866-751-5465

They called saying someone filed a complaint against me and someone was going to come to my house to serve me legal papers..

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:
Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.

Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.

Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft – charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.

Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate – but you think the collector may not be – contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.

Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.>

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt076.shtm

I got a call today from this number. They had my home address and SS#. They claim that I didn't repay a payday loan and threatened that a company would sue me for over $4000 for a $420 loan..

'Alicia Carter' has called several times, claiming to be from the 'Department of Legal Services'. She says on the message (stumbling over a script she's obviously reading from) that a claim has been filed against me and then provides a case number and the 866 number to call back. If I do not, she threatens to show up at my home and/or workplace to serve me papers. Then says 'good luck'! I don't owe any debts besides my current accounts that are all up-to-date, so what this pertains to is a mystery other than being a scam.

Got a call from someone named "Megan Daniels" stating that court papers were going to be delivered over a debt from a jewelry company. they too had name and SS# and were trying to collect over $7000 otherwise we would be charged as criminals for not paying our debt.

I received a call today from a private number saying that they were from the Department of Legal Services and that someone would be at my door today to serve me legal papers. The number that they gave me to call back was 1-866-751-5465. I looked up the case number on the website for the state and city courts and it does not exist.

I keep getting calls from this place.  But they are calling for a different person.  Tried to call back to tell them to take me off their list, but you always get message box is full.  So I decided to search the phone number and saw all of the notices.  I won't try to call them again.  Hopefully they will give up and quit calling

I just got a call a few minutes ago for a case and there going to come out to serve me papers between 4and 5pm today but won't tell what it's for? I looked up the phone number it says company unknown? This has happened to me before in the past and he insisted I give him my credit card number, when i told him I would send a money order he said we don't accept money orders.I said well if your trying to collect a debt make sure you have all the information before you try and scam me .What does it matter ? Once I told him to stop calling me that I was going to call the police I never heard from them again. I ain;t gonna lie I did get scared . So be careful these people are a joke..

It's  a scam don't fall for it I got the same number to call just right now. I ain't calling and if they do I'm going to tell them I'm calling the police and they will stop, that's what I told them last time.

Got a call from "Inspector Tom Riley" Department of Legal Services telling me that papers were going to be served and that I needed to have photo ID on person.  If I didn't sign these papers that a lawsuit would proceed without me knowing it.  Said if I would call 866-751-5465 before 5 today that he would be able to stop papers otherwise I would be arrested.   Inspector Riley was reading from a script because every time he went to say my name he would have to stop.  Didn't know phone number to call back without reading from a form.  Called number back same person answered but name was now Brian Dunn. SCAN

I got a call and the guy mike told me to call 1-866-751-5465 and gave me a case number and told me to call so he can come out to my house and give me papers but he needed more info from me when I called the number back today it says nothing at all

Called me looking for my exhusband whom I have not been married to for 18yrs. How did they associate my number with him?? They gave me (866) 751-5465 to call back with information as how to contact him if I had any.

Got a message that a Vanessa Johnson from the Department of Legal Services had called in regard to "Legal Documentation filed against you." Called the number back and got no answer. i have left a message for them to return my call and asked them why a Legal Service is calling me from an 866 number (866-751--5465) and thus far, no one has returned my call. Not even this Vanessa Johnson.

Got a call from 866-751-5465 and spoke with a Joseph Lane who gave me his direct number: 512-237-7326 stating that I got until the 30th of September to arrange payments for a payday loan back in March and May of 2011.