888-281-3921

Scumbag debt collector that has the wrong person but they contune to call

Its actually a scam number

Everyone is the wrong person. This is a scam period. They wanted me to call back and enter my phone number though they had my number. Google Voice scam or something. I hung up on them and blocked their number. Plus the guy (foreign accent) said a debt was received from an attorneys office and they've been trying to track me down. I've lived in the same house for 30 years and I feel if I owed a huge amount to a creditor they would already have my address, etc. The guy asked me to call back and speak with an attorney and then said he would go downstairs to monitor the call?? He had already said his office was referred to him by said attorney and then suddenly he's in the same office. Makes no sense at all. Fishy, fishy, fishy... Watch out people. If you get a bad gut feeling from a call like this, listen to it. You're probably right.

These criminals call and use a slightly incorrect name then make a threat of "action" against you. The number they want you to call is 888-281-3921. They do not identify who they are or who the original creditor is. Clear violations of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act . Report the number to the FTC. Any company name they may give is fake. An underground company hired to harass debtors

One of the tricks they use is to call your family, friends, neighbors and/or places of employment (past or present or both) to create panic and embarrassment so that their intended victim calls them so that they can scare that person into paying extortion money.  They will usually also state information that would be illegal for a real debt collector to state to department and tell them that you are a deadbeat who does not pay their bills. They often call people that have never even been a third party such as that you are being sued, that you owe money to someone, etc. They threaten that if you do not call them back, they will contact your HR associated with you because they get erroneous information off the internet.

The fake process server/location finder extortion SCAM usually consists of the following:

They mention that they have received a Fax document or some sort of complaint and that there is a pending legal matter or action about to filed against you to create the sense of urgency. They tell you that they are a “process server” and cannot give you the particulars of the case since the file is sealed. This is simply ruse to get you to call another number (often with a made-up case number) where they will ask for money to “make it go away” (this is actually the same place, they work in teams, one pretending to be the server, and the other usually pretends to be a lawyer). They threaten to serve you at home or at work. They tell you that if they serve you at work then they will need a supervisor, security, or HR person there as a witness, hoping that will cause you to panic over the alleged embarrassment of being served at work. They also tell you that you will need two forms of ID. None of which is true. Process servers do not ever call ahead so that you can dodge them. Process servers get paid to serve papers, nothing else. They certainly are not going to pass up a paycheck by telling you that you can avoid being served, they are not going to give you an extra day or even a few hours to get a “stop order”. Court documents are time sensitive and must be served within a certain amount of time. Remember that you can always call the local courthouse to see if there really is a lawsuit that has been filed against you.

It is incumbent upon them under the law to prove that the debt exists and that you owe it, and (this is the important part) that they have the legal right to collect it. You are not obligated under the law to prove that you don’t owe or that it is paid.

Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter, email, or text (postmarked in the case of a letter) within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt. Unless they have communicated it to you verbally at the beginning of your conversation. It also must contain the “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes. The one other important thing that this communication must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days of receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified. If and when you get that communication you should immediately send that debt validation letter by certified, return receipt mail.

First, you should make a complaint at this Federal Agency, and while there you should also read up on how debt collection is supposed to work as well as what your rights in this matter are: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices: https://800notes.com/faq/attorney-general

A message was left in my voice mail from a private number saying there was a legal action pending against me and to call the 888-281# they said this is the Bechmann law firm and said I owed 1400 to Shaws Jewelers. I told him that you have the wrong person I haven't shop at Shaws in 12 yrs. Caller stated speaking aggressively and told him you will need to provide paperwork, he told that is not his job, his job to to inform me of the debt and collect payments and I told him no proof of debt no payment. Then he began to raise he voice aggressively and I hung up. I called back to get firm's address to write a complaint but there was no answer & no answering machine to leave a message.

They called a number I don’t used anymore and left a message saying someone filed a complaint against me I need to hurry up and call back in 47 hours

At hour 48 the complaint turns into a pumpkin and the lawyers turn back into rats, their native form.

Was this (risibly) during Labor Day weekend?

} told him you will need to provide paperwork, he told that is not his job, his job to to inform me of the debt and collect payments

"Fine then, please transfer me to the paralegal who preps all the dunning letters so I can ask where mine got to."

Yeah, that would'a popped his fuse. You're not getting paper mail from them, they don't want any from you, collection laws be damned.  No complaint reaching them would cause any damage unless it's bundled with a Summons, another item that extortionist collectors have no plan to send.

The message was confusing and did not get to the point of the call. Possibly scam related.