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They call and leave me threatening messages every day at my place of employment. I made the big mistake of taking the first phone call, only because I answer phones on occasion.  I will no longer talk to them.  After the research Ive done on what and who they are. The orginal collector has obviously closed it.  This number of Giovi seems to be bottom feeders.  

DO NOT ANSWER OR RETURN THEIR CALLS.

Got a call from this # they call my work and leave message on my voice mail saying this is regarding a cival suite. well guess what I don't work in the office and hardly ever check voice mail I did respond to there call once when they called in april and ask them to send verification by e-mail they never did now I'm getting phone calls again on my work number. Is this a real company should I be worried???

this person rodney giove keeps calling and also called my employer was extremely rude to the person answering the phone , two of co-workers were extremely upset. my question is can i e-mail them and really go on them like cursemthem and do the exact same thing they are doing to me

COnstant calling looking for someone named Laurie Price. Told them I have no idea who she is and stop calling my number every 20minsd every day. I did a little web research on the number it is a law collectror firm outof New York. You might want to go to this web link for more details.

http://www.budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/giove_law_firm.htm

HOPE THIS HELP OTHERS FROM THESE JERK CALLERS.

I have received several calls at my parents home from this company, not only asking for me, but other people with my same last name. I finally called them back and spoke to someone there. While the debt of mine is legit from 5 years ago, they said that they were filing a judgment against me as of Monday, unless I paid a certain percentage of the debt. I then asked him what a judgment was (acting as if I had no idea) and he said he could not give me legal advice. I said I'm not asking for advice, I am asking what you are proposing to put against me. He had no answer... I told them I could not pay anything as I have no money. He then reduced the percentage and told me to pay a smaller amount to them by 4 p.m. that day. I told them to do what you need to do, because I have no money to give you and no assets. He then said to call back when I figured out if I was going to pay for not. Haven't heard from them since. In my experience, if this was a legit law firm, they do not try to work out payment agreements or settlement with debtors. They will strictly serve you papers to take you to court, not try to negotiate with you. This is how I knew something was fishy. I will not talk with them again as I am filing bankruptcy anyways. Just wanted to tell my story for anyone else out there being harassed. Don't let them make you sweat, they can't do anything, but keep putting calls in to you trying to make you break. Don't give them a cent of your money!! If I do for some crazy reason get their so-called "papers" in the mail, I will give you an update, but I'm sure they are fakes..

My girlfriend just got the message on her answering machine. The new name to add to the list of their cohorts is George Wakely.

Company has left very unprofessional messages on my work phone. I called back to request their license number before giving my info out since they use the words LAW OFFICES. The lady that answered was clueless about their license info. This company has called me before using another name....FRAUD!

This place called me and left a message stating that they have legal paperwork in front of them that they are filing with the county for criminal fraud and attempted theft.  Considering I am a teacher, this scared me since any law proceedings can jeopardize my job.  They called themselves GOV Law Offices, although that part was purposely garbled (I had to listen to the message 3 times). When I called back, they said the theft and fraud is associated with my social security number and checking account so I asked them to tell me what those numbers are- and they had no reply.  So, I thought I would do a reverse number search on them and see what this was really about and found this website. People like that are sick!  If these people call you- ignore them or tell them to stop calling and if they continue- file a harrassment charge.  I intend to if this continues.

I am the same person that posted the last one. This place called again and this time gave me the social security number and address of someone else.  When I told them it wasn't my information they had the audacity to ask if I had a father or son with the same name. I don't but if I did, would I really give out that information anyway. This place probably looked up everyone with my name in the phone book and randomly started calling to find this person they are looking for. Since I have a pretty common last name- they must be making a lot of these type of calls to people to find this person who owes them. Is that even legal?

SOME POSTING HAVE GIOVE LAW OFFCES SOME HAVE GOLD

GIOVE IS A KNOWN SCAM AND HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN THIS CASE WITH THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL - they used a process server company that only pretended to serve court summons to people being illegally sued in debt collection cases they cannot prove in court.

Basically the process server company guaranteed they would receive default judgements because NO KNEW THEY WERE BEING SUED!

