First you receive a private call. The caller states she is a currier and will be at your house the next day with court ordered documents. When you press her for info she gives you a number to call and says give them this reference number. I will hold your papers untill the agency tells me when a good time to deliver. When you call the 888 number. The greeting is just a woman saying switchboard how may I direct your call? No business name, nothing. I gave the reference number and after a brief hold a man answers. He immediately starts. They will have the last 4 of your social, an address you lived at at some point and your birthday. He says he represents a company that you owe money to and they are prepared to take you to court. UNLESS you send proof that you don't owe , and you have untill the end of the day. The account will most likely be extremely old and they know you may not have the proof. So you pay or go to court. I was told to pay over 5000 for a credit card that had been charged off over 8 years ago. I infact had one of these cards but it was paid off 15 years ago. I spoke to fraud dept, told them this crazy story, was informed that not a single card was tied to me since I closed my account. Oh and the account info they give you is bogus. I then called back to tell my case worker what I had learned. He was conveniently out to lunch. I explained to her what I had learned. Gave her the fraud detectives info so they could call them for my proof. I said I know this is a scam and with colorful language told her if they ever contact me again I will be reporting them. She got quite upset said it's not a scam that they don't make this stuff up. When I said then why does the company you claim I owe, have absolutely nothing on me since 2003? She said there is no need to yell and hung up. Be careful with these people!!
#63437 | 2017-11-15 08:30:37
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I received a call from an unknown number. Similar to what happened with you, a woman stated that she was from a legal courier service, gave a 888# to call with a case number. I did not call the number because it sounded too off to me. I have nothing pending on me plus if I did,companies always mail notices first. I googled the 888# and found this posting. So thank you.
First you receive a private call. The caller states she is a currier and will be at your house the next day with court ordered documents. When you press her for info she gives you a number to call and says give them this reference number. I will hold your papers untill the agency tells me when a good time to deliver. When you call the 888 number. The greeting is just a woman saying switchboard how may I direct your call? No business name, nothing. I gave the reference number and after a brief hold a man answers. He immediately starts. They will have the last 4 of your social, an address you lived at at some point and your birthday. He says he represents a company that you owe money to and they are prepared to take you to court. UNLESS you send proof that you don't owe , and you have untill the end of the day. The account will most likely be extremely old and they know you may not have the proof. So you pay or go to court. I was told to pay over 5000 for a credit card that had been charged off over 8 years ago. I infact had one of these cards but it was paid off 15 years ago. I spoke to fraud dept, told them this crazy story, was informed that not a single card was tied to me since I closed my account. Oh and the account info they give you is bogus. I then called back to tell my case worker what I had learned. He was conveniently out to lunch. I explained to her what I had learned. Gave her the fraud detectives info so they could call them for my proof. I said I know this is a scam and with colorful language told her if they ever contact me again I will be reporting them. She got quite upset said it's not a scam that they don't make this stuff up. When I said then why does the company you claim I owe, have absolutely nothing on me since 2003? She said there is no need to yell and hung up. Be careful with these people!!
Thanks for your posting I received a call from an unknown number. Similar to what happened with you, a woman stated that she was from a legal courier service, gave a 888# to call with a case number. I did not call the number because it sounded too off to me. I have nothing pending on me plus if I did,companies always mail notices first. I googled the 888# and found this posting. So thank you.