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This has got to be one the funniest calls I have ever received from a scammer :) This dude who calls himself "Mr.Dominic Puolo" says he is verifying location information to deliver documents, because that really makes sense to let someone know you are going serve them ahead of time?! Think before you speak "Dominic" so this lame calls my parent's home , my cell phone, my work and my mother's cell phone, who knows how he got ahold of her cell number but he was desperate as hell I guess! He left the most laughable message on her phone about how "I have been calling your daughter and she just keeps hanging up on me???" We about died when we listened to his lame message. Laughing til your stomache hurts style! The best part is when you call the number and he answers and says Hi its Mr.Lewis so if you put two and two together, you can use common sense that he is a scammer who thinks he is slick by calling from one number, naming a different number to call back as if he is working "for" the company and then when you get ahold of them he just answers with a different name but the voice is so obviously the same its uncanny! Hey Dominic Puolo Lewis, you are pathetic. Get a real job. Stevie Wonder could see how fake you are!

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