I will let you know I am working full time on this: and I will find out all of his info< he has made it very personal and I have nothing better to do for the next 5 months than make his life a hell on earth...

If you have had calls like this from this number 716-362-7037 you need to contact the police in this area, this is the direct number to the detective who handles this type of telephone harassment, 716-851-4509 and if everyone complains they can shut them down. You can also call this number 888-382-1222 to be put on the Federal no call list? I also contacted channel 2 news in NY at: 716-849-2200
If you have complaints about this number ?716-362-7037? you can also contact Special Agent David Peacock with the FBI in Buffalo, NY the number is:  716-856-7800 he told me he would look into it.

This person who contacted me from this number 716-362-7037 claims to be a US Marshall ? I contacted the Marshalls service in NY and he is not, the number is a sprint virgin Mobil number. I urge anyone who receives a call from this number to file a complaint at www.ic3.gov.  If you received a call from this number it is most likely because you filled out a loan request online with one of these bogus companies that sell your info to anyone. These are Terrorist I am working on getting the contact info on this number, I intend on filing suit pro se and using subpoena power to further gather evidence. Anyone out here who has had similar problems might want to consider a class action suit. There are many firms within the US that might be willing to handle something like this. I am going to file my own suit and try and launch a media campaign against these people?

If you have had calls like this from this number 716-362-7037 you need to contact the police in this area, this is the direct number to the detective who handles this type of telephone harassment, 716-851-4509 and if everyone complains they can shut them down. You can also call this number 888-382-1222 to be put on the Federal no call list? I also contacted channel 2 news in NY at: 716-849-2200
If you have complaints about this number ?716-362-7037? you can also contact Special Agent David Peacock with the FBI in Buffalo, NY the number is:  716-856-7800 he told me he would look into it.

This person who contacted me from this number 716-362-7037 claims to be a US Marshall ? I contacted the Marshalls service in NY and he is not, the number is a sprint virgin Mobil number. I urge anyone who receives a call from this number to file a complaint at www.ic3.gov.  If you received a call from this number it is most likely because you filled out a loan request online with one of these bogus companies that sell your info to anyone. These are Terrorist I am working on getting the contact info on this number, I intend on filing suit pro se and using subpoena power to further gather evidence. Anyone out here who has had similar problems might want to consider a class action suit. There are many firms within the US that might be willing to handle something like this. I am going to file my own suit and try and launch a media campaign against these people?

If you have had calls like this from this number 716-362-7037 you need to contact the police in this area, this is the direct number to the detective who handles this type of telephone harassment, 716-851-4509 and if everyone complains they can shut them down. You can also call this number 888-382-1222 to be put on the Federal no call list? I also contacted chanel 2 news in NY 716-849-2200

This person who contacted me from this number 716-362-7037 claims to be a US Marshall ? I contacted the Marshalls service in NY and he is not, the number is a sprint virgin Mobil number. I urge anyone who receives a call from this number to file a complaint at www.ic3.gov. If you received a call from this number it is most likely because you filled out a loan request online with one of these bogus companies that sell your info to anyone. Immigration Terrorist

These people say that they are calling about and Social Security overpayment and that the are going to sue you. The SS office had no knowledge of this at al

Hello;

I'm not sure who I'm reporting this info to, but I'm having the same issues from a law firm called "Attorney Frank Falzone". I look it up and found one only in New York, but I resdie in Texas and the number that continues to call me is 713-936-2329; probably a collection agency that they ahve hired to call me, but they are calling the wrong per and I've ask them for months to stop calling, but they will not. I then phoned them just recently and stated to them again, to stop the calls, that they are calling the wrong person and they assured me that my number would be remoed and a few days later, another comapny began calling me yet again and stating that same stupid recording "this is an important message for a person with the social security number of a Katherine Rice, but never gives out the social security number and that's not my name.

These people calls me every day or every other day and at times 2-3 times a day. I'm ill dealing with "colon cancer" right now and this is a nusiance, esp. when I'm trying to sleep, so i'm going to file a formal complaint against someone, but I'm not sure who, so I will have to find out who's at the bottom/or top, of all the calls. And I'm about to do it real soon, I can't take it anymore.

