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The guy, "Don Jacobs" called me and scared me into thinking I was going to have process servers at my door. I told him I would agree to his terms. But, I later Googled the number 866-676-2139 and found out this is a scam. He called me today and I told him to forget about. He threatened me that people would come kick my door in. He called me a whack-job. He was very abusive and angry, when I told him they are scammers.

My daughter's mother -in -law was contacted and told that my daughter must call within three hours or be served with a lawsuit. M-I-L frantically called my daughter and was ready to pay any outstanding debt she might have in order to avoid a lawsuit. My daughter and I called the number and when I asked who they were, I was told they would tranfer me. I demanded they identify themselves and they hung up.  Called back and told them they had just hung up on me and they said I was the one who disconnected the call.  I was transferred to a LOGAN WILLIAMS. Williams was hesitant to identify his business.  Finally stated he was with Maple Filing Service in Corona, California.  He stated a summons would be served on my daughter.  I asked him to identify the company filing suit and he said it was for a 2002 debt with Associated Visa and the penalties and interest amounted to like $4000 on a card that originally had a $400 limit!!!  I told him he would need to provide written proof of the original debt and that he must never again contact M-I-L or anyone else regarding any matter on my daughter's behalf.  Williams became hostile, began yelling and told me that they had never contacted M-I-L.  I told him never to contact my daughter again or a legal suit would be filed against him and Maple Filing Service.  He yelled that since I knew so much, I could just get off his phone.   My daughter has been the victim of these unscrupulous collectors for four years regarding this "account".  You get rid of one and they sell it to another agency and the cycle continues. Anyone has yet to produce any documentation to support any of their claims - all scams to try to scare people into paying something they dont owe.

Got the same phone call this morning from a Marco Mendez.  They actually called my parents who live 30 hours away.  We also had a call like this from a "David Merdock" back in April.  First of all, when my husband supposedly applied for this "Payday Loan", we were not married but yet I'M being investegated as well.  There were several "collectors" who we spoke to with the last names of "Sanchez", "Mendez" and "Lopez", do you see a trend...very creatize if I must say.  

My husband and I found out the best way to get rid of these idiots were to keep calling and messing witht them.  They told my husband, " you should have stayed in Iraq because you are worthless.", and then hung up.  

How these ignorant, SOB's got my or my husband's information is beyond me but we contacted our Local Law enforcement and The Ftc.

"Spell checker", you're going correct people on spelling when you type words like "c'mon"?!?!
Really, get back to your desk and make some more fraudulent phone calls. You are worthless and probably illegal, and that's why you can't get a real job! Go back to Mexico you SOB!!!

"Low Life Losers" huh?  How about you find a job that isn't stealing from others.  That would be a good start.  Second, before you start talking about our country and acting so patriotic and concerned about the debt, take your ass to your local recruiting office and actually DO something for OUR country.   Nevermind, you can't join when you're illegal, considering the names of these idiots who call are Sanchez, Menendez, Lopez, and Hernandez.  Maybe our laws are getting better and being more enforced, seems to me you can't get a job earning a honest salary.  So, before you want to start calling people "Low life losers", take a look at yourself in the mirror and step back and reevaluate your life.  

I laugh at your uneduacated, ignorant ass!!

This company called my parents house this morning with the same message as above, their phone number, a case number and a name.  They said if I didn't call back within 2 hours they would have no choice but to serve me.  I called then back to find out what it was in reference to and they popped off with some old account that wa fraudulently opened online by my former roommate and I have records of the being disputed.  I do not have a credit card to my name and have not for years!  After exchanging some choice words back and forth the yahoo on the other end of the phone told me that I did this to myself, I was a theif and a deadbeat, it was against the law to not pay my bills... Etc.  He told me he was coming to my house to have me arrested and serve me with the "lawsuit" so I told him to bring it and I would have the police waiting at my house for him.  He said good let me talk to them and you will be out in handcuffs and arrested.  Guess who never showed up?  I held up my end I the bargain and had the police at my house.  After I am done filing complaints with the FTC, California Attorney General and Texas Attorney General offices this yahoo wont be serving anything other than fries.

MAPLE FILLING SERVICE ACTUALLY HELPED ME OUT. THEY WERE VERY ACCURATE WITH EVERYTHING. PEOPLE JUST NEED TO HANDLE THERE BUISNESS. BE MATURE!!

Lmao Haha...and they continue to monitor this website! !!

Agree, or maybe it is an enormous coincidence that all the pro collection post are written in UPPER CASE!  LOL!!!

My daughter got a call from these people yesterday (6/21) and called me at work all upset. A "process server" called and stated the same thing everyone else on this site has written. He said that the debt was for $400 plus interest and penalties. He said he called her at work because they did not have her address. The "server" also stated If she met and paid him $100 as good faith money the suit would be stopped. He gave her the same number that everyone else has. I told her not to send or give anyone anything. When she called the number she got a guy named Logan Williams who told her it was for a pay day loan taken out in June of 2005.  He promised to make the suit go away if she sent $100 and set up a payment plan. I told her to decline and she did. There was no offer to show proof of loan, name of pay day loan company etc.

My daughter says she never took out a pay day loan and told Williams that he was just going to have to sue her. He said that he will.

