404-492-7970
GA, US
BillyBoy
BillyBoy
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
See website http://www.budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/cmc_recovery.htm it goes over the non-legit company called Claims America or CMC recovery. My wife got a similar scam call for a debt or claim?? that they gave no detail at all and threatened to go to court for??. I heard that they scam you out of money, with maybe old claims or records of bills that were paid in full or possibly a balance left but they are located in Stone Mountain Georgia using a UPS office as a address! They have no legal counsel or any legit attorneys, according to Mr. Hibbs. So don't pay them a cent since it might open an old claim that you might have a hard time to get legitimate records!!
fed up
fed up
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
Calls and states the balance I owe is triple what I have listed in my own records.
R.
R.
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
Yeah, I got called by this number a couple months ago, tellin me I have an unpaid balance, threatening me to go to court on 3,000.00 and if I had made payments, I would only have to pay 1,000.00 of it.

I didn't really check it and I did pay the first couple months until this month they took the money out of my bank earlier then they should have, and bounced one of my other checks in the process, I proceeded to call this number back and found out that it has been changed/removed, and so I called my bank and told them to stop the checks from them.
XXwickedXX
XXwickedXX
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
I took it upon myself to call these numbers once again except this time, posing as a wife of one that was being scammed. He is a family member.

Anyways, I recorded the conversation and if the law wants a copy, I have it. The call lasted approx 10 minutes and the man that I spoke to was Victor Black ext 118. As the call progressed Mr Black informed me that this collection was due to "breech of contract and that he was scheduled to be served a summons already and that he would be willing to open the case back up to get this taken care of voluntaraly". When I asked him where do I send the money to that we don't have a credit card, and is there anyway that I could send them payments, Mr Black placed me on hold. When he came back to the phone,  Mr Black informed me that if I made a payment today, that he could get an offer on the table for $848.88 dollars and wipe out this "debt" before the legal filings happen with the sherriff. Basically he was asking for my checking account number. I told him that NO ONE gets that kind of info due to my fear of scams and if he would be so kind to send me and my "husband" something in writing for our records, then we would try to take care of this "debt". This is a direct quote from Mr Black in reguards to the summons in court. " Hello ma'am, they are willing to settle this thing out for $848.88 as a one time out of court settlement. SO they are willing to keep this thing from going to court cause it will save both parties Money." Then I asked him " When is the scheduling of the summons to be sent out? " his answer, " Well basically once we signed off on it, on the refusal by him, we will send it to the attorney's and they will prepare all the information that we have for him. And then they decide when the summons and everything will be sent out in Fayette Co.  They do all  - we don't sue anybody here or anything we just negotiate for them."

When I asked, "who is the attorney handling this, Can I speak to the attorney?" His answer was " No, thats why they pay us. If you want to deal with them you can deal with them in court proceedings, if you guys want to deal directly with them. Other then that, it would be no need in paying us, am I right?"

I must admit, I wasn't expecting that answer, and I was caught off guard. SO I stuttered a bit and then went back into it. I explained that "we" didn't have a credit card and if they would take a couple money orders or something like that, that I was very leary about giving out my checking account number to people cause I was affraid of scams. His answer to this was" well if you can get a fax out, if we make some sort of payment over the phone today.  Thats the only way that I can keep it from going to the next level. Give me a moment please." and he placed me on hold yet again.
He came back to the phone and apologized saying that he had another phone call that he had to take. Then he stated that if I wanted to fax him or email him stating that we wanted to settle this thing out, that he didn't have a problem in doing that for us that it would stop all course of action against my "husband". Otherwise we would need some type of representation to get this thing resolved.


Mr Black informed me that he could only hold the "offer" for another hour and that I HAD to pay this bill within that amount of time. After all was said and done with the offer statement, when Mr Black noticed that I wasn't budging on it he then stated that I could make a counter offer. I have NEVER in all my years heard of a collection agency asking for a counter offer when settling a debt.

I then asked Mr Black about the bill in general. I told him that my "husband" had an account with this place but that it was in 1993 and all was paid on it shortly thereafter. When I asked how it was possible to still owe on this bill which had been paid in full, he stumbled and got all flustered and placed me on hold for approx 1 to 2 mintues. When he came back to the phone, he mumbled a bit more and was apparently shakin up. I'm assuming that he was being coached on what to say to me since it was evident to him that I wasn't budging and I was asking questions that he couldn't answer on his own.