I reported them to the BBB online and sent a cease and desist letter.Remarkably they stopped calling and sent an apology letter to the BBB and myself. HMMMM

re: Falzone Law Offices

I  just got a phone call from a Thomas at Falzone Law Associates, wanting me to forward a message to family member-I thought that the call was odd, so I did a reverse look up of the number and found no info. then I googled the law firm and found that it is more or likely a scam!!!

Dealt with them a few months back.  They were threatening my WIFE (had accused me of having a debt) and telling her they had already contacted the Sheriffs  office bla bla bla... Well it was all a LIE...  (I'm a sheriff dep.)  I called them back and told them ALL off... got hung up on... I called them back 3 other times.  Finally I realized they didn't even have the right SS number... So apparently the genius' were just looking through phone numbers with the same name and randomly calling those numbers accusing that person and I just happend to be next in line.  

I initially tried to reason with these total scum eating leeches until they threatend my wife.  I knew there was some mistake involved, but they simply would NOT be reasonable.  I had already checked my credit report when they left a message on my machine (again spewing threatening lies) It was not on my report (which I keep a very close eye on... current score 802) I then of course put a hold on my credit thinking someone had stolen my identity or something...  

COMPLETE LYING SCUM
I asked the "lady" (hardly fitting) how she could sleep at night.  I told her that I had real concern for her children (she told me she had some)

Really crazy stuff...  NO ONE should pay these PEOPLE a DIME even if they do owe a real debt.  They have NO LEGAL ground to stand on whatsoever...

RECORD EVERY PHONE CALL FROM THEM... It is legal in most states in one form or another.  In some states (like mine) you don't even have to have their permission or knowledge.  In others you only have to inform them.

EVEN IF YOU DO OWE A DEBT do not pay it to these sleez bags.

They laid off me for about 6 weeks and just got another call on my answering machine. The girl phone monkey who was calling had trouble reading her script and there were a lot of pauses in her message. Guess the bottom-feeder just hired a new batch of phone monkeys!

This # keeps calling me and they do not identify who they are other than the message says by continuing to listen to this message you are verifying that you are---- and then they say your full name.

Called my home looking for my son...who does not live here and I had remarried so don't know how they got my name.....I had my son call them....they asked him for his SS#....when he asked question called got very rude and cussed him........watch out this is a scam.....we are reporting this to the State Attorney Office ASAP

I receiced a letter from this Law Firm stating that I owed a credit card from Bank Of Omaha. I never had a Visa with this Bank. I told them this and they said it was from 2000 and it could have been another name back then. I said well tell me the name and they couldn't. I said I'm not paying anything that you can't verify my signature to. They then got mad and said we have your mortgage information and I thought where does he think thats he's going with that . A lien on my house, so I said F--K you and hung up on him. This is a SCAM. I ran my credit bureau today to see if this is for real and nothing shows up. I hope that the Attorney that commented above will pursue this for the rest of us. Watch out for scams..be smart to this kind of Bulls--t.

I receiced a letter from this Law Firm stating that I owed a credit card from Bank Of Omaha. I never had a Visa with this Bank. I told them this and they said it was from 2000 and it could have been another name back then. I said well tell me the name and they couldn't. I said I'm not paying anything that you can't verify my signature to. They then got mad and said we have your mortgage information and I thought where does he think thats he's going with that . A lien on my house, so I said F--K you and hung up on him. This is a SCAM. I ran my credit bureau today to see if this is for real and nothing shows up. I hope that the Attorney that commented above will pursue this for the rest of us. Watch out for scams..be smart to this kind of Bulls--t.

I got the same call. said I had debt of 1400.00 and then when i asked for some paper work about after i sent 100.00 ( no recpeit was sent") he got upset w/me saying hewill do what he has to. and hung up. This co called me at 5am two time when asked why acted like he didnt know. Why a debt from ca is in ny and going to send me to court. He also stated he was going to have a warrant put out to have me arrest telling family members and friend  who answered the phone my business and i was going to jail.also that he is from the da office.

