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Called from someone's 'legal department' and said that they were going to serve me some papers at work. The guy left a name of Eric Kennedy and said I may want to reroute this to my home so they dont have to go to my workplace. Did not say the name of a company or who wanted to serve me papers???

I had a guy named "Anthony" with no last name give me the same comments. Though I asked many times where he was calling from, he refused to give me the information.....called me an "egg shell". Asked to speak to someone else that was not condesending nor rude....transferred the phone to another guy named "Roy Fischer". Though I asked numerous times where they were calling from, they refused to let me know where they were calling from. Hung up on me as I continually asked for the information. They continually threatened to come to my work to "serve me".

Left a message on my dad's answering machine with this number and a "case number".  

Returned call did not identify the name of the organization, and when I asked for the person that left their name, said there was no one there by that name and asked for my case number.

Gave the case number and he asked me why I had an attitude.  Said my attitude was a result of their threatening messages.  

He responded with "you're being sued; doesn't that matter to you."  

I asked what jurisdiction I was being sued in and by whom, and that I had a feeling he was a debt collector using an illegal scare tactic, and he said, "you obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning" and hung up on me.  

Fabulous!  I REALLY wish I had a name of them or the organization to report this.

i recieved a letter at home telling me i had 30 days to respond to these [***] and right now im barely making ends meet,well about a month and a half later processor shows up at my place of bussiness and humilates me and served me in front of customers!! is this legal?? now they have started to attach my wages to recover money for judgement and now am forced to move out of my apartment with my parents!! i thought obama helped with this [***]?????

Saw something in comments on Bank of America and this may be them threatening me, since they called my son and would be the only source for his cell phone number.  They were my bank and financed my 2003 auto but was unable to continue pmts. so turned it in personally to bank.  All pmts. were current.  Got a notice that it sold for about $1,900 more than was owed but later got a bill from them for close to $2,000 which was for transport, storage, various handling fees and repairs (new tires).  Had no dents or scratches and 35,000 miles. My pmts. had been taken automatically from my acct. and they took another pmt. before it was sold at auction.  I immediately closed my acct. at their bank.  Also others did so when they advertised for illeal aliens to open accts. at their bank here.  If they can pull this sort of a rip-off would not doubt this call came from them.  Maybe Obama is teaching them a few things.

im really upset and can someone help me,these guys filed a law suit against me and my x husband which im no longer with over a credit card and hes the one that used the card and he put my name on it at the time we were married and i didnt use the card once now they are looking at liening my property here in california with my new husband to recover the moneys owed that has nothing to do with him but they said that since i was on account and the property is in my name too that they can do this.now i have a $13,000 lien on my house and my xhusband wont help me pay this and it was in the divorce agreement.PLEASEEEEE HELP

I received a phone call from PMG about 2 days ago and was told I owed them $465. When I asked what the debt was and when it was taken out (I was divorced 2 years ago and my ex-wife and her new hubby took out some credit in my name) I explained the situation to them and was told "We hear BS excuses like that every day, and I should man up and just pay my F'ing bills!" When I asked for more then LeRon's last name and a supervisor I was hung up one. I received a phone call today from my local county process servers office and was told I was being sued for a debt and the company suing was PMG. A search turned up the following on PMG (this was taken from their website):

Baycorp was founded in 1956 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. In 1973 the company expanded into the Bay of Plenty region, hence the origin of the name 'Bay'. The successful expansion of the company led to a listing on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in 1986. In 2001 Baycorp Holdings merged with Data Advantage to form Baycorp Advantage with dual listings on the Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges.

On 1 July 2006, Trans Tasman Collections (TTC) purchased Baycorp Advantage's debt collection business in Australia and New Zealand. TTC is a consortium consisting of Allco Equity Partners and DB Capital Partners. The new ownership delivers a committed and experienced board, strong financial backing and a clear future direction for the trans Tasman client base of Baycorp's debt collection business.

In July 2006, TTC also purchased Portfolio Management Group (PMG), a Sydney based debt collection business established in 1997, which focuses on the consumer debt purchase market.

Both the Baycorp collection business and PMG trade under the 'Baycorp' brand.

While Baycorp is no longer part of the Baycorp Advantage group, the company maintains strong commercial links with the Credit Bureau, allowing Baycorp to manage its clients' credit reporting and default listing requirements.

Hope this helps someone....

called me and said I was being sued and needed to come up with 1400 right now!!!Or I would go to jail.I dont even live in that state any more havent for a year never been served said they could make it a fellonie???????They said banks no longer have to take you to court they can just bring charges up on me?

I received a call from a person stating that I would be served papers tomorrow between 9-4.  They do have my address on record. Knew the name Julie my mother, and one of the Socials was mine they read off.  They were EXTREMELY RUDE!
I called the number and the they threw 3 social security numbers out one was one mine.... stating that I owe 5000 dollars... I believe this is related to that case we got that letter from a while ago. About non-payment on that MasterCard I never had! From 2002. One name they said I used was Daniel McCormick, I wouldn't have called but they called and I answered. The guy was a complete a**hole.   PMG - Who are these fu**ers?

I just got a call from these people. The guy said that I had a complaint filed against me and that it is a time sensitive issue and that I am being sued. Good luck with that. I will not return the call and I will not answer my cell phone especially when it is an unknown number. In this economy these people are insane!! People are not thriving, they are hurting financially!! They never ever give the name of the company they are calling from which they MUST do by law according to the debt collecting laws and they must also be clear and concise that they are a debt collector!! File complaints with your local attorney general and let's get them shut down.

