866-676-2139

They duped my 85 yr old mother out of quite a sum. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your elderly mother has been defrauded.

Your first line of defense in case of fraud is to dispute fraudulent charges through your bank, under FRB Reg. E for checking account EFT or debit card charges, or under FCBA for credit card charges.  Assist your mother in filing the necessary dispute and fraud affidavit with the bank, and also file a fraud complaint with your local police. Get a copy of the police reoprt.

Your bank can reverse disputed charges if you dispute within 60 days of the statement date of the statement showing the disputed charges.  Also, close the account or block the card number to prevent additional fraud.

If they have managed to get past the 60 day dispute period (from the STATEMENT date, not the charge date), then you could sue them.  SOL is 1 year.  Find an attorney who is also familiar with FDCPA and FCRA, since they have violated FDCPA by using deception (claiming an unowed "debt" is owed to them), and FCRA by illegally pulling credit reports (check all 3, they usually pull them a couple days before they start their harassing calls).  Look for an attorney willing to take the case on contingency, and with familiarity in these areas of law, as FDCPA and FCRA allow courts to award attorney fees, FDCPA allows awarding of actual damages, plus statutory damages up to $1000, and FCRA allows awarding of statutory damages for illegally obtaining credit reports without permissible purpose.

FTC is currently investigating them, under their many names and numbers, due to the many complaints pointing to the same area. Contact FTC, at 877-382-4357

In addition, since they have fraudulently targeted your elderly mother, state and federal elder abuse and fraudulent telemarketing laws may apply.  Contact your local DA, who may have a department that handles elder abuse and fraud cases.  Also contact your state AG, and the FBI.

This is a typical Corona Scam shill post.  

Note its style and how it focusses on presenting the impression that the shill wants you to believe.  You can find them in the wild all over 800notes and other similar sites, connected to these fake "debt" collection scams, many of which are run by the same perps under different aliases.

This type is the variety that includes lots of "details", pretending to be "responsible", and portraying them as "legitimate".  You can also see the voice of the shill showing through, in the form of their "rationalizations".

The other major shill species are "greateful debtor", happy to have "settled", and "whiny deadbeat", sorry he didn't "settle" because he is being "garnished".  

Or at least that is what they claim.

Screw you.  Apparently you are one "of them"  YOU spelled"Bottom" wrong so get off you high horse & quit criticizing others for what YOU do!

These scumbags convinced me to allow them to draft a monthly payment from my account.  I allowed them to withdraw their payment ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH until paid in full.  Problem is that last month they withdrew it a week early.  I tried to call them.  Left message at their "corporate headquarters" & got no return call.  My recourse, then, was to change my credit card number so they cannot access my account again.  Lots of luck trying to collect any more from me!!!

It would be a fatal mistake for one of them to ever kick my door in. Thats why I carry handguns and pratice with them.

I have been getting these calls for about 2 weeks. They state I am beeping served for an HSBC credit card from 2006 with a 300 limit, but I owe 2478. 1250 is for filing and court cost, and the rest is penalties and interst. Sounds like a scam to me since I have not had this card in 7 years.

A "letigation office" calling about a debt for anb classic that I was going to be served papers because of a debt from 1999 and my "malicious intent to defraud the company". Called from a different but gave me the 8666762139 number as the credit companies line of contact. Ridiculous. They did have the last 4 digits of my social so I'll be watching my credit reports extra hard for a while.

An actual Process Server is not going to have any conversation with you about any debt you owe, nor will they demand payment from you. If something like this happens, immediately call local law enforcement and make a full report including as much descriptive information as you can give them of the person impersonating a court officer.

http://www.bbb.org/blog/2012/03/beware-bogus-process-servers/