786-219-0821
FL, US
mike r
mike r
2014-06-25 14:24:18
Unknown
called today ....i called back says none working number
Tred
Tred
2014-06-25 02:41:12
Unknown
Did a search for the principle under First Consumer, Jeff Gombos and found this http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationS ... 2c%20Jack/Page1
Tred
Tred
2014-06-25 00:16:06
Unknown
Yes, First Consumer, FL, Debt Collection, Predatory business tactics, F rated BBB reports, http://www.bbb.org/south-east-florida/busines ... each-fl-5002076 there are some references under other sites, this number, and debt collection.
me
me
2014-06-24 22:00:42
Unknown
For some seniors, $289 buys a lot of necessities.
Lipitus
Lipitus
2014-06-24 18:44:38
Unknown
Called our mid-fl landline at 2.32p on 6/24/14.  They left no msg. Caller ID is FIRST CONSUMER.
Victor
Victor
2014-06-24 18:38:08
Unknown
This number has called numerous times today.  First call was listed as First consumers on caller ID, the other calls were listed as unknown.  If you return the call to let them know you are on to them as a criminal scam the recording states the number is not in service.
BEWARE!
Alfalfa
Alfalfa
2014-06-24 17:54:27
Unknown
We got a phone call from this number, too (it went unanswered)--and your post concerned me enough to do some additional research. I am not for certain if this is the same outfit, but back in March of this year, the FTC came out with a press release stating they had issued a temporary restraining order against First Consumers (this name was on our CID), for defrauding Senior Citizens:

FTC Stops Mass Telemarketing Scam That Defrauded U.S. Seniors and Others Out of Millions of Dollars
U.S. Federal Court Halts the Scam and Freezes Defendants? Assets
FOR RELEASE
March 31, 2014

The Federal Trade Commission has moved to close down a multi-million dollar telemarketing fraud that targeted U.S. seniors across the nation, scamming tens of thousands of consumers.

On March 18, U.S. District Judge J. Curtis Joyner issued a temporary order to halt the scam. Then, after a hearing on March 27, three defendants agreed to court-issued preliminary injunctions, and the court imposed a preliminary injunction against the final defendant, Ari Tietolman and his companies.  In shuttering the scheme, pending trial, the court found that the FTC was likely to prevail and that funds should be preserved so they can potentially be returned to the victims of the telemarketing fraud scheme.

?The defendants? conduct in this case was simply outrageous. They targeted and called senior citizens and lied to them to get their bank account information. Then they used this information to withdraw money from their bank accounts,? said Jessica Rich, Director of the Federal Trade Commission?s Bureau of Consumer Protection. ?Consumers can count on the FTC to be aggressive in the fight against this type of fraud?

Tietolman, the alleged leader of the telemarketing scheme, and his associates established a network of U.S. and Canadian entities to carry out their scam, according to a complaint filed by the Commission. The defendants used a telemarketing boiler room in Canada, where Tietolman lives, to cold-call seniors claiming to sell fraud protection, legal protection, and pharmaceutical benefit services. The cost for the defendants? alleged services ranged from $187 and $397.

In some instances, the telemarketers who carried out the fraud impersonated government and bank officials, and enticed consumers to disclose their confidential bank account information to facilitate the fraud. The defendants used that account information to create checks drawn on the consumers? bank accounts. They then deposited these ?remotely created checks? into corporate accounts they established in the United States. The U.S.-based defendants then transferred the money to accounts controlled by the Canadian defendants, according to an analysis of bank records.

The FTC alleges that the defendants? conduct violated the FTC Act and the FTC?s Telemarketing Sales Rule and that the telemarketing scheme drew in over $20 million dollars between May 2011 and December 2013.

The defendants? businesses include First Consumers, LLC, Standard American Marketing, Inc., and PowerPlay Industries LLC.  First Consumers, LLC is a Pennsylvania company formed in 2010. Consumer complaints and bank records indicate that from at least June 2009 until June 2013, the company scammed consumers using its own name and three other names: Patient Assistance Plus, Legal Eye, and Fraud Watch.  The three other individual defendants who assisted in the scheme are U.S. nationals: Marc Ferry, Charles Borie, and Robert Barczai.

The Commission vote approving the complaint was 4-0. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The FTC received valuable help throughout this case from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases ... iors-others-out

If this is, indeed the same bunch of scammers, the FTC needs to be notified they are back in business.
me
me
2014-06-24 17:04:00
Telemarketer
I answered but then the call hung up. But a quote from the page for 877-509-5290,

"A person identifying himself as Nathan from the "Check Verification" department of First Consumer called my elderly mother.  He claimed to have a check in his hand(with a check number she still had in her possession and had not been used yet) that he believed was fraudulent.  The check he supposedly had was, amazingly, for $289, the "fee" this company charges for whatever service they claim to provide.  Nathan claimed to know that my mother had never written a check to this particular place, so he proceeded to tell her to void this check in her checkbook and scared her into giving the account information on her check so he could make sure this check did not go through the bank. Instead, he used this information to electronically debit my mother's account for $289 using this check number.  "
Luv Call Block!
Luv Call Block!
2014-06-24 16:54:25
Telemarketer
Number blocked. Problem solved.
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