Trying to settle a debt of a Citibank Verizon Calling Card that never existed. Caller attempted to get creditb card info to settle fraudulent debt.

Heres a news article on the fools your dealing with


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100105/ap_on_bi_ge/us_debt_collection_capital

Here's a news report from a CBS affiliate about the RSI/CMC scam:  http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=8757336

called and threatened to  take our home unless we paid them for a credit card we have never had. Threatened us with court proceedings, etc. Knew everything about us, ss#, old addresses, etc. We told them to send us the paperwork backing up their claims and they hung up on us. Very intimidating and wouldn't back off. We put credit holds on all bank accounts and called the local sheriff.

Recieved a call on the 25th didn't recognize the number so I didn't pick up let the answering machine get it. Tamara Phillips left a message that a claim had been filed with her office and that I needed to contact her at 678-916-5966 and reference case number BSL (B=bull S=Sh*t )blah blah blah.Anyway it sounded legal and since I had no legal issues didn't bother calling back. The next day new message when I got home. A civil suit was filed against me and if I did not respond in 48 hours they was assume it was me and proceed. I called got a rushed through version that was so incoherent I barely caught it offering to transfer me to the resolution department to settle and old debt or civil suit would be filed in my county. I was like WOE" I said what debt and WHO ARE YOU? She said they were a consulting firm but they were collecting information in order to collect a debt. I told her they would then have to be a collection agency which she denied. I asked who their client was and she said Murray, Bradshaw & Associates, I asked her to spell it and she couldn't so she transfered me to Trevor Mckinney Long story short I told him they were a collection agency and what he was doing had to be illegal. He told me I would be served a summons and I could dispute the matter in court. I said thank you and hung up. Then I started searching and my what did I find. I did a comprehensive search of the Bar Association in NY CA and GA for Murray, Bradshaw & associates. Couldn't find them anywhere in any of those states even the yellow pages online didn't have them. I started a google search for the individuals I spoke with and low and behold Tamara Phillips is an actress and Trevor Mckinney is the charater in the book and movie Pay It Forward. I am no longer worried I will be sued for a debt that may not be mine I am worried these people have my old address and some personal information. I filed a complaint with the FTC but have to call and amend it since I have since found their website and address which they wiggle around and didn't give me. This was a bad experience for me almost gave me a heart attack but thanks to it I am better armed with more consumer rights information then I ever had the inclination to look up before so thanks RSI. I will be better armed next time something like this happens, because I know my rights.I wonder if we look up all the alias' if they are all actors or characters in movies.

http://www.rsiclaims.com/Contactus.html

This scam operation calls from many numbers, most of which have a Georgia area code and have many complaints filed on 800Notes.

Here's all the information on these crooks:

http://budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/cmc_recovery.htm

As Bud Hibbs' report indicates, these crooks are actually in Buffalo, New York, operate under many dopey aliases (CMC Recovery, Claims America, RSI, National Service Processors, etc.) and falsely represent themselves as being physically located in Georgia.

There are two Georgia addresses associated with this scam. One address in Georgia -- 5295 Stone Mountain Hwy, Stone Mountain, GA 30087 -- is actually the location of a Mail Boxes, Etc. storefront. In other words, the RSI/Claims America scam's Stone Mountain "office" is just a rented private mailbox.

The other Georgia address used by this scam is:

2483 Heritage Village, Suite 16-324
Snellville, GA 30278
(404) 287-0204

Unsurprisingly, "Suite 16-324" is not a suite but another rented private mailbox at The UPS Store in the Heritage Village shopping center:

The UPS Store
Heritage Village Shopping Center
2483 Heritage Village
Snellville, GA 30278
Phone:  (770) 979-7011
Fax:  (770) 979-5711
http://www.theupsstore.com/locations/locdet.asp?strCenterNum=MBE1063

So don't let these scammers worry you. It's a handful of petty grifters hiding out in Buffalo, NY trying to swindle you out of your money.  Ignore their illegal threats and report their extortion attempts to the following:

1) File a complaint online with the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov  Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by an extortionist over the phone and give them all the details.

2) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone.  Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.

3) These grifters maintain rented private mailboxes in Georgia and (falsely) represent themselves as calling from Georgia, so file a complaint with the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs: http://consumer.georgia.gov/00/channel_title/0,2094,5426814_39102589,00.html

4) These crooks are operating in New York and are associated with this address: 3835 Bailey Ave, Buffalo, NY 14226, so file a complaint with the New York Attorney General at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/complaints/complaints.html or 800-771-7755

5) File a complaint your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org

6) File a complaint online with The Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

7) File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau:  https://odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/NewComplain ... D=2&countryid=1

You can also sue these thieves. For more information on protecting yourself from crooked debt collectors and suing them, check out these websites:

http://www.naca.net/debt-collection-abuse/
http://www.fairdebtlawyers.com/
http://www.myfairdebt.com/
http://www.budhibbs.com/First.htm
http://www.consumercounselgroup.com/
http://www.creditlawnetwork.com/

This is only one of many numbers this CRIMINAL outfit calls from.