His answer to this was "Well, I have it going into collections in 2003, so once it hits the collections I don't know if it was sold and passed around prior to that but the collections was for 2003. And then it was puchased by these guys, so I don't know."
My response was, " ok so...." and he interupted and said, "if you guys wanna take the chance in court, you can do that, I mean if you don't feel that you've got a responsiblity to this then do what you must and go to court on it."
When I paused and said, "well I'm just kinda leary about this because I know there's alot of scamming going on and I'm just really leary about this." His answer was, " absolutly! If you don't feel comfortable doing this, then DON'T DO IT. But I can't help you in stopping any court proceedings against my husband either."
He then repeated almost the whole converstaion stating that it was being recorded. When I started to tell him that he was being recorded also, he interupted me, so I didn't get to finnish. I do know however, that in the state of Kentucky, a recording is admissable in court as long as ONE of the parties knows that they are being recorded.. Meaning, I can record the convo without his permission. Due to the hippa laws, he should have told me right at the start that I was being recorded. He is the pursuant of a "bill" and he is the one to inform me that he's recording. But he didn't.
Anyways, I excused myself saying that my husband didn't get home untill later that night and that I needed to speak with him before I make any decisions. We exchanged times on when I would call back with the info and he told me that I needed to get this solved as fast as I could.  
And then the call was over.
I never called back.

This call was placed on Feb 20th, 2008
the call started: 6:54 pm
call ended: 7:04 pm
Phone number called: 404-492-7970