My son keeps taking messages, saying they're calling from my county and I need to call to schedule a time for an officer to serve me a summons.  I called after hours and the message says to leave a message with details and someone will call me back with all my court information.  After reading all these comments, I don't think I'll be calling again.  I have no idea what they could be calling about.  I have an issue with my mortgage company, but these calls began prior to that.

The name of the company is PMG. They are located at 140 North Maple, Corona, CA 92456

Follow this link for address and business license info for PMG. They are [***]!!

http://www.ci.corona.ca.us/index.cfm?section= ... d=579&id=643543

These people called my ex-daughter in law looking for me & I called them when she called me about it. They said i owed over $2k but it had accrued to over $5k & they were going to serve me papers or just take this to court without my presence. I have no recollection of the card they were trying to collect on & they would not give me specific #'s or information & then the "Anthony" I spoke to became loud, screaming & obnoxious asking why I was acting like a victim & that I was irresponsible. I hung up on him. I can't believe anyone could be that unprofessional & seriously think this has to be a phishing scam.

What makes a phone call harassing?

When someone calls and uses obscene or threatening language, or even heavy breathing or silence to intimidate you, you are receiving a harassing call. It is against the law in California and other states to make obscene or threatening calls. (California Penal Code section 653m, Penal Code section 422-422.1)

Search....  http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm

Someone from PMG called my aging parents and said I was going to served papers for an old debt if I didn't settle up right away for an amount many times the original amount!   They were unwilling to tell where/what about these mysterious papers or anything specific about thier 'attempts to contact' me.  I have not recieved anything from this company or heard of them for that matter until the phone call.  They denied calling my parents but they left this number to call back. It appears to be a SCAM to me.  
They appeared to have run my credit report recently (without my consent btw). BEWARE and never ever give out your financial information without throughly checking.

Got a call from a woman that said I was being sumnoned to court. That I was being sued. Said she could not tell me from who. Gave me this number. I called it right away. He said that I was being sued for $3768.50 on Capital One Master Card. I have never owned one! I told him I did not and he got hateful. Started yelling and told me I needed to pay. I told him I had not heard anything about this til now. He called me a witch and I hung up on him. I sat there for a minute and called the number back to see if I could talk to someone else . I gave them my case number and got the same guy. He told me that he had been lied to by better people than me. And to go away. Then hung up. I was shocked. I am not a liar and just wanted to know what this was about. I took this to my lawyer right away and he called the same number with the case number and the guy refused to get on the phone with him and my lawyer told the guy that answers the phone off! Told him we would sue if he ever called me back and the guy answering the phone hung up on him. Huge scam. We need to stop these guys. He had my SS# and everything. If I hear from them again it will be on!! My lawyer is already sending the attorney general of Oklahoma a letter!!

Unless you actually commited a crime like say check fraud, than no they can't make it anything.  All they can do is take you to civil court.  Even if they won a judgement, there would never be jail time as only criminal courts involve jail or prison time.  If they got a judgement it would only mean that the court ruled you legally owed the money.  They would then have to figure out how to get you to pay them or go to court again to file a lien against your assets.  Contrary to popular opinion, they can't just slap a lein on your assets.  They have to take you to court for that as well at a separate hearing.

Also.....When they sue you, they have to sue you in your state of record not theirs.  They could sue you in a different state and obtain a judgement, however it can only be enforced in that state on property in that state.  So they can't get a judgement in say California and then try and levy you in Tennessee.  

They are just trying to scare you into settling on their terms.  Never settle anything over the phone.  Always ask for everything in writing.  Always make them prove the debt as well.  Send them a certified letter giving them 30 days to prove the debt.  If they fail to do so and then take you to court, the case will be tossed out as by law, they have to prove the debt.  Always show up for hearings.  They win by default if you do not.

Yesterday My grandfather called me at work to ask what was going on and if i was any trouble that a man named eric had called and left a message with a 1866-872-6116 with a case number that i was being sued and in trouble and facing charges, so i called the number the first person that answered simply said "hello" i told them why i was calling gave them the case number and they transfered me to a man named ROY FISHER after a heated conversation with this man because he was not giving me any info so that i could verify that this was not fraud he started to read my credit report and asking me questions about where i currently lived and reading off all my past addresses from when i was 13!!! this man is insane and they were out to get me!!! as i have worked in profesional settings my hole life i could tell just by the telephone presentation that some thing was not right this ROY FISHER tried then telling me that he was a attorney i asked for his licensing info and Bar Info he told me that was beside the point and hung up on me!
   After all of this was said and done i called my grandfater back to ask what number came up on his caller ID when they called he told me that it was a diffrent number 1951-256-3755 i called the number and told them i had a missed call from that number they told me it was a home number and if i knew any who lived there! this is fraud!!!!!! my wallet was stolen out of my car two weeks ago and i belive that this is linked to that!!!

Received a call about some kind of legal trouble, after returning the call we got the biggest surprise ever instead of a professional and courteous conversation it was instantly a war of words and insults on their part. They even went as far as saying "we have a personal vendetta against low life scum that doesn't pay their debts". We realized immediately that this was some sort of scam or fraud. But just to be safe we started asking questions like "what is your company's address, there reply was that that info was irrelevant then we asked what state they were from again they refused to answer the question and hung up on us. The stories above are almost exact reflections of our calls from them. This is fraud and they can not do anything they say. best thing to do is contact your attorney if you have one. also contact authorities if the phone calls persist. Certain states have different laws and you need to know the laws of your state before you listen to anything they tell you cause in our case in the state of Texas they can not garnish wages or take your property from you. Hope this helps!!!