888-771-2177

Got a call yesterday. No message, just air...........

Ignored call left no message, called 3 times today... blocked the number

No one on other end of the call.

From Consumer Legal looking for someone not at my address.

Keep asking for some low life Mr. Hightower. Take note of the name. Call every day except Sunday Once block seem the scammed get around block number buy changing the last four numbers. 1 888 771 2177 to x xxx xxx 2188.

Keeps harassing my work. Not sure who they are or what they want, probably trying to collect an illegal debt for scammers Hydra Fund.

Called. Automated message said, This call is for (my name). If you are not (my name) hang up.
I wasn't identifying myself as myself today so I hung up. Looked up the number and found these reports and others elsewhere on different sites. Obviously a scam debt collector.

Congratulations! You're todays worst SHILL for a bogus Fraud-shop! Well, at least so far...
Skeff Ett Liv!
 Gunnar

If you call that number they ID themselves as "Consumer Legal".  Lady I talked to said they were in Virginia.  Admitted they were debt collectors.  Wouldn't give me any more information.   Other sites show clear debt scamming operation.

History on 800notes.

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402-235-1845
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888-240-0201
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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.

Shill alert!

Hi Tammy,

    Since, as you say, "I was called and finally decided to answer the phone and take care of what i owed" perhaps, you can provide some information, so as not to appear as though you shilling for a criminal enterprise.  Did "Consumer Financial" mail you a letter via US Mail validating the debt?  Did they provide a legally verifiable address, so you could correspond with them?  I am having great difficulty in finding any information about them, perhaps you can help me?