Note, anything that is placed in these " " are direct quotes on behalf of myself and Mr Black. I listened to the recordings and got the direct quotes from there. When I get the recording uploaded onto the net, I will place a link for you all to hear.
liz
liz
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
received call from a "Investigator Victor Black" stating a case number for a county I never heard of.  He spoke softly but with the background noise I could definately tell this wasnt an attorneys office.  He went on to state that I owed his "client" $6500.  I pretended to sound concern and I even went as far as expressing a willingness to pay. he offered to take care of this at an drastically reduced amount, even lower then the last girl that called me in november. I taped the entire conversation for my attorney, who has 7 other clients that have been scammed by this company.  We're in Texas..we can't be sued...i will kep you informed.  If you are receiving calls from these people and you live in Texas, let me know and I'll give you the attorneys number that preparing the suit.
Dennis
Dennis
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
My wife and I have had several calls this week from a company named Claims America wanting me to give my father a message for them. That they are filing a Civil Suit for money that they say he owes. Even went as far as telling me and my wife that if we didn't tell them about the messages that they would summons us for negligence in the case for not telling them. They were very rude; also threatening got mad and hung up on me and also on my wife when we started asking for information. A Lisa Evans told my wife that our phone # was put down for an emergency contact #. My parents would not put our name and phone # down on a debt for an emergency contact # for someone to get in touch with them. So my wife finally did call my father and told him about the call; because she was very upset and I was just plain mad. My father called them about the case # that was given to my wife. They told him that the outstanding debt was for $5060.00, but that they would settle the account for only $1629.69. Why would they settle for such a small amount when they could get the whole amount? My dad told us that Claims America was to send him a letter with their payment information and where to send the payment too. My wife and I told him not to send anything to them because something just didn't sound right. My father said he told them that the account that they were talking about had been paid and closed some time ago leaving a zero balance. And that he had not gotten a letter or received a phone call from that account saying that he owed them anything at all. And yeah, he was going to send them money until we told him absolutely not. That we'd found out that this is a scam. My parents live in another state then my wife and I. So we have reported them to our state Attorney General and my dad is going to report them to his state Attorney General. So Good Luck to them in getting anything out of my dad. I just hope they call me back; because if they do I'm going to give them the phone number and name of our State Attorney General. And tell them if they want any more information to call them.
Another person is Investigator - Donald (Don) Bradley that called. I told him he was full of sh-t and hung up on him. That's when he called me back telling me my address (and couldn't even say the name right) and that his supervisor heard what I said and that they were going to summons me in the case. First of all if the supervisor had heard the conversation he would have called me back. Duh, there was no supervisor. People, we have to watch out for people like this!!!!! They are out there ripping people off. They just hate the fact that they can't get everyone to comply with them. There were so many red flags in these calls it wasn't even funny. And just as some of you have said, "This is just plain harassment. And it has to stop." Good Luck to those of you that are dealing with these crazy people!!!!
Jimmy
Jimmy
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
Called this morning and spoke with Lauren VanDette.  She has information in regards to an old account that I had back in 1995.  She couldn't give me any information at all, however she was able to find my address where i currently live.  Asked her to fax me information from her company so I could make sure she was legit and she said she would do so right away.  No respose as of yet.  BE VERY VERY CAREFUL, THEY ARE VERY GOOD AT TALKING FAST AND WILL USE ANYTHING YOU SAY TO TRY TO CORNER YOU INTO GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT!!!!!
Jimmy
Jimmy
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
Not sure what the deal is here but my ex wife who lives about 500 miles from me had a message on her machine with a case number as well as my last name.  Stated that there was an "action" against me in regard to some debt that had not been paid. They would like to speak with me and I fully intend to call them first thing in the morning to see what I am able to do in order to further clear this very important matter up as soon as possible.  I will post again tomorrow with results of call.
Patrick
Patrick
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
I got a call about someone we never even knew and had to call them back 3 times to take us off the list
B
B
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
The company contacted my sister wanting my information.  Like everyone else they had the last 4 digets of my ss#.  She refused to give them any information on me.  After I goodled the number and called her back reading some of the commments she called them back pretending to be me.  They told her they would be serving me with a summons for court if I didn't pay the debt. She asked and just where are you serving it.  They gave her both my current and old address and she said well good luck as those are OLD.  I told her if they call back again tell them I died and good luck getting money from my ashes.  Something needs to be done about this company as not everyone has access to computers and can't reasearch this.  I wonder how many innocent people have been scared into giving them bank information and have had money stolen from them.
Ruben
Ruben
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
WTF!! they called saying that my dad owes over $7,000. they couldnt quite explain what he owed money for but they said it dates back to 1999! they wanted us to pay over the phone. They couldnt send us a letter because it wouldnt get here in time (before the cops came knocking at my door) instead she wanted a friggin email address.  They claim to be investigative services. they also said if we pay over the phone now we would pay less.
Mr. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
This firm is a fraud. It has stolen debt data and is adding amounts to debt that are fraud.These people are scams.
Melissa
Melissa
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
They left a message on my answering machine this morning (Feb 1, 2008) for my ex-husband, who hasn't lived here in over 20 years and has been dead since 1990, about a civil complaint filed against him. Are they doing anything illegal that can be reported somewhere to get them shut down? Or is this business as usual in Georgia?
