888-694-7320

Is this number legitimate

Not sure what you mean by "is this number legitimate" is supposed to mean, but if you mean has someone subscribed to a phone service and this is the assigned number given, then yes it is legitimate and had you bothered using a search engine, you too would have found the entry for emplegalgroup.com as the assigned company.
Now if you meant is the subscriber of the number a legitimate company, I would say they are law breakers.

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This call will notify you that we're attempting to serve you in order to appear. A preliminary investigation against your social and your active assets. For further detail or to change the status of the lawsuit, please immediately. 888-694-7320.

I doubt that person had the intelligence to do anything since it classified the call as "Debt collector" which it not true according to your search results.

They are a debt collection outfit, says it in the website title:
EMP Legal Group - Debt Collection & Payment Recovery  and at the bottom of the page:

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 NOTICE: As a law firm specializing in debt litigation, we are required by law to inform you that we may be considered a debt collector for the purposes of certain communications.

A post at WCM shows them using a different name in the Caller ID "UPC Services".
https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/4233709968

Debt Extortion Scam
Other numbers used by this scam outfit:
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-239-401-6921
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-279-237-1250
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-270-9142

Carrier Services and Process Servers do not know what is contained in the documents they are paid to serve/deliver. They don't cold call a recipient to inform them of a "failed attempt to deliver", as that would alert the recipient someone is attempting to Serve them. Anyone explaining what they are delivering, saying "matter attached to your SSN", "you have officially been notified", "deliver legal docs and to have ID ready"  or offering an alternative "solution" to avoid delivery is a scammer. Real process servers don't need to set a time to deliver any documents nor do they threaten legal action if you don't call them.

The vague scare tactic message is designed to panic a victim into calling back.

Most debt collectors will use a certain amount of pressure to convince you to pay the debt. After all, they often don't get paid unless you pay. Be suspicious of a debt collector who uses an unusual amount of pressure to get you to pay immediately, particularly if they also use scare tactics to get you to pay right away. For example, a debt collector is scamming you if it :

• threatens you with a lawsuit and tells that you can avoid the lawsuit by paying right away
• Says a Process Server  or Courier is coming with papers to sign
• Threatens to call / go to your place of employment
• Insists you have been notified, served or are non-compliant via phone message(s)
• Refuses to give a company name or verifiable Contact source
• Refuses to send proof of debt via US mail

A sure sign of a debt collection scam is a collector that wants to you to pay via wire transfer or another method that can't be traced. If the payment method can't be traced, you'll have a harder time getting the authorities involved.

If the creditor sounds completely foreign, or you know you never had an account with that business, there's a chance it's a scam. Never pay a collection you don't recognize. You have the right to request written proof of the debt from the debt collector before you send payment.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/fake-abusive-debt-collectors
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/consumer ... ollection-scams
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Consumer/Publications/PhonyDebtCollectionScams.asp
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/02/ftc ... llection-scheme
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/08/pha ... onate-law-firms

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Here are some ways to find out if a debt collector is legitimate.
•You received a letter in the mail. ...
•The agency is licensed in your state. ...
•The collector can verify your personal details. ...
•You can request information about the debt. ...
•There's more than one method of payment. ...
•A company works with you, not against you.

Source: https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/deb ... ctor-is-a-scam/

File a complaint:
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Received a call from 209-442-5427 - UPC Services at 12:32PM and a call from 209-442-5431 - UPC Services at 1:16PM.  My call blocker blocked both calls so no message left.  I did a Google search and both numbers listed the same message instructing me to call 888-694-7320.

Since you state that they didn't or couldn't leave a message then how do you know that they wanted you to call that number?

I got this message from 1-551-321-9852.
I don’t have any loan that isn’t being.

Transcript from the voicemail:

"This call is to notify you that we're attempting to serve you in order to appear in court regarding a preliminary investigation to get your social and your active assets. For further details or to check the status of the lawsuit. Please immediately call our firm at 1-888-694-7320."

This call is to notify you that we're attempting to serve you in order to appear in court regarding a preliminary investigation to get your social and your active assets. For further details or to check the status of the lawsuit. Please immediately call our firm at 1-888-694-7320."

I got the exact message, from same number. I owe nobody. BS scammer

Called and said they were attempting to reach me regarding being served to summon me to court regarding lawsuit against my social security and assets. If I want to change the outcome of the lawsuit I needed to call them immediately.

They call on a this morning it's Saturday trying to scam we on not giving them anything I would love to call them over and over curse at them and tie of there phone line with my bs.

Received a voicemail from 239-401-6948
This call will notify you that we're attempting to serve you in order to appear. A preliminary investigation against your social and your active assets. For further detail or to change the status of the lawsuit, please immediately. 888-694-7320.

I received this same message today. Is it a scam? Can they serve over the phone?

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Is it a scam?

Since the question has already been answered in this thread and since you had to read past the informative post to get to that one I really have to wonder why you asked it?

If someone is going to serve you, they don't call and give you a heads up.  "Hi, we're coming to serve papers on you."  What are you supposed to do?  Have coffee and donuts waiting?  EMC is a zombie debt outfit and they're basically scammers.  Block the number and forget about it.

The caller called from a local number and left a voice mail with this number to call. He said I was going to be served to appear in court because of my ssn and were going to seize my assets.

Received a call from 628-348-1856 stating the same as all others are reporting about my SSN and assets being seized and that I need to call 1-888-694-7320 to settle the debt. Funny thing! I have no outstanding debt and my credit rating is over 800. If this was some sort of debt maybe over 20 years ago, that I know nothing about, there is a thing called the Statute of Limitations. Not returning their calls.