This guy called saying he was inspector kingsington and he was freezing my bank account for magazines my 36 year old daughter had gotten and didnt pay for.I told him i didnt sign anything and he said she put me as a co signer and i had to pay.I refused and he will not stop calling and threatening me.

I received a call from a gentleman claiming to be a investigator with my states federal courts. said if I paid an amount of 228.00 that day I would be relieved of the contract. when I stated I couldn't do such a thing since I don't have a checking account or a credit card, but I would mail a money order he got disgruntle. then he called my fiancé, after she said she would look into it and he stated he was going home for the day to let him know in the morning(never leaving a contact number). he proceeded to call my employer and threaten them to pay for my bill. I repeatedly ask for the information to be mailed and never get anything. and when this gentleman calls he never gives me his number just threatens with me being in the wrong in federal courts and a warrant is going to be issued today it was my accounts have been frozen. what accounts? my bank had no clue to what I was talking about when I asked them about my account. very rude is what I think of the bs scam!

These people are RUDE. More worried about how they can screw you than how to solve the problem at hand. They need to understand not EVERYONE is a scumbag! I would like to pay for the items I get... IF I WOULD ACTUALLY GET THEM! This has been an ongoing issue for 4 months, and still NO MAGAZINES. They harass me on the phones about collections, small claims court, and attourneys. Then hang up on me... I have told them I havent received anything and even gave my address several times... Its funny though the Bill makes it to my house, but not the product???????

You can say whatever you want to say to defend your self and the scam artists who you hang around with...but lets look at reality here.  What so called company does not leave an address, in which people can locate them? Also who has a private investigator work for them who wont leave a call back number and who hangs up on people? Give these people an address to the so called court in buffalo NY and i can guarantee you there will be more than one person there to meet you harassing con artists face to face!!!!!! I have talked to a laywer,  a state police officer, and obviously i have looked up your little company, or else i wouldnt be responding to you right now. EVERY, EVERY single person i have talked to has said the same thing.......SCAM!!!!!!!!!!! So if it makes you sleep better at night trying to convince YOURSELVES that your misunderstood then go for it. Maybe you should look in the mirror and see yourself for what you really are!!!!!  AWFULLY funny how all these people missed court dates yet.....no one was ever notified by legit authority. You would think all these federal cases and all that at some point and time somone would have recieved a certified letter. Come on!!!!!!  Heres a clue,,why dont you low lifes get a real job and stop living off of everyone else. PATHETIC is what your so called company is. Hopefully you were better talking on the phone than you are at spelling. F.Y.I- crying. NOT CRIEING like you spelled it!!!!!!

Pretty much same exact thing happend to me about an hour ago. They contacted my father and stepmother, my co-worker and were looking for my boss. The funny thing is the private investigator wouldnt leave a number with me and he hung up on me. I pitty somone who has to stoop to that level to make a living. Here we are working our butts off making an honest living and here they are living off scaring people and getting them to pay them free money.  They may not get caught today or tomorrow but they will. they will get whats coming to them

I have also been recieving phone call upon phone call from these clowns who call themselves 716 services. I just recieved a phone call from my father who was frantic!!!! They had contacted my father and step mother and claimed to be a private investigator willing to work with me if an amount of 208 was paid today at 4;00pm by debit or credit card.  They contacted my place of employment looking for my boss and told my co-worker that if she did not give them his private number they would send somone to work and she could get in trouble for interfering with a federal investigation. The investigator told me when he contacted me that i was suppose to be in court last week along with my step mother in buffalo NY. He also told me i would be charged with Federal theft, but he could clear it if i paid the 208.00 by 4:00 today. Ummmmmmm........first of all who has a court date and doesnt get notified by mail or certified letter???? and second of all who the hell do they think they are telling my father they are going to freeze his and my stepmothers accounts?? Im just waiting for 4:00 to roll around......