NY AG Throws Out 100,000 Default Judgments Against Consumers!
« on: July 22, 2009, 10:23:57 am »
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO SUES TO THROW OUT OVER 100,000 FAULTY JUDGMENTS ENTERED AGAINST NEW YORK CONSUMERS IN NEXT STAGE OF DEBT COLLECTION INVESTIGATION

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/media_center/2009/july/pdfs/5015%20Suit.pdf

37 Law Firms and Collectors Named in Lawsuit for Failing to Properly Notify New Yorkers Being Sued for Owing Debt

Cuomo Seeks to Vacate Over 100,000 Faulty Judgments Statewide and Provide Restitution to Victims

New York, NY (July 22, 2009) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced his office has sued 35 law firms and two debt collectors in New York State in order to throw out an estimated 100,000 default judgments improperly obtained against New York consumers. This is the latest action in Cuomo’s ongoing investigation into unlawful debt collection practices.

According to the lawsuit filed yesterday in New York State Supreme Court, Erie County, the companies relied on a Long Island company, American Legal Process (ALP), to notify New York consumers that they faced debt-related lawsuits. ALP, however, failed to properly serve consumers across the state with legal papers, causing thousands to unknowingly default and have costly judgments entered against them without the chance to respond or defend themselves. In April of this year, Cuomo’s Office announced criminal and civil cases against ALP and its owner, William Singler, for this fraudulent business scheme.

Today’s lawsuit is an effort to provide relief to the thousands of consumers facing costly default judgments as a result of ALP’s unlawful practices. The suit asks the court to vacate all default judgments secured against New York consumers in cases in which the firms (1) used ALP to serve legal process in commencing a lawsuit, and (2) the firms are unable to provide the court with any evidence, other than ALP’s affidavit, that proper legal service was made.

“Our legal system is defined by due process and the guarantee that every New Yorker will get the chance to defend his or herself in court,” said Attorney General Cuomo. “ALP’s scheme undermined the foundation of this system and denied thousands of individuals their day in court. Today’s lawsuit is a key step in our efforts to uproot unlawful debt collection practices and undo the considerable harm they inflict on New York consumers.”

ALP, as a legal process server, was hired by high-volume debt collection law firms in New York to serve legal papers, usually a summons and complaint, notifying individuals that they are being sued and must answer the complaint. ALP, however, allegedly engaged in “sewer service,” where process servers take advantage of individuals facing lawsuits by failing to properly alert them and denying them the chance to respond. As a result, tens of thousands of judgments were obtained against unsuspecting New Yorkers, many of whom first learned they were being sued when they found their bank accounts frozen or their wages garnished. ALP covered up the fraud by falsifying sworn affidavits of service in courts across New York.

The law firms and debt collectors sued today then used these false affidavits to obtain default judgments against NY consumers. Between January 2007 and October 2008, these law firms and debt collectors filed more than 100,000 lawsuits in every county in New York State, with the vast majority of the suits being debt collection actions. In a large percentage of the cases sampled and analyzed, the defendants never answered the lawsuit and the law firms sought and obtained default judgments from the courts. In seeking the default judgments, the firms made use of ALP’s fraudulent affidavits that claimed that the individual defendants had been given proper legal notice of the suits.

To rectify ALP’s widespread fraud on New York’s courts and consumers, today’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Honorable Ann Pfau, Chief Administrative Judge of the New York State Unified Court System, invokes the broad remedial powers granted to New York’s administrative judges to correct improperly obtained default judgments. In addition to seeking to vacate all of the default judgments where the sole evidence that the defendant received notice of the suit is an ALP affidavit, today’s lawsuit asks the court to order the law firms and debt collectors to:

   * Inform the New York State Unified Court System of each actions in which they used ALP to serve legal process and in which a default judgment was granted;
   * Notify all the parties in those actions of the existence of this lawsuit and their right to be heard; and
   * Notify the court of amount of any default judgments taken in any of the relevant actions, as well as whether the debtor paid any amount to satisfy the default judgment.

Additionally, where a default judgment is ultimately vacated, today’s suit asks the court to direct that proper restitution be made to any debtor who made payment on an improperly obtained default judgment. The Attorney General’s Office estimates that the average default judgment totaled approximately $5, 474.

Carolyn Coffey, an attorney with MFY Legal Services, a nonprofit provider of free legal services in New York, said: “Over and over again we see hundreds of the most vulnerable New Yorkers -- the elderly, disabled, and working poor -- blindsided by default judgments in lawsuits that they never even knew about until after the cases were over. Our justice system is built on the basic premise that everyone has a right to be heard in court before a judgment can be entered against them, and the debt collection law firms that engage in sewer service deny New Yorkers this fundamental right. MFY commends Attorney General Cuomo for taking these steps to remedy the devastating effects of sewer service, and for sending the message to debt collection law firms that they must comply with the most basic requirements of due process.”

