they call my parents house my family basically  they say i owe on a debt but looking through what was borrowed for this debt we were refused  that small loan butn they are trying to collect for a debt from a refusal??? what is this?  so i live in wisconsin  they call saying they are going to sue  send someone to hurt me and my family or better yet have the police beat and arrest me so this place is going down i am going to find this so called location whicj i know its false  they are probably using sattellite phones for this deal so it's time to bring them down  enough of the crap here

The Goldberg Maxwell office has been shut down. Joseph C. Bella the owner didn't obtain a business license to operate legally in Las Vegas, NV. Officers from the City showed up and demanded they shut their doors or face further charges. They ended up closing the Las Vegas office. Apparently this is the SECOND time the owner of "Goldberg Maxwell LLC" has been kicked out of Nevada for operating illegally without the proper licensing. He still owns and operates a collection agency (possibly more than 1) out of Buffalo, New York. He buys portfolios of very old debt, years old. Most of it so old it's out of statute to still legally collect and passes it to his collectors to collect. Some of the portfolios he buys consist of debt that's already been collected/paid years and years prior; he gives it to his collectors and they collect it, encouraging them to use scare tactics to hit monthly quotas by any means necessarry. THEY HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO ANYTHING. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THEIR THREATS. Right about the time they got shut down by The City of Las Vegas operating illegally, the owner Joseph C. Bella announced confirmation of a company name change. "Goldberg Maxwell, LLC" changes it's name every 4-6 months; or whenever the heat gets too hot & people start blogging about their experiences with them on places like this & it gets hard for them to successfully collect. Before "Goldberg Maxwell, LLC" they were "Mullins & Kane, LLC" before that they were another name random name. The next name they were going by was along the lines of: "The National Check Registry", as they mainly threatened under the premise of the debtor getting served court papers, being garnished, or other B.S. trumped up charges related to issuing "bad checks, insufficient electronic debit". None of it's real, they can't sue you, garnish you, serve you papers, anything. It's all fake, don't fall for it. Meet the owner of it all Joseph C. Bella: http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Lake- ... II.3073820.html -This is his mugshot for cocaine possession & tampering with evidence. Apparently he's the kid or grandkid of a former Florida congressman.

I've had the same issues Heather.  Thanks for posting, I'm tired of this and will be filing a complaint with the Attorney General's office.  They've called and got ugly with my family also.  Who the heck are these people.  There has got to be a way to stop them.

I suggest we all call Chris Cuomo at ABC. He is a good investigator on these kind of  scams. Please someone at there who knows who to file a class action lawsuit, lets try to file one IMMEDIATELY.  Obviously these people have no heart or soul !!!!!!

My brother got a call today stating that the US Marshall would be coming after me because I got a payday loan and did not pay it which is impossible and that he could lower the amount and I could make 2 payments.  When my brother called I went off. I told him these people got me the last time and they will not get me this time. I had my bank researching and they came up with nothing. They even said my bank was going to press charges and they said we don't have anything on me to press charges for. I told my brother I will set in jail before I give them anything else. I wished CNN could do a story on them and find out who these scum of the earth scammers are and they would be made to return all of the funds they have taken from honest people. The person who called was Mr Arnold which is probably a fictious name.

Vic, you seriously work for this guy?  Why the change of heart?

I am so glad I decided to research these 800 numbers and found this link.  I can't believe what I have discovered!  These people working for this "Goldberg Maxwell, LLC" are the reason why the world is what it is today! Preying on innocent people and scamming them!  These people need to get out there, earn a degree and get a real JOB!  I am in total shock as I am reading these postings.  I too have been receiving these calls but have yet to answer them.  I am going to look into blocking these calls...I am also going to report them to the BBB and send a Cease and Desist certified letter.  I wish everyone luck....I sure hope there is an end to all this garbage!

This happened to me yesterday. The lady s name was Ann...well she called herself detective  Ann. She called from a Wisconsin number. She said they were sending authorities to my  job . She said it was from a payday loan ....online  07. Just didn't seem right. She said that Wachovia bak was filing charges . I never committed Amy check fraud  . I am seeiny attorney on Monday. She called the last  four of  my social.  Andtw of my friends

they will go to great lengths wont they? they scared me to death saying that i was going to be charged with fraud.

omg this sounds like what has happened to me and it was anesha fox that called and she said that the county court marshall that would show up at my job would be lisa fisher and if i wanted to confirm this i could contact my local county court when i told her i have moved over the past few years and wanted to know which county, she just said my local county court house.
she said that lisa fisher would show up by monday (today 6/18/12) and serve me and possibly arrest me.    well lisa fisher called my job today and asked to speak with my manger and still went to the excent of all the details to him.

