothering you. Let the FTC sort it out.
Also contact your local attorney general
If they continue to bother you, and you know you do not owe any money, tell them that you know this is a debt scam and that you are making a complaint to the police for extortion. Once you get a copy of the police report and they call you again , just read out the file number and the name of the PD or Sheriff’s office involved. Tell them you’ll be glad to send a copy to them at whatever address the jack***es are working out of now.
You'll probably have to yell at them and talk over them.
You have to get tuff with these people because, being akin to thugs, brute force is (metaphorically speaking). the only thing they understand.- Caller: Informational post
- okie| 1 replythis number called my sister saying that I had 2 cases pending against me and that i needed to call "the legal department" to resolve the issue. I called my local district court the alleged case number they gave was in no way even close to an actual case number. Then the next day I get a phone call from my area code, went straight to voicemail. This individual was threatening to come to my house and/or place of employment to serve me document which i needed to sign and that i needed to provide 2 forms of ID when i was met with the paperwork. I then turned around called an attorney and the attorney told me that is was indeed a scam. This is totally B/S waht people are doing nowadays
- Caller: 8442838548
- jd replies to okieI received the exact same call with my local area code and they said the "same words" as spoken to "okie"! I am going to block their number because they have called me before saying the "exact same thing"!!
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