I recieved a call today from 716-362-4900. Message states "important message regarding a time sensitive business matter associated with the ss # of "my actual name" This matter has been placed in our office and requires your prompt attention. Please call us at 1 800 403 4920 in order to discuss this matter and reference accout #-----."
If this is a debt collector they are legally obligated to state so when calling. I own a home and if they need to contact my I am sure that they have my address, since they have my phone number.
I will post any written contact.

so, I am one of the ones that learned the hardway.  I kept reading all of these post and ignoring them since everyone said that they were a scam.  Well, they are not.  I actually filed all the complaints (to the BBB, FTC, and to my attorney generals office as well as the office in NY since that is where they are located)

I then went out a got my own lawyer, I explained everything to him that was going on, that I did have this debt at one time, etc but that the way they were "Yelling at me" was uncalled for.  

My lawyer adviced me to send them a debt verification request.  They mailed one to me as well as faxed it to my lawyers office.  My lawyer then ran their bar number and they are legit.  They are a lawyers office, it is just their job to collect debt.  There are lawyers that actually have that as a job.  (I didnt know that)  In the debt verification request letter, I also requested that they no longer contact me by phone.  They are allowed one "uh oh" call after you ask them not to call anymore, but everytime they call after that is a federal offense.   I am keeping a log.  They havent called but one time since they received that letter so one more time and I will have something on them.

As far as the debt, I owe it....  I have to pay it.  They are willing to settle for almost NOTHING if you will work for them.  They were telling me that I had to pay a certain amount and I told them that I couldnt pay that and they knocked off $500 right then and there.  My lawyer informed me that it is better to pay it than to have a judgement against me on my credit for 10 years.  And that can be updated every 5 years making in nearly impossible to purchase anything needing a credit check.  

They can not have you arrested... that is just them talking trying to scare you.  I know that some of the things they say are not nice... but just remember "sticks and stones" Just send them the letter to stop calling and for the verification.  If they can send that to you and it isnt out of the statue of limitations (look that up for your state every state differs) then it would probably be in your best interest to work with them to avoid the judgement on your credit.

Just be up front with them and tell them... look I am willing to work with you, but you are NOT going to talk to me the way that you are.  And there are some there that are really not nice and there are some that are easier to deal with.  

Hope this saves someone the money that it did me going out and getting a lawyer.  

Oh, and someone said that they would only take payment over the phone, that isnt true.  I am overnighting my payment.  So, you dont have to give them any bank info.  

Good luck!

They have been calling me for the past month about a debt that I paid to another creditor almost 2 years ago.

I thought you couldn't cold call a cell phone?

this guy called today - said his name was Ted Wilkinson from Falzone Law firm... said he was following up on a civil suit in which my name had come up as associated with one of the parties. The party he named was my ex-husband. When I confirmed that I knew the name he asked how I knew him. I started getting suspect, so I started asking him questions. His full name, firm name their ph # and location. The more questions I asked him the more hostile he got with me. Until he threatened that if I cared about this person that I better deliver the message and then hung up on me. The ph# he gave me as the firms number was 800-403-4920, with his ext being 120.

A few days ago my brother called me saying that a law office was looking for me regarding a pending lawsuit...meanwhile I'm married and haven't used my maiden name for nearly 12 years so I know that this is bogus.  I've had 3 different bottom feeders call my cell looking for me under my maiden name so I'm sure this caller is bottom feeder #4. "Thomas" was calling from Fazone & Associates.

They've called my house twice looking for my brother. The first time I called them back and got into a fight with them when they wouldn't believe me that he didn't live at my address. They are an insult to true bottom feeding scum bags. And I mean scum bags in the true nature of the term.

I just received a call from these folks asking for a relative of mine. Now the kicker is this number is only 4 days old and the person they asked for does not even live here.

I love the way the comment at the top has no name at all. They didn't even make something up. Then they spout word for word the kind of diatribe that you would expect from the "bottom feeders" would recite.

These cretins have called us on 2 different and unrelated fictitious matters and they always have an attitude.

Sometimes I miss the wild west.

I spoke with these people (Falzone Law Associates) and they insisted I owe a debt from a bank (First Chicago) Visa card. I told them I have never had an account with that bank and they must have the wrong information.

They then said maybe it was my husband or children. I have never been married or pregnant. Then they also started rattling off how I had been informed the call was being recorded (which I had not) and that my rights had been given to me (which they had not - rights for what) and that the "call was being recorded for Harris County" which I explained to the man made no sense whatsoever. I ended up hanging up on him.