I am doing some digging and just running in circles. If anyone has a phone number or an address or any information at all that they would be willing to share with me in regards to finding these people please send the information to me. I will be delighted when I have a chance to speak with these people again.

my email is zestoeren@gmail.com

Can anyone find out how to get a phone number name or preferably an address ;) Thank you

How can I do this as well. The woman I spoke with was completely out of line and I am highly upset. I will not tolerate that kind of behavior

i have not been married or have had anything to do w/ his so called co. ask his new wife kathleen briandi- thomas louisos
i have been divoreced since 96

I keep getting calls from this company at work threating me I called to talk to a supervisor the lady said I am a supervisor and she was just as rude she said I was late and have to pay them I told her to cancel my subscription she said oh no we paid them for you I said give them to someone else and harass them she yelled at me and I hung up on  her

Miss, I'm sorry but this is NOT the company.  It is a site where people can attempt to find out who has called them and/or their experiences during the call.

You may want to contact your State Attorney General, the local police, perhaps a private attorney to see if they can assist you in having this company NOT call your ex.

I can not pay my bill due to lay off. Calls from this company are going to my Ex - husband whom I have been divorced since 2005. THIS IS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION. You are putting my life in danger. Do not call his phone number again. My intentions are to pay this bill. I will be sending money. But can't do that if I have no breath or heartbeat. Is anyone listening?!!!

oh, and this sabrina gave me this phone number to have my attorney call her. 800-433-8784

I have received numerous calls at home and were i am employed. Today a lady named Sabrina called me stating that I am scheduled for a court hearing. When I asked her to send the paper work to my attorney, she said that there was no paper work. Like, youre taking me to court but there is no paper work regarding that! What is this company?

Your fault for agreeing to whatever was said to get off the phone     I am sorry to say did  did you think to hang up? You

Oh yeah......so legit, thats why the BBB has over 60 complaints......Your a scumbag !

I was called by these people at work repeatedly about free magazines and to get them to shut up I just agreed thinking at least they would be good in the waiting room.  When they called again to explain the whole thing to me I had my 2 month old son and basically just agreed to everything to get off the phone.  I never realized this was a scam until I looked online to get the address to mail my first payment and I am horrified.  I need to know the best way to get out of the situation as soon as possible.  Please help!!

You are a liar....no company makes you as big a thief as the non existent company. Maybe you don't really exist either. I was dumb enough to let you people get $130 out of me before I researched and found out you are all a scam!

You must be having a lot of trouble finding victims to scam if they can't afford to hire a better liar than you.

Now it's back to the boiler room with you. Better hope the next sucker you call hasn't found this page!

It's not illegal 716 services is the best I love them and there magazines they are all great people Karl is a police officer I know him well I know all of them well great people!

My girlfriend has been receiving harassing calls from seven-one-six services since last year. We agreed to 4 magazines for our kids and for us as well and paid the $26.00 that was requested for the subscriptions. We were never advised that it would be a 5 year subscription. The magazines came for two months then they stopped so we figured we were done with them..... WRONG... Then the harassing phone calls started coming in. A woman started calling I can't remember her name but it was probably fake anyway. She stated that she was from 2430 Lawfirm and calling regarding a "personal" matter and stating she could not speak to anyone other than my girlfriend regarding the issue.... She was on the phone with me and my girlfriend verbally consented to her speaking to me because I was sick of the BS and the woman still refused.

This woman has contacted my girlfriend at work, on her cell, on our home phone and is threatening legal action I have told her more than once she has no basis and that we will not be paying for services that have not been rendered. Now someone today called said his name was Karl and was a police investigator looking for my girlfriend. I advised that I am able to speak for her on whatever matter he wanted or needed to discuss with her and asked what it was about.... His response was " That is an illegal question and unless you want to be charged you won't ask it again"!!! Now I am in school for criminal justice and am well versed in the law and there is no law that states that certain questions are illegal or that I can be charged with anything for asking a qualifying question as an authorized party to the matter.

I hung up on him after about 2 minutes of telling him that if he needs to speak to someone regarding a legal matter he can speak with me. Karl called back and stated " Be in my office by 3:00 p.m." I said "Gladly Karl, where are you located" he hung up cuz he knew if I showed up he would get arrested because I would bring the police with me and have him carted off to jail for impersonating a police officer which is a felony. These people are in no way legit and if you get a call from them just hang up, contact the better business bureau as well as their state law enforcement office if you can even get the state where they are located from out of them. Report them enough and they will disappear and if not then maybe a class action lawsuit needs to be started by those who are being harassed by them.

