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A company called capital partners. A debt collector saying I have an old checking account that closed with Wachovia!!! Are you kidding me!!! Goodbye lady!

They have called me for weeks left msg with a case number saying I have court summons . they have call ever number I'm a associated with my X husband my children my 70 year old parents and my grown children. If I had a sunobs to court I would think a certified letter would come. Does anyone have any other information on this number?.

Criminals are masquerading as debt collectors in an attempt to extort money from people by scaring them into believing that:
a.    You are going to be sued and it will cost you lots of money when they allegedly “win” their case.
b.    That they are about to file criminal charges or that you will be criminally charged (they use the bad check or hot check claim a lot) and go to jail.
c.    That they will take away your driver’s license.
d.    That will garnish your wages without actually being suing you, going to court, or even winning a case and obtaining a judgement followed by a judge’s consent to the garnishment.  They also claim that your wages will be garnished in amounts far above all legal limits.

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 and they can scare that person into paying their extortion money.

They will use the words “Mediator”, “Arbitrator”, “Law Office” or claim that they are a “Lawyer or Paralegal” to make you believe that they are something other than a debt collector want-a-be and that they don’t have to follow Federal and State collection laws, even though they do have to follow those laws, but they won’t.  They also tell you that if you fail to call them back you are "waiving your right to council", which is pretty much nothing but hogwash.

They claim they are officers of the court, or that an officer will accompany them, or even that they are sending officers to arrest you.  All hogwash.  They tell you to lock up your dogs and guns for “everyone’s” protection.  More hogwash.

They use the phrase “govern yourself accordingly” a lot, something they should do themselves.

They mention that they have received a Fax document, to create the sense of urgency and tell you that they are a “process server”. This is simply ruse to get you to call another 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).  Process servers do not ever call ahead so that you can dodge them.  Process servers get paid to serve papers, nothing else.

Read up on your rights here and also make a complaint at this government site:  http://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

They called claiming to be from "United Legal Partners" and providing some case number.  Nothing exists.  If I was being summoned by the courts, I would receive something "legal" in the mail.  BS company for sure.

A "Miss Chavez" left a message for a stranger on my voicemail stating that he had to call by the end of business hours today about a legal matter. She didn't say which business she represented but she did include his supposed case file number. Delete.