they actually called me at work today june 18 2012. they threatened me and told me that i have until 11 am to pay unless i will be arested by  noon time. wheni did not respond they called my job at noontime and asked for a manager. she claimed that her name was lisa fisher and that she was a court marshall and was looking to serve a summons to me while at work and wanted to know how my employer wanted to handle. thankfully i had already gone over this with my manger so he was aware and told them that we were a small company and they do not get involved with any of that, and that they would need to make arrangements with me. they asked to speak to payroll which my manger transferred her to but warned the girl in payroll. they represented themselves as a clerk from the county court house and wanted to know how to handle a summons. she told them you are the court house and she did not know, they then said well we do not want to send a court marshall for this and wanted to know how she wanted us to handle it, the girl in payroll said to send a certified letter.  i would also like to mention that i returned a call to them a few days ago and left a message telling them i do not know what this is involving and that i would like to have the information mailed to me so i could review it. a guy called me on my cell phone today and said that he understood but they could not mail me but they could email me the information. i gave him an updated email address and while i was on the phone he said that it had been sent, guess what i got nothing. i stopped at my local police deppartment and they told me to stop at the court house to find out if there is a summons, and to also report this to the attorney generals office.she sudgested that i record every conversation and to let them know that i recorded the conversation, and in this conversation ask for documentation as well as tell them not to call at work. they are claiming that this is a debt from 2007 and it is now 2012

Got a call from someone by the name of Dan Thomas representing the attorneys Maxwell and Goldberg.  He says he represents a mutual client who wants to sue me for fraud.  Did not leave any information as to who they represent or what the suit is about.  I called back but got a voicemail.

his real name is chris bryston and his # is 7162547340  call him !

personally sue his a** hes breaking the law and is prolly on a bundle of heroin as hes talking to you on the phone lying to you

i touch little boys and have a serious cocaine/heroin problem

pleaseeeee someone find me a rehab!!!!!!!!!!!!

chris bryston im so sik of driving ur bi*** a** to work, you waste all ur money as soon as you punch out for work on friday afternoons, you go straight to the phone and dial a prostitutes number and blow a q of cocaine with them. im so sick of this b***s*** u suck mad dick and im quiting this f****ng s****ole soon i hope u see this u lameass n****.

stop scamming ppl out of there money a***ole

I called the number to a debt collector who managed a payment i made back in jan 2012  to pay off a debt they claimed I owed to my bank from back in 2009. My call was triggered because I received a call similar regading an unamed debt. Not knowing of any other debt issues, i reverted back to this bill collector to assure everything was handled on this debt back in January. When i called the number i had for them, i asked for a review of my case and was transfered to a woman who was supposed to help me. She initially started giving me major attitude and had no idea what I was talking about. She said she had no record under my name for a debt to my bank, but hada case for me regarding a debt to a payday loan company in the amount of close to $1,400. She told me she worked on behalf of the district attorney in my area, and that the debt had actually left the hands of a 3rd part debt collector 3 weeks ago, and her job was to mediate between me and the court and lender. She told me the creditor demanded $1400 to resolve the issue out of court, I was completely shooken up because I hired a consolidator to pay off my pay day loans, and could have sworn this was taken care of. Second, my payday loan was in the amount of $300. I found paperwork that proved i attempted to propose money to settle the debt many times in 2010, but the lender company never responded. Why was i paying for legal fees and negligence when i was in fact the one who was ignored by them? I should also note, I am now close to sure this debt was in fact paid. The major issue was the the woman was posing as a DA correspondance, told me all accounts under my social security number (which she had the last 4 digits to) were going to be frozen within 2 business days if i didnt pay, and that she was going to move forward and file for a court date to be released to me (which could be by a Marshall at my doorstep). The list goes on, but in between yellling at me and bringing me to tears at my place of work, she also also insinuated on numerous occasions it was possible I could have criminal charges (pending on the outcome of the court date), that the judge would make my pay around $2,600, and that i would have to answer to charges of check fraud. I asked for documentation, a bill, proof that the company had tried corresponding with me since i never received notice on the matter, and she told me she would have to file a motion to ger the papers which were already being used against me in the system. Lies, lies, lies. Thankfully, i found this website and realized I was being scammed. It then occured to me the caller from January was also lying and I actually made payment to a bill that didnt exist. This is being investigated by my bank. Based on the fact the number from the collector in January (who used a different name) led me to this woman, who then used Maxwell Financial, then it came out by one of her co workers who that the name of the company is actually Golberg and Maxwell. The woman who used illegal tactics to get me to pay debt that I was allowed to see documentation for went by the name of Anesha Fox. Her coworker with a strong (fake sounding) southern accent also called and harrassed me several times, then hung up and said she was filing papers for my court date when i wouldnt cooperate. Why is this company continuing to get away with stealing from people? How hard could it be to put an end to this? Anyone have records as to whether or not they have been legally charged or sought after by authorities?

got a call from goldburg and maxwell 414-431-4676 saying I owe 420.00 dollars or they are going to file charges on me for a bad check. I asked to get some kind of paperwork on this to show its for real and they took my email address and said they would send me an email and I never got anything from them. they say the person that I got a loan from was cmg group LLC. I spoke to a Larry Burns.