To the "employees" that have been posting on here complaining about our complaints let me just say this....Quit your job before you wind up going to prison for your employer... They are partaking in illegal practices and your higher ups will be prosecuted because I am done with this and I will find a way to bring your company to it's knees before the end of the year. Your boss's are immoral and have no regard for human sanity and well being. I have reported them to the better business bureau on more than 6 occasions and am in the process of contacting a REAL investigator with the New York State Police department to file formal charges for harassment and illegal business practices. In addition I will be contacting any and every federal bureau or agency that can and will handle your employers illegal practices. Your bosses picked the wrong guy to mess with and your done. Happy trails seven one six your gunna burn in this fire.

Niagra Frontier call me at work asking who I was, even though they called me on my business line they wanted MY name. Tried to give me free magazine subscriptions so I said sure. Well, they called me repeatedly for 5 days at work and when I was finally able to answer their call they said a rep would be at my place of work on THURSDAY to give me paperwork and pay them in advance for 2 months of FREE magazines.....weird. Now, they wont answer their phones so i can cancal my order. If they show up, what should I so?

I do receive magazines through them 5 magazines for $3 not a scam i receive sports illustrated, mens fitness, home and garden, health and beauty and maxim. Its real

I accepted and purchased mags with 716 Services and have actually been very pleased.  I do have to say though, that it is a different phone number to which I call when I make my payment each month.  The people I speak with are always very friendly and professional.  It appears to me that there is a group of morons imitating the actual company and causing all these problems.  I receive all my mags that I chose and actually enjoy this offer.  While everyone here has legitimate reasons to be ticked off; please don't let these hooligans impersonating the actual company tarnish your perspective of the real deal.  I wish everyone the Best of Luck getting rid of the harrassing jerks.

Legitimate businesses have a legitimate phone number people can call--that eliminates you as a legitimate business since your phone number cannot be reached or answered, you are a scam

I'm glad you think you can defend being a zit on the butt of society, you people are like the worst scumbags, taking advantage of people, using "trick" and intimidation to try to sell people stuff they don't want, repeat DON'T WANT!!!! Telemarketers are so embarrassed by their jobs they never tell people what their jobs are. You are like wrecker drivers, re[o people, and other lowlifes sucking off the teat of society. Get a real job that gets you off your butt and pays as well as mine, lowlife. And it has nothing to do with the "value" of 5 mags for $13.00 and everything to do with how you go about selling this crud.

By the way.  if it is a collection rep, whay are they trying to sell me magazines?  dirt bag

You are full of it and I am guessing you are one of the con artist who work there.  I just got a call from them and I have no finacial trouble and never have.

16Services Scam, Harassing phone calls, imitating law office, imitating an investigator, threatened with

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My husband (fiancee at the time) was contacted at work by this company and was asked if he would like to

purchase magazines at a discounted price. He then met with a salesrep while at work and purchased a few

subscriptions. What a mistake! We never received any magazines, just bills so he called to cancel and was

told that he could not do so. What company does not allow you to cancel, even if you have to pay some sort

of cancellation fee? But here we were and we hadn't even received ANYTHING! We quickly realized that this

was a scam and decided they would not be getting a dime from us. Then the harrassing phone calls began.

We would be called and screamed at, called "stupid" as well as a number of profanities and threatened with

legal action. Then we got phone calls from someone alleging to work for a law office representing 716

Services but the number they gave connected you with the same automated menu that you get when you

call 716 Services, interesting. We contacted the NYS Attorney General and were advised to submit a report

to them as well as a "Cease Communications" letter to 716 Services. We did both of these things. 716

Services began calling my cell phone and when I asked them how they got the number they told me my

fiancee had given it to them (yeah, right!). I told them to NEVER call my number again and the woman

screamed at me, at work, on MY phone. Almost a year later, my (now) husband and I were returning from a

family vacation, boarding the plane, when he received a phone call from a man whosaid he was an

investigator...couldn't tell us of what...and that he saw that we were on vacation and even knew what state

we were in. SCARY! We called him out and hung up the phone. Then in response to our letter to the attorney

general we received a "contract" that my husband apparently signed agreeing to all this nonsense. The

contract was a photocopy and very obviously cut and pasted from what my husband put his name on and

where he provided his email address. It also had a spot where THEY had written in what magazines he was

requesting, not in his handwriting and not the magazines he would EVER order (my husband is not the

typically "sporty" guy, he would never order "Field and Stream"!) The signature was also forged. Since then

my husband has received phone calls at work, phone calls to his boss, and a letter to his boss requesting that

his wages be garnished. Luckily his boss knows better! We are at our wits end. The latest happened just last

month (this all began over three years ago!) when my husband received yet another phone call at work from

the "investigator" telling him that he had missed his court date. He just laughed, again told him to stop

calling, and hung up but we don't know what else to do. This is HARRASSMENT especially when three years

ago we sent them the Cease Communications letter as advised by the state attorney general's office. I just

hope someone out there realizes that these people need to be stopped and helps out those of us who were

unfortunate enough to be scammed and harrassed by them.