This must be some creepy junk debt collector who bought corrupted data and is is torturing helpless citizens. They are scum. Do not answer their calls.

I had the same phone message from this number saying my name and SSAN was attached to a pending court case and I needed to call them back.  The caller had a very deep, scary voice and made me believe I was in trouble.  We all know that no lawyer makes cold calls like that...even though I kept ignoring the calls, they kept calling.  I've left the caller a message and hope they figured out I was on to their scheme.  I've told everyone I know about this scammer...

My husband just recieved a phone call from this company asking for me. He just assumed it was someone trying to sell something so he told them " No one by that name lives here", the man on th eother end said "Then why would she give me this number?". My husband said "I have no clue, sir"! The man proceded to tell my husband that he was lying ( which he was, cause he didn't know who this man was)....and was very rude. I'm now wondering what kind of scam they are trying to pull on me after seeing all these comments about them.....very interesting information....thanks guys.

My EX husband's wife sends me a message telling me that some attorney's office called and left a message on HER home number answering machine..about ME. So apparently she calls em back and speaks with a man by the Name of Erwin Washington who proceeds to tell her that I listed THEIR number on an ORIGINAL CONTRACT for a Cell phone company as MY own contact # ..and even gave her the DATE that this contract was supposedly taken out.  He then proceeds to tell her that SHE can get ME for harrassment for listing HER # as MY contact number...not only that but the ONLY contact #!! She proceeded to tell me that she gave the man as much info on me that she could so he could locate me and serve the SUMMONS that he says he has for me!!

First of ALL, her and my ex live in another state and he and I had been divorced for OVER a year and seperated for ALMOST 3 yrs at the supposed date of this contract..  WHAT type of Attorney would actually give out MY supposed personal information to HER when she said she wasn't me?

This is all crazy and I can't convice her that I didn't use HER number as a contact number.  So, I googled the call back number  800-403-4920..and came up with a TON of websites.

One of the posters on a site said that her EX sister in law who has the same first name as her received a call and they thought it was her.  Hmm..my EX and I have the same first name initial and used to share the same last name.  Guess that's how they got her number...

BUT THE GALL TO TELL PEOPLE THAT THE # THEY CALLED LOOKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE WAS BECAUSE THE SUPPOSED CLIENT WITH A SUPPOSED PAST DUE BILL PUT SOMEONE ELSES # AS THEIR OWN CONTACT NUMBER ON A CONTRACT.

To you scammers..thanks for the extra UNneeded and unwarranted irritation you have caused me..you can bet your booty I won't be calling the number they gave her!

Ted called my home several times and said I was a "person of interest".  This guy represents himself as an attorney, but his office confirmed he was not.  Rather, he is a "partner" in the firm.  They were on a fishing expedition to see if I know who they were looking for.  I encourage anyone reading this to not be intimidated by this guy or this group.  Don't give them any information you don't want them to have, especially social security numbers or credit card numbers.

I recieved a similar phone call today and called the number and the person that answered stated he was an 'associate'... No proper greeting and the person I spoke with refused to give any information other than he was calling from an attorney's office (no name once again) .. I asked him if this was legal since he would not identify himself and the person got hostile and said the police would be at my front door ..which was the last of that conversation since thats all I would allow him to say since I could tell that this bunch is just another sorry group of collectors who think they can intimidate you whether you are actually the party they intend on talking to or not...the 'associate' could not even verify who the person was that he wanted to speak to.... I will also be researching the appropriate department to file a complaint to whether it be the U.S. Att. Gen. ofc or the BBB

Seems like these people are a fraud. They called my family and said that someone in my family owns money, etc. I called them back and they guy asked for my credit or debit card # (which I would not give)..I called back at 10 PM at night and someone answered the phone as "hello"...no professional greeting, etc.. seriously what law firm is open at 10 at night and answers the phone as hello..Checked our credit report and no such name existed in any of the TRW or TransUnion credit report. Don't fall for this please..I am trying to file a complain with the US Attorney General's office...

I'm a attorney! I will be investigating this and if this the said forth company, they will be prosecuted for impersonation, fraud, and any other legalities that transend!