I wish I would of read these postings before hand. I got a call 6/11/12 from some man named Mr Arnold.Threating to take me to court, calling friends and telling me I owe on a payday loan. that they were doing me a favor for taking less than the orginal amount

she said her name was jackylyn sparrow

these people called me today and said i owed a payday loan and said a summens was being sent this week and they lowered the payment down to a lower amount and i had to pay by 4:30 same day. they said they could not take debit or credit. they had to take a money pack. 3 different cards to be exact with 3 different amounts. they said they had to do that because they needed a traceable bond..they said if i didnt pay today that i was going to court and would have  fraud charge against me and face 36months in jail!! i cried my eyes out! then i found out they are bogus and what they wanted to do was take my money and run. luckily i didnt send anything. dont trust these guys at all!! all she could give me was my last four digits of social and she actually called my stepmother and told her she would be summens to court also! these b*****ds.

nadine is her real name and is really stupid, mr newman is a false name to a fat pig who does alot of drugs...they are a little scam office in las vegas nevada on w sahara st...mr newman is really named chris bystron...when u call ask for owner joe bella, aka as a walking scam artist... the real number to there office is 716-310-6664

owner is joe bella hes a scam artist collects illegally report him to the bbb and the fbi he sucks a big amount of dick hes been arrested for cocaine pos sev times in lake county florida

his number is 716-310-6664

These people called me threatening me first with a "complaint" of a bad check (which I knew I did not have) so when I called them back and confronted them demanding a real bill if they thought I owed them money, the person became very angry and hung up.  Then the next day another individual called me saying they represented this so called Goldberg and Maxwell and had a complaint for fraud... I called him back demanding a bill or something real in writing.. He became angry and called me a f...kng loser and hung up!!!  I believe this is an internet fraud scheme because last week my debit card was compromised as was my computer and I have had to take steps accordingly to protect my information.  I would like to know how to stop these people as I believe they are hackers.  The people who were after my debit card was a website called SOS, and it is a very scary website.  These guys are bad guys.

I recieved a call from this number 414-431-5175 claiming that are from Goldberg Maxwell and i owe for a payday loan from 2009 and had inaccurate personal info about me.  The call was very threatning telling me that they were going to serve me papers @ work and would be sued!  These people were very threatning!!!!!!!!!!

I got a Voicemail from this place with the phone number 414-431-4718.  First off they called my Brian.  That's not my name.  Second, they said I had 3 social security numbers that I use which is wrong.  I left them a message telling them this and not to contact me again.  Also about a month ago I got a similar call and it turned out they were looking for someone with the samd name.  Idiots.

File a complaint with your State Attorney General, then send a Cease and Desist Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested letter to Goldwell & Maxwell.  Champing at the bit for them to call me one more time!!!!

Received call at work, female named Nadine spoke asking for me. Left message to call Mr. Jared Newman at (414) 431-4589. Stated something about a complaint. Nothing else left on message. Company is Goldberg Maxwell - Law Office. Don't know whats going this.

Yes, I too got a phone call and phone message from Goldberg & Maxwell (414-431-5170) After placing calls to my local phone company, then their  Nuisance Bureau, local police department, NYS Attorney General, I too am sending a Cease & Desist Certified letter (return receipt requested) Just in case there is a class action suit, I have proof I was harassed!! They have never been able to produce anything with my legal signature because I never signed for anything! Wonder what phone number they will be using next week!!

This caller sent me a text message on my cell phone stating that I need to call them regarding an account as soon as possible or legal action would be taken!  I called them back at the number in the text message, 888-699-9726.  The lady said that she worked for Goldberg and Maxwell and that I owed a payday loan in 2007 and it was considered a bad check! I said I do not recall this and I ask for information in writing and she got real upset!  She yelled and said I need to pay this off right away and she did not know who the original creditor was!  She threatened me with legal action also.  She knew my social security number, one of my sister's name and a friend of mine name.  I was a victim of identity theft.  The bank said an employee got a hold of some of the customers files and the employee was fired.   I told the lady this information and she would not have any of it.  And still threatened me and then she hung up.  I called back and got another girl and I asked her for the street address of Goldberg and Maxwell and she said she was not authorized to give out that information.  I went only and found and address in Buffalo, NY.  Anyway, that is where I am going to send a cease and desist letter to them via certified return receipt.  Beware of illegal collection actions by collection agencies posing as lawyers!

Do not give these people any info
Since I spoke to them being that I work at the State Attorney's office They have not called back