Response to Mr. Tayek @888-438-0878

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Author: Julia Forte

Last night we received an email from someone named "Thomas Tayek" in regards to his business phone number 888-438-0878.

In the email Mr. Tayek is demanding that we

"take every single negative comment off of [his] work phone number or i will seek legal action against you because it is breaking the law to have false information posted on a website. i am asking one time for you to take these post off or i will take legal action as we are a law firm."

Mr. Tayek, here is our public response to your ultimatum:

  1. As a law firm you must know that it is NOT against the law "to have false information posted on a website".
  2. We cannot know if the statements are truthful. But we sure hope that this mix of people's opinions and experiences helps the community make their own conclusions and come to their own decisions.
  3. You are welcome to respond to false posts (or negative posts, as it appears you use the terms 'negative' and 'false' interchangeably) with truthful information. I am sure the users will appreciate it and your responses will answer many questions the community obviously has.
  4. Whether your company is a law firm or not, it does not change our moderation rules, which can be summed up as "if the TOS is followed the content stays".

 
Also please note that that if you sue us, we will FIGHT BACK, we WILL WIN, and you WILL PAY our legal fees. If you look through our news section, you will see that this is not an empty promise.

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  • +1
    Mike
    | 1 reply
    888-846-3275 is another phone number that could be linked to the same people https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-846-3275
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    amused
    | 4 replies
    Attorney?? Lol, more like 5th grade drop out after reading his request! Perfect example of poor syntax and how about capitalizing? If Thomas does indeed work for a law office, he should immediate sue the education system because the failed him, HORRIBLY!
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    Silly replies to amused
    | 3 replies
    I find your post funny .I now am AMUSED as well.Perhaps if your post is pointing out someone else's
    errors you might want to proof read your own post.
    "he should immediate sue the education system because the failed him"
    Did you mean to write
    "he should IMMEDIATELY sue the education system because THEY failed him?"
    Thanks for the laugh
  • +1
    Mike replies to Mike
    Here is one more number: https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-714-798-5859
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    tea replies to Silly
    | 1 reply
    Don't you hate it when people point out your spelling mistakes? I think it's RUDE and it takes the whole discussion off topic! Although I have to agree the writing style of this law firm representative is too conversational.
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    carlb
    | 2 replies
    If this person were duly licensed to practice US law, why does google.com/search?q="Thomas+Tayek" only return two websites - this 800notes page and a 'rootsweb' geneaology entry claiming "Frank Thomas Tayek was born 28 MAY 1889 in Clayton County, Iowa, and died 6 AUG 1985"? Lawyers usually do use their personal legal name in connection with their professional practice, so I'd have expected *something* to come up?
  • +2
    HippAnonymous
    | 1 reply
    Word is out, Mr. Tayek. You have a small [removed:lang]. Sue me if you can find me.
  • +1
    Rhonda
    | 1 reply
    SCAMMING, FAKE, LYING ......... Let me tell you something it's against the law for you to call people, claim they owe money they don't owe, threaten with wage garnishment, threaten to take people to court you have been found out and you don't like it anymore than everyone likes dealing with a total IDIOT such as yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 888-846-3275 Does that number look familiar to you? That number is associated with a Donald Walker, Ryan Lewis but who knows if Donald Walker even exists seeing how the only one I can ever talk to is Ryan Lewis who likes to make threats!!!!!!!!!!!  So you want these posts down do you well I want the stupid calls to stop, I want you to quit trying to scam money from people that ACTUALLY work for it will that happen NOPE so don't expect us to take down posts that are doing nothing but telling the truth about a piece of $#!$ such as yourself !!!!!!!!!!!!!  The only legal action that is going to be taken is by the people you are harassing at their work/home and I'm one of them I let Ryan Lewis know he can pay me for my headaches cause I'm not paying you one red cent!!!!!!!! I hope the authorities catch you and put your stupid ass under a jail now you wanna comment on that wanna threaten legal action now I laugh in your face you UNEDUCATED IDIOT : )
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    imnonamoose replies to HippAnonymous
    heeheeheelarious. thats not slander. its true. I read it on the internet.
  • +1
    pockets
    I believe the threat was written by the same person who owns 888-438-0878, and is pretending to be a lawyer.  Manners of writing give it away.
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    CletoReyes
    | 1 reply
    That person was obviously not an attorney. Dishwasher, maybe.
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    just passing through replies to Rhonda
    Thanks Rhonda for your comments.

    However they may not help Julie's position that 800notes is ok with their platform of primarily unfounded comments, since they cannot know if the posted statements are truthful.
    She hopes that the mix (true and untrue) of people's opinions and experiences helps the community make their own conclusions and come to their own decisions.

    Your comments have helped me come to my own decision.
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    just passing through replies to carlb
    A little google here and google there, and a few minutes of reading and scrolling and... poof!, a factual account, flawless research and accurate summary.

    Another one that believes everything on the internet is factual and reliable.

    Don't like it?  Not true?  Fabricated?

    Remember; just an opinion that helps the community make their own conclusions and come to their own decisions.
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    Dishwasher replies to CletoReyes
    An Attorney can't give you stomach poisoning if he doesn't do his job right.
    ~Dishwasher
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    Patrick
    The grammatical inaccuracies suggest that we are dealing with foreigners attempting to masquerade as debt collectors, or a group of teenagers.  Law firm my ass; paralegals and lawyers have much better grammatical conditioning, since...you know, it's part of their job requirements!
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