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West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed suit against seven unlicensed debt collection companies in his state, according to a news release. The suits allege that the companies impersonated law enforcement, repeatedly harassed borrowers over the phone, made false threats and collected nonexistent debts or debts that were already paid.

Kevin Moss apparently thinks he found a perfect way to make me to do what he wants. A month ago I started receiving messages from Mr. Moss asking me to remove a post where he is accused of being responsible for the negative posts about Adam Mayer (you know, THAT Adam Mayer from AdamWins.com).

U.S. authorities report they have broken up a phone scam in which callers in India posed as debt collectors to bilk millions of dollars out of more than 10,000 U.S. residents.

Under new rules issued last week by the Federal Communications Commission, telemarketers will be required to get express written consent from consumers before they're allowed to make robocalls. Telemarketers will also be forbidden from claiming that consent is implied based on a prior business relationship with the consumer.

First, I got this email from Guy Murphy, who apparently is a CEO at Law Office of Joe Pezzuto.

We have been under a DDoS attack since yesterday. The traffic load has been immense with several thousands request per second. The attack is still on-going but has been mitigated, and you should not experience any service interruptions.

The Better Business Bureau published a warning regarding yet another “Sweepstakes/Telemarketing” scam. Consumers are receiving phone calls indicating they have won a lump sum amount of $3,500,000.00 U.S. dollars. But before funds are made available, the scammers require their victims to wire $25,000.00 U.S. dollars to cover insurance costs.

The Wisconsin's state's No Call List could become the No Call or Text List, under a proposal from State Sen. Van Wanggaard.

Recently we received a feedback message from Craig K. who claimed to work for SafeVue Auto Glass (safevueautoglass.com). In his message he wrote that negative posts about their number are fake and were posted by a competitor.

A couple days ago I received an email from Joel Hirschhorn, a Florida attorney representing Adam Meyer from http://www.adamwins.com.

Fake posts about: 407-831-2525, 314-298-1100, 407-914-0921, 888-461-8885, 407-860-6330, 407-953-2040, 407-914-5800 phone numbers

After checking the associated discussion thread, found that somebody posted multiple fake positive posts about this number. The person pretended to be several different clients who were happy with the service.

The latest version of the website generates a unique random monster avatar for all registered users who did not upload their own avatar image.

Another attempt to make the 813-347-4829 thread unreadable. This spam attack has been going on for several days and seems to be coming from the owner of the phone number.

At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal judge has halted a telemarketing operation that allegedly conned senior citizens into buying precious metals on credit without clearly disclosing significant costs and risks, including the likelihood that consumers would have to pay more money or lose their investment.