Heather
Heather
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
This horrible company called my Aunt's house looking for me.  I've never listed this number on any CC applications, so I'm not sure how they got it.  They wouldn't give her any informatin about the "debt" that was owed but they gave this phone number for me to contact them.  Thanks for all who left a message warning me!  I'm going to make sure that I do not call them back and I advise everyone who gets a call from Claims America to ignore them.  This company is a bunch of scam artists!
Jennifer
Jennifer
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
On Wednesday January 23rd my mother in law called me to tell me that a man named Robert Tuchi called looking for me in regards to a debit.  I called back and when the person answered the said Claims America Investigating Company. the lady that I talked to said that they were a company that tracks people down for creditors.  She told me that the were trying to locate me for a creditor that I had over 10 years ago.  They said that I was being sued for $20,000 and that the sheriffs would serve me papers. I am glad that I did not give them any information and that I searched and found this site.  Thank you to everyone who placed comments!
Shauna
Shauna
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
I received a call from my sister in law that she received a phone call at her job for me from "Claims America" told her that I gave this phone number as a place of contact. Well let me tell you why this was so weird. The debt that they were calling on is over 7 years old. I was not married to the current husband when I had this debt. My current husband used to work for the family owned company that they called for me at. When they called and got my sister in law they asked for me by my maiden name. First off I have never worked for the family business, and second off we are no longer there in Michigan, Third I have never put that on a credit report as a place of employment for me, Fourth the "cuurent" address that they had for me was the address that my ex-husband and I lived at when we were married. Now come on they just called my inlaws in Michigan (idiots).So they left their message with my sister in law along with the "account" number and everything. They divuldged information that they shouldn't have to her which I know is against the law. Well I called them back and the lady was extremely rude to me I asked her what the debt was from and she said it was from a bank to which I had a car loan thru and it was repo'ed and had never been contacted since from the bank about repaying the debt. Matter of fact on my credit report it said that the debt was "paid as agreed" (now I know that was a fluke because I never paid the debt back) I told the woman that she called my current in laws and that my last name wasn't the same. I told her I was mad that they even contacted them and she said well that's what our "investigators" told us. SO I proceeded to tell her that her investigators weren't worth crap! She then said that they were going to file civil suit against me if I didn't pay the debt. Then she said "Do you want to settle this in court our out of court?" So I told her, "I want to settle this in court and good luck finding me!" She said "Good Luck in court" and hung up on me. Then I got a call from my ex-husband tonight and he said that he and his new wife had a phone message from "claims america" and they were looking for me and left their number and my "account" number on their machine. Now I have been in contact with them and they are still calling around to other people and divuldging information again. I am currently trying to find out a way to get them to stop the harrasment. Ohio Attorney General site is asking for an email/website/address.. I don't have any. And I also don't want to call them again and give them a chance to tick me off. Good luck to all who are dealing with these nimrods!
Charley
Charley
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
On Jan 21,2008 I received a call from Claims America.  They said this was a civil suit against me for Providian.  I asked them what the acc number was and they gave me the last four digits of the acc.  I then ask them how much the account was the lady Maxine Billings stated that the amount of the bill was 5600.00 today.  She asked me how I wanted to make the payment and I told her I was not paying on an account that I was not aware that I owed.  She then said are you refusing to pay I said yes.  I asked her to send me a statement in the mail on the account and I would get in touch with her.  She then told me that I would need a lawyer to show up with me in Longview Tx and be prepared to pay up to 12000 plus for all court costs and other things.  She had also contacted my father and threatened to sue him if he did not pay for his brothers account (meaning me I am his son).  This is not the first time this has happened from this company and it should be made to stop.  One of these days an unexpected innocent person is going to give them information on the phone and lose everything. Be careful also because they are getting information almost to the exact of your accounts and then let you fill in the blanks.
Moe
Moe
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
got a call from that place late this evening-assumed it to be scammers-(duh)-
ignore them at all cost
Angry ex husband
Angry ex husband
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
We got a message for my EX-wife threatening Civil Action.(We've been divorced for 15 + yrs. She remarried the day after our divorce was final, changed her name to the new married name, and has divorced husband #2 in the mean time.). My current wife called back to inform them they had called the wrong number; that wife #1 did not live at this address, had never lived at this address and questioned how they got our information (full name, adress and phone #).  She was told by a "Claims Supervisor", that it was printed on a check and signed by me; to a Law firm who I never heard of, for legal fees for my EX WIFE, from a bank I dont even use; in the amount of $969.02. My wife stated a mistake must have been made.  She was told, "You don't know what your husband does!! You think I just pulled that information out of somewhere?!?!?  I'm looking at the check!! When you get your husband to explain the truth to you and you can get your house in order; you tell your husband to give me a call!!!!", and she hung the phone up in my wife's ear. Well you better beleive I called bac (Thank God my wife knew better and trusts me). I was supposedly given to the "Director of Operations", who stated my name, address and signature were on this check; gave me the name of the bank it was drawn off of, and told me she would investigate and call back within 36 hours. Since this isn't my bank, I called the banking institute she gave me and was told that NOTHING appeared in their records with my name, address or social security number.  Fearing Identity Theft or Fraud I've called for days with no response from this woman; and nothing but "the run around" from rude or abusive "Agents".  Our next calls are to the Ga. Better Business Bureu and the Ga. State's Attorney's Office.
gotcha
gotcha
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