Seven-One Six Services Niagra Frontire Reading Club Got me into trouble by sending a man to my work and

the repeated calls to my work. Miss Jessica from 716 is very rude and a smart elic Buffalo, New York
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I was contacted at my place of empolyment by a persom claiming that I could get magazines for free all I had

to do was pass them on when I was finished. I fell for it and said that was fine. Then I was transferred to a

manager to verify that information. She went so fast and it was hard to understand what she was saying.

A few days later, a man showed up at my work and asked to see me. When he got to me, he said he needed a

check for $26.00 to cover the cost of shipping the first shipment out an that I would need to pay an

additonal amoun of $36.00 after that and that this was a processig fee.

After he left, I immediatly contacted the company (716 Services) and cancelled the "subscription". After

being told that they were cancelling that, I then called my bank because I had given this guy a check. I also

told them that I would be cancelling the check since I was cancelling the servies. She said it was ok. And then

she thanked me for my time and apologized that I was not happy and we hung up. I want to say her name

was Roslie. She wsounded foreign.

Anyhow, ever since this, I have been harassed at work by a pretty rude employee named Jessica. She is very

rude on the phone. One day in a matter of 10 minutes, she called my place of employment 15 times. I have

since been talked to about this. I have told her not to call and she still does.

Yesterday in the mail I got a letter stating that they are going to sue me for $754.00 plus court costs, legal

fees, late fees, and disbursements if I don't pay the arreage of $107.90.

Heads up people, these guys are rude, relentless, and just down right need a life. I hope that an attorney

decides to pick this up and sue them for all the hard times they are causing.

716 Services - Seven-One-Six Services, They do not actually exist as a business in the state of New York.

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I had a very similar experience where a person called me saying he was with (my state of residence) as an

investigator wtih the courts.  He said that I was being held on 2 felony charges, and that I had a court date in

one week from the date of the phone call.  They had contacted me several times with attemts to "collect" on

money owed.  They did not fulfill their obligation to me.  He threatened that I could be jailed for 8 years, but

because of the obsurdity of the claims, he would throw it out.  All I had to do was pay for merchandise

received and a large processing fee.  I called the company and verified that he did work for them and not the

state court system.  They scammed me into paying a lot of money towards this supposed debt.  I follow up

with an attorney who said that this is not an actual company, and that there is nothing to pursue.  The

comany broke many laws, not just FDCPA laws, and there would be a case if there was someone or

something to go after, but there is not.  There are a lot of complaints on the internet about this company.  I

cannot believe that they can keep operating in this capacity and nobody is able to shut them down.  They

have most likely ripped off thousands of honest consumers while they earn a good living doing illegal

activities.  

Caller Type: Debt Collector
Phone Number Owner: 716 Services
Phone Number Report: This scumbag who represented himself as an "Investigator" first for the State of NY, then just as an Investigator, but an Officer of the Court, said I owed them debt which, hilariously is something I paid in full almost 2 years ago. His name was Joseph Staffer, which is probably made up, and he claimed failure to appear and Federal Mail Fraud charges. These are lies perpetrated by paid liars that don't even have current or legitimate information. They are breaking Laws by impersonating officers of courts or law enforcement officials. A simple visit to the FTC website shows they're being investigated for fraudulent & erroneous debt collection & illegal collection practices. Do Not be Conned by them into paying them any money, they should be Exterminated with Extreme Prejudice for the slander & libel and lies they are perpetrating. File a complaint on them, report them to your State AG, go the full length as Scumbags such as these think they'll get away with it as long as they think individuals won't fight back. Since I spoke to this Clown, naturally they haven't called back but I'm sure their just gonna wait little while and try again, at which time it's only a matter of time before they slip and there'll be more info to hang out here about them.