Victim Location 97225
Type of a scam Debt Collections
Consumer was contacted by phone, the B left a voicemail saying I needed to call back ASAP. I called back to the number above and pulled up the information saying I have a closed debt with an actual account I had in 2006. They told me they would be filing a summons, reporting to the credit reporting agencies as a negative debt. They told me I could make a payment today and then gave me a date to pay the rest. I asked for more information, they sent me a doc-u-sign to look over and it would have made the debt valid again. The address on the doc-u-sign is: 41689 Enterprise Circle North Temequla, CA 92550. Also, the website that hosts the email address is a non existent WordPress site, there is an actual company called Feinberg something that looks like it is the same thing but isn’t
Victim Location 45373
Total money lost $3,000
Type of a scam Credit Cards
This “law firm” claimed to be collecting an old US Bank credit card debt of mine. I thought it was legit because I actually had an account with them, and I knew I had a credit card debt lingering out there somewhere from like 14 years ago. My husband and I fell for it because he just recently got a promotion where he works and they were threatening to serve him at work and having his wages garnished. We know better too, but it was a scare tactic, and it worked. They said it was a debt of $5071.72 and they would settle it for $3,000. They said if we paid by credit card or got money from a family member within 30 minutes they wouldn’t serve my husband at work. It was actually my debt and I told them I was home and they were welcome to serve me here. I was crying on the phone with a lady named Monica and told her I don’t work because I have MS, so I most definitely didn’t have that amount of money at that moment. She insulted me and said “Sometimes you marry into wealth, and sometimes you marry into debt. In your husbands case he married into debt. A lot of the times when an employee gets served to have his wages garnished, the HR department won’t want to deal with that paperwork so they will just fire that employee. Do you want that to happen to him?” So, we fell for it, and paid them $3,000 over the phone with our credit card after they transferred us to a “third party” to process the payment. I have closed my credit card off with the bank, filed fraud, filed a police report, filed an investigation with Ohio’s attorney general, and also a complaint for scamming and fraud with the federal trade commission. Oh…their number comes through as unknown.