claims america are a bunch of con-men. bunch of very unprofessional losers who dropped out of 8th grade. None of them can speak proper english and they will try to rip you off and take your money. DO NOT PAY THEM ANYTHING!!!!!!!
Heather
Heather
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
Yep, I'm getting calls from this company too.  They are asking for someone that I don't even know and in the voicemail it states "If you don't respond we will have to assume it is you and resume litigation."  After reading here I'm not even going to bother calling them and telling them they have the wrong number.  Exercise caution with these people, as with any debt collection agency.
Tired of the Calls
Tired of the Calls
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
My husband received a call yesterday from this company saying they are going to file civil suit if he does not pay.  We had paid this debt years ago and I had her read the account number to me because I still have all the paper work from before and they have changed the account number by one number on the end trying to say he must have had two accounts  with the same company at the same time.  They also had the last four of his SS# which scares me.  I have told them that if they call me again I am going to file a suit for harrassment because what they are doing is ILLEGAL.  So we willsee what happens from there.
Annoyed
Annoyed
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
My wife received a call tonight from someone named inspector Victor Black.  He said there had been a civil action claim filed against her and that she needed to contact him immediately at 404-492-7970.  If she did not respond then the sherriff's office would be notified and sent to our home or to her place of employment.  I thought all of this was rather sketchy considering she and I have been married for 3 years and they called her by her former name and did not even pronounce it correctly.  He also called from a different # that what we were supposed to call him back on.  I then typed in both of these phone numbers on the computer and came up with pages of these comments and concerns.  I hope something can be done about this.
Extremely Upset
Extremely Upset
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
My father (who lives in Florida) received a phone call today from these people regarding an account I supposedly have with them.  My father called me and I called them. I asked them to send me something and they refused to do this.  They said that I needed to agree to a settlement or they would enforce what they called the "pretrial" judgment against me.  They even went so far as to say this was fraud on my part and I could be charged with fraud for not paying.  I again told them that I did not know anything about this credit card I supposedly owed and until I saw something in writing, I was not going to pay a penny.  They got extremely rude and asked if I knew who certain people were in the county I live in ( they gave the court clerk's name and the sheriff's name).  They told me that I need to carry two forms of identification on me at all times and to make sure I didn't have any large dogs on the premises when the sheriff's department came to serve me with papers.  I never agreed to anything, but I am glad I read these comments... I now know what a scam they are... My next calls are going to be to the BBB and the Attorney General's Office, as well as the FCC.
I GOT U
I GOT U
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
MY IN-LAWS GOT THE CALL FROM THEM (CLAIMS AMERICA)ABOUT ALOT OF CLAIMS AGAINST ME.AND LEFT A CALL BACK NUMBER OF 404-492-7970 AND A CODE, I CALLED IT AND SPOKE TO THE CON-MEN, THEY ARE TRYING TO GET MONEY FOR A 2001 DEBT THAT HAS BEEN PAID THROUH THE COURTS.($3700.00) I ASKED THEM TO FAX ME A LETTER ON THE DEBT AND WHEN ASKED FOR THE FAX THE MAN PUT ME ON HOLD,WHEN HE GOT BACK ON THE PHONE HE TOLD ME THAT HIS MANAGER WAS SCREENING THE CALL AND WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO ME OKAY. THE MANAGER SAID THAT HE WANTS TO RESOLVE THIS MATTER A KNOWS THAT THAT I WANT TO ALSO. HE THEN WENT INTO LOWERING THE AMOUNT IF I PAY IT NOW, I SAID NO I WANT TO PAY THE FULL AMOUNT?(PLAYING ALONG WITH THE GAME)BUT SAID ME A FAX AND I WILL PAY IT IN 5 MINS. HE SAID OKAY.WHILE WAITING FOR THE FAX I CONTACTED THE STATE ATTORNEY GEN. OFFICE AND THEY SAID THAT THEY ARE CONING ME AND TELL THEM TO KISS YOU BUTT THEY ARE NOT GETTING ANY MONEY.A COMPLAINT WAS FILED AND THEY ARE LOOKING INTO THIS CASE.
Bill Collector
Bill Collector
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
Same tricks,  they attemped to contact me via my DEAD mother (she passed in 1997), and got to my fathers new girlfriend of 7 years #.They had the wrong last 4 of SS#. I told them to suck my Ba**s. They claimed they were invetagators, I told them they are breaking the FAIR CREDIT ACT OF 1967.  They said they DIDNT CARE. They attempt the SCARE tatics,all they are is debt collectors calling off a list, and they break ALL laws desiged to protect the consumer.( I owned and operaterd a Repo Co for 9 years )My code name before selling my company was Bill Collector, no name they give you is a real person either.
Moe
Moe
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
I'm sure we are all wondering why these people are still allowed to use this phone number and why are they not sitting in jail??? By this time they should have been apprehended and shut down,ya think?
Timothy
Timothy
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
I just got a call from them and they threatened to sue me if I don't pay them. They said that they can't give me any information about them or the case until I pay. So basically it was pay or get sued. They called back 3 times and then finally said "good luck with you case, see you in court" They said that they were going to have the Sheriff serve me with papers soon. I am glad I found this site and saw that others are getting the calls. This helps me a lot.
Jill
Jill
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
This is soo annoying!! My father sent me a text message asking me to call him "ASAP!!!". I called and he frantically was saying that he received a phone call from a woman who stated that I (under my maiden name) left his name and number as an emergency contact number... first of all, I am a married adult and do not need to leave my parents as an emergency contact in a financial transaction, secondly, I pay my bills. Anyway... my dad stated that they left a number and a case number as they were filing a CIVIL SUIT against me for an upaid debt and needed him to contact me to get this resovled over the phone tonight. I was shocked for a moment and as I sat here racking my brain what this could be about my home phone rang and wouldn't you know it... the same number that was left with my dad was calling my house!!!! I immediatley put the phone number in Google.com and noted this website! Thank GOD!! I was almost going to call them back, but now I see that I don't need to. The only call I need to make is to the AG Office.
sue
sue
2011-06-06 20:47:38
Unknown
These people are calling about a claim for my dad. How come they didn't contact him? After reading these comments now I understand this is a SCAM. What could we do to make sure these people pay for what they are doing?
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