Follow Bud Hibbs' advice and report these morons to the authorities!

Agency Details

RSI Investigative Services
RSI Claims Processing Services, LLC
aka/CMC Recovery
aka/Claims America
National Services Processors
aka/ "EDI" Emanee Development Inc
Aka/Murray, Bradshaw & Associates,
Attorneys at Law

3385 Bailey Ave., Suite #8  
(Click for Google map)
Buffalo, NY 14215

CALLS ROUTED THROUGH GA NUMBERS:

PHONE: 404-492-7970 & 404-287-0204
678-392-1168        770-881-7088
Local: 716-462-4971 (Emanee Development)
FAX: 404-592-0173
Head Debt Collectors:

Lamond Marquis Cooper,

Convicted Felon, (drug dealer)

(Aka/Lamond A. Conrad, Lamont Ashley,

Lamond M. Burns, Lamond Marqus Cooper,)

Jahaan McDuffie, Convicted Felon

Donte Lee, Convicted Felon

If you have had dealings or contact please get in touch with us.  We'd like to see your letters, faxes or recorded tapes concerning this agency.


Bud Says...

CONSUMER ALERT:                 January 2008

WARNING: THIS ORGANIZATION IS A CRIMINAL SCAM!  

DO NOT FALL FOR THEIR LIES, THREATS OR INTIMIDATION.

This is a criminal organization, not a law office, and they are ripping off consumers at an amazing pace. NOTHING they threaten will ever happen.  They are NOT INVESTIGATORS or LAWYERS -- They are DEBT COLLECTORS, many with Felony Convictions and Severe Drug Habits.

They are not operating out of Georgia.  They are on the run from the law and a large number of unpaid bills and judgments.

That makes them Dead Beat Debt Collectors!

(We received this email from a former employee; we contacted the offices numerous times to verify the information prior to publication, with no one willing to discuss this matter. CMC and the related organizations did operate at one time out of Stone Mountain, GA. We have information that suggests they left GA after running up tens of thousands of dollars in defaulted judgments. The majority of the judgments resulted from civil claims by consumers who they threatened by violating both federal and state laws. They are now operating out of Buffalo, NY as a criminal debt collection office, posing as phony investigators attempting to bilk consumers out of money that they do NOT legally owe.)

The office is owned by Lamond M. Cooper, aka/Lamont Cooper, Desmond M. Cooper,

(Dob: 07/16/1975 ? FBI #870930TA4 ? State ID#2033223T)

Jahaan McDuffie and Donte Lee. All three are convicted felons an ex/current

Drug dealers. They teach their employees to lie to the debtors to get paid

On debt that are out of statute. They purchase debt with their drug money and add hundreds to thousands of dollars to the debt and have the debtor believe they are entitled to an out of court settlement.

Their caller id shows Atlanta, GA, they are using ?Phone Spoof? to fool the debtors.

ALL CALLS GET ROUTED TO THE BUFFALO ADDRESS.

There is no attorney office of Murray, Bradshaw and Associates. This agency is a complete farce.  They gross at least $250,000 per month and its pure profit...everyone in the agency is related somehow so that the scam/scheme and play on.

Warn anyone contacted by them NOT to pay and NEVER give them any information on your bank or credit cards, they will steal your money!

NOTICE: If you have information to add to this report, please contact us. If you are named in this report and feel the information is inaccurate, please contact us immediately so that we can take the necessary steps to insure that only accurate information is being reported about these "agencies"and individuals.                                                                Email: cap@budhibbs.com

http://www.budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/cmc_recovery.htm

They found out about an old credit card (8+ yrs ago) of ours that was fully paid-up, but they called and said that it was delinquent. They said they had a deputy with them and were going to seize our home if we didn't pay them a significant sum of money the same day. Looking back, realize it was stupid to give the credit card info, but we gave them the credit card for fear of losing our home.

Called original card provider and asked whether there were any delinquent accounts. They said that the account is fine.... I got nabbed.

Now trying to dispute charge with current credit card company since the charge was under false pretense and CMC has not (nor will not) deliver on services indicated over the phone. To my surprise, credit card company didn't care about calling authorities (FBI or whomever).