They called back today and she requested their address and Williams gave it as 1284 Pierce Ave. suite 231, Riverside, CA 92504, not the 1191 Magnolia listed in a previous post. According to the Attorney Generals for California website, a letter written to the company requesting no contact will suffice to put them on notice not to call again.

Interesting note here, I checked the web site for Superior Court in Riverside County and surrounding counties and , for a small fee, ran my daughters name. No filing was made for a suit against her in Riverside or surrounding jurisdictions. I checked my state court website in Maryland and nothing has been filed anywhere here either.

It seems to me that if you have a apply for a payday loan they would also have your home address, bank account info etc.  She lives in the same house that she grew up in.

Last but not least, the Statute of Limitations in Maryland is three years.

If you're keeping score, there's also "WHAT YOU WANT TOO". That should be 'to', not 'too'. ;-)

And you are a troll. Your point?

Just got a call today in Texas looking for my husband. They would not tell me anything about the case or which court the docket number was filed through. Kept insisting my husband call this number to get more information and that they were a process service division and my husband had legal documents to be signed. They said they needed to serve him a court ordered summons. It was Lynn Smith with Litigation Department. I called my county courts and no one had ever heard of the type of docket number that I gave them. The digits were not even anything like the courts used. I then searched this number and found these posts and realized after a few hours of frantic concern that this was just another scam on some old credit card debt we had for over 7 or 8 years ago. Anything over four yrs in Tx cannot be filed in a civil lawsuit. Plus, a lawyer I contacted regarding the call said that normal process servers show up at your door first. They do not call and ask you when you might be home.

My mother got a call from them yesterday in Florida looking for my dead beat ex AND then asking questions about my children! SO glad I found this site with this feedback. They threatened to drag me to jail and him too. could really care less about what happens to him. It is from a old credit card in his name only and only his social security number. Thank you all for posting your information and making me feel much easier.

This company will have charges of harassment if they keep calling my work~~

"Kick your door in" is a physical threat, i.e. assault.

Contact the Riverside office of the FBI.

The Corona Scam is an extortion racket.

The calls are intended to intimidate people into paying unowed fake "debts".

Threatening to drag you to jail, and asking questions about your children, over some old credit card that was only in your ex-husband's name, has nothing to do with debt collection.  It is an implied physical threat against you and your children, intended to threaten and intimidate you into paying them off.

They could not have found out how to find either you or your mother from the information associated with any legitimate debt.  They would have to look that up, through some skip-trace database, and your experience shows that they use that information for purposes of intimidation and making threats.

Contact the Riverside office of the FBI.

The Corona Scam uses at least 30 names, with mail drops in and around the city of Corona, CA, including Lake Elsinore, Riverside, and Fullerton, often at UPS Stores.  As they get too many complaints under one of their names, they have to keep adding new names to continue the scam.  

800notes and simlar sites have presented a problem to them from the begiinning, as consumer can trade reports of their activities, so they have long targetted such sites with shill posts, pretending to be "whiney deadbeats" who were "sued" and their "wages garnished", or "grateful debtors" who "settled" and got a good deal.  In some cases, you can find their shills as the first postings against new numbers, implying they are legitimate and "sue".

The various names include terms like "Filing Service", trying to pretend they are "process servers" calling to "serve a summons" or that they have "sued", while claiming they aren't "attorneys" or "debt collectors" that would be subject to federal and state laws like FDCPA.  Several of their LLCs have been sued many times in federal court (see justia.com to search on their names).

It is all BS, at many layers.

Most complaints report these "process server" calls to relatives or employers first, apparently aimed at panicking the victims.  Most also report the alleged "debts" are apparently fake, or that they have errors in information on some old account, or that they are trying to collect on an old account that was already paid off, and even that this has been verified with the original creditor.  Many also report finding credit inquiries a couple days before the calls started, which would have given these scammers access to some information on old accounts to use in this con.  It would also have given them the current address of the targetted victims, which makes the many "process server" calls to relatives across the country not credible, clearly an act.

All the efforts at implied threats and deception also point to attempting to collect on faked "debts".  Legitimate debt collectors are required by law (FDPCA)  to send a letter within 5 days of first contact notifying consumers of their right to dispute and request verification (validation or proof obtained from the original creditor).  No complaints against the Corona Scam are reporting receiving this legally required letter, even though a number of consumers have reported that on calling the scammers, they had various excuses, from "we sent that to you 45 days ago" to "we aren't debt collectors, so we don't have to send it", to "that information is already at  the attorney (or judge)", etc.

Most of these fake "debts" are allegedly "credit card accounts", although there have been some reports of "delinquent taxes", or "payday loans".  No one (other than shills) hase reported receiving any "proof" the debts are real.  At most, some report receiving some "settlement offer", often by email, only occasionally by mail.  There has been at least one report of receiving what appeared to be court documents, but missing any actual case number or indication they had been filed in any court.

If you are being threatened by this scam, contact FTC, your state Attorney General, and the Riverside office of the FBI.

That is what you want victims to believe, shill.

"Maple Filing Services" is just one of at least 40 names used by the Corona Scam.

They also make shill posts trying to portray their fake "debts" as real.

Contact the FTC.