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What state do you live in?

Here is the GA Corporate Registration on this Outfit

Company Name    North Center Collections Inc
Company Agent    Lamar Snow
Company Status    Active/Compliance
Business ID        2131561
Control Number    15109976
Company Type        Domestic Profit Corporation
Jurisdiction        Georgia
Incorporation Date    19 November 2015 (1 year ago)
CEO    Lamar Snow, 4319 Covington Highway, Decatur, GA, 30035
Principal Office Address    4621 Grand Central Pkwy GA, 30035

So let me get this straight.  You talked to an attorney, who probably charges several hundred an hour, but can't pay back your loan.  He advised you to sign a wage garnishment agreement?  He didn't advise you of your rights under the FDCPA?  Hmm, not only is it time for a new lawyer, but to sue him for malpractice as well.  Of course all of that assumes that you actually talked to a lawyer, which I doubt.

I am so glad to see this! I just got a call from these people and they sounded very sketchy! I could get no real information from them at all. I questioned everything the girl said to me and eventually was transferred to some guy who apologized and said the woman was "new" he refused to provide me any information at all via writing and told me that Aarons had sent me everything already and the burden was on me to prove I paid for my merchandise. If I didn't have every receipt from payments then I was going to have to pay what they said I owe (about $600) I advised him I was going to talk to an attorney and to call me back.. I am certainly glad to know this is NOT legitimate!

I just got a call from this company they have been threatening me to garnish my paychecks. Did this turn out to be a scam?

Yes it is a scam.  No debt collector can garnish anyone's wages.  It takes a court order to garnish wages. ANd that would be as part of an ongoing civil case.
Wage garnishments are strictly controlled by state law.  Some states do not allow them.

This is a scam meant to scare money out of you.  Don't fall for it!

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Just because someone on the phone calling you says you owe a debt does not mean you actually owe it.

If a voice on the telephone claims you owe a debt:

1.    Demand the person give you his or her name, company name, and address
2.     Demand a debt validation letter by US mail.  E-mail no good.
3.    Do not pay  the collection agent or anyone else a  dime until the debt is validated

Of course they won’t do this, no scammer ever will, so simply ignore them and block their calls.

If they are bothering you, report them:

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection (Threatening civil proceedings with no intent to follow through, or threatening criminal process in order to collect a civil debt is a  violation of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.)  The same goes for endless telephone harassment

Note that the US Supreme Court in the Case of HENSON ET AL. v. SANTANDER CONSUMER USA INC., has recently ruled that the provisions of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act do not apply if the creditor owns the debt in question.  As a practical matter this probably won't effect the kinds of scam debt collectors who often show up on 800notes.  The scam collectors don't give you any information about themselves so it is impossible to know whether or not they in fact "own" the debt in question.  Most do not send debt validation letters and many often say they are collecting for someone else.  So, make the complaint anyway if they are bothering you.  Let the FTC sort it out.

Also contact your local attorney general

If they continue to bother you,  and you know you do not owe any money, tell them that you know this is  a debt scam and that you are making a complaint to the police for extortion.  Once you get a copy of the police report and they call you again , just read out the  file number and the name of the PD or Sheriff’s office involved.   Tell them you’ll be glad to send a copy to them at whatever address the jack***es are working out of now.

You'll probably have to yell at them and talk over them.
You have to get tuff with these people because,  being akin to thugs, brute force is (metaphorically speaking).   the only thing they understand.

Thank you so much! I had an account with Aaron's but stopped paying on the account because they sold me a bed with bed bugs and wouldn't take it back. So supposedly this company is calling me to collect the debt for Aaron's