The law firms and debt collectors named in today’s suit are:
Forster & Garbus;
Sharinn and Lipshie;
Kirschenbaum & Phillips, P.C.;
Solomon and Solomon, P.C;
Goldman & Warshaw, P.C.;
Eltman Eltman and Cooper;
Eric M. Berman, P.C.;
Stephen Einstein & Associates, P.C.;
Fabiano and Associates;
Jones Jones Larkin O’Connell;
Panteris & Panteris, LLP;
Zwicker and Associates;
Relin, Goldstein & Crane;
Woods Oviatt Gilman;
Leschack & Grodesnky;
Hayt Hayt & Landau;
Pressler & Pressler;
Jaffe & Asher;
Mullen & Iannarone;
Arnold A. Arpino & Associates;
Houslanger & Associates;
Mann Bracken, LLC;
Smith Carroad Levy & Finkel;
McNamee, Lochner Titus & Williams;
Thomas Law Office;
Fleck, Fleck & Fleck;
Eric Ostrager;
Cohen & Slamowitz, LLP;
Cullen and Dykman LLP;
Winston & Winston, P.C.;
Cooper Erving & Savage, LLP;
Robert P. Rothman, P.C;
Gerald D. DeSantis;
Greater Niagara Holdings, LLC;
Rodney A. Giove;
Advanced Litigation Services, LLC;
and Jason L. Cafarella.

Attorney General Cuomo also announced that as part of his ongoing investigation into fraudulent process servers and debt collectors, his Office is determining which other law firms statewide relied on ALP to serve legal process on New Yorkers facing lawsuits. More than 20 such firms have been identified to date and his Office is notifying those firms of its intent to seek to vacate any default judgments those firms have obtained based on ALP affidavits of service.

This civil lawsuit and investigation is being handled by Assistant Attorney General James Morrissey and Assistant Attorney General Nathan Reilly, in conjunction with Dennis Donnelly, George Danyluk, Aric Andrejko and Dan Johnson of the Internal Audit Unit of the New York State Unified Court System.

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voice message, name of caller garbled,  as was the name of person they are calling. phone did not ring, went straight to VM.
looks like phishing scam

Oh they know, they know your ss# where u live, they know about ur liens and judgments, they even know about ur credit report, don't get these people wrong, it's a prelitigation office, they can recommend to pursue u, the call is just the first step, they need to make sure they are calling the right person 1st of all, then they will send u info threw mail. Don't get it twisted people I work in the legal department for Redline Collections, if debtors don't pay there bills, we can take action, it's called filling out an L7, if u live in a state where ur garnishable or u own a home or a car we can put a lien on them, even seize ur bank account, u'll be put in check systems. First a judgment will go on ur credit report. Anyways if the debt isn't paid in the statute of limitation on the debt the interest will go up an up an up, also u could be looked at attorney fees and court cost to fight the L7. Don't get what I'm talking about? Well you'll find out

Why is it that everyone here who "works in the legal department" of one of these fly-by-night scammer junk debt collectors and swears up and down they are legit always types in ALL CAPS and uses kindergarten level English/grammar?

I constantly recieve calls and voice messages from this number.  The voicemail is so distorted I can't even understand the name they are looking for and the reference number.  But the guy leaving the message says "regarding the recent claim placed with our office and we need to discuss the case with you directly. Our law office had made several attempts to reach you by phone as well as by mail and we have received no response. This matter warns your immediate attention and requires your response TODAY! Contact our office at 1-866-618-5732 and refer to case #..."  Now I have not contacted this person back because I have done this in the past and all they try to do is get more information from me.  Hey, you called me and left a message. Tell me what information you have on me and I can confirm or deny.  Don't ask me questions about what is my number and what is my address and social security number.  And don't call me harrassing me like I know what you are talking about.  They also call my best friend stating that I used her as a reference.  I never used her for any financial reference so no I know they are lying.

it is against federal law to disclose info on ur answer machine

they know ur ss# they know everything about u if if u ow a debt--they cant disclose info on ur answering machine---thats ilegal

ya ur a [***] moran---just pay ur bills.an stop tryen to find ways to get out of dong so,

wow u sound like a scumbag tryn to get out of paying a debt u ow.people take out loans and credit cards max them out and dont pay them back,thats defrauding a company.and what u were refering to was statu of limitations,and just cause they go out of stats dosent mean u dont ow them any more.jus eans u cant be sued.and there are differant laws in each state for that

,they will just keep calling u intil u take care of it.they hav ur ss# and phone # and address.u were probly reciving an automated message from them right?well when u call in give them ur phone # they were callen or case # and they will tell u what its in regards 2.if u dont handle voulintaraly u may go to court depending pn the balance