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This number called my family claiming I was being sued for check fraud. When I asked for an address they gave me a P.O box. When I asked for their name they said ARA but it doesn't stand for anything. When I asked for a supervisor she was really nasty and called me names and hung up.

Received a call with the caller ID blocked. The message said that my name was on some legal documents on a civil suit about to be filed for some person I don't know and left this number to call and a case number. Sounds like a scam to me. I'm not calling them back and blocking their number.  They did not leave the name of the company.

I got the same call from the same number and the lady did not want to give the company and would not give and address she got very defensive when I started asking questions

These people are calling my family members harassing them saying that I'm being sued for check fraud.

received voicemail  from this lady who identified herself from their litigation department and this was their last attempt to contact me on check fraud. She advised that this was their last attempt to reach me but going to send a legal letter to my employer.....they must don't know the proper process.  I know i didn't do any check fraud---so i will block this number.

Criminals masquerading as debt collectors attempt to extort money from people by scaring you into believing that you will be criminally charged (they use the bad check or hot check claim a lot) and go to jail, lose your driver’s license, have wages garnished without actually being sued or going to court, 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 family, friends, neighbors and/or places of employment (past or present or both) to create panic and embarrassment so that their intended victim calls them and they can scare that person into paying their extortion money.  They will use the words “Mediator”, “Arbitrator”, or “Law Office” to make you believe that they are something other than a debt collector want-a-be and that they don’t have to follow Federal and State collection laws.  They do have to follow those laws, but they won’t.  They mention that they have received a Fax document, to create the sense of urgency.  They also tell you that if you fail to call them back you are "waiving your right to council", which is pretty much nothing but hogwash.  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 where they will ask for money to “make it go away” (this is actually the same place, they work in teams, one pretending to be the server, and the other usually pretends to be a lawyer).  Process servers do not ever call ahead so that you can dodge them.  Process servers get paid to serve papers, nothing else.

Read up on your rights here and also make a complaint at this government site:  http://www.consumerfinance.gov/

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