tell them to take further action and you will be very happy to let a judge sort it out.  No legitamite collection agency will contact you about your mother's or someone else's account.

THEY CALLED AND IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS THE "DISCOVERY ASSET GROUP" AND SAID THEY WERE ABOUT TO TAKE FURTHER ACTION ON MY MOTHERS ACCOUNT. THAT SHE HAD 24HRS TO RESPOND. LEFT THIS NUMBER TO CALL BACK. SCAM!

Yes this does violate the law. No collection agency can tell you they are going to sue you unless they are an attorney. I suggest you call them back and tape record the conversation in hopes that they say something about wage garnishment, suing you or any legal action. If they do your attorney will eat them alive.

Rec'd message today stating they need me to call them back to give them some statement.  FIle number 1507921. Claimed there name is account discovery systems. Call back right away before the account goes any further. I have no clue who these people are but have had several threatening calls and all of them have been scam's from New York area. return call number 855-212-9412

Message indicates this is a serious Matter in regards to your personal info.  Need a statement from you or your attorney today.  #1478879.  The message ends with the statement, "This message is intended solely for Vic Tine  Nuyen" (spellin) and is received several times a week.  I am not this person.  The company is identified as Account Discovery Systems and touts Loss Recovery.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, is warning consumers to be on the alert for scam artists posing as debt collectors. It may be hard to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and a fake one. Sometimes a fake collector may even have some of your personal information, like a bank account number. A caller may be a fake debt collector if he:

is seeking payment on a debt for a loan you do not recognize;
refuses to give you a mailing address or phone number;
asks you for personal financial or sensitive information; or
exerts high pressure to try to scare you into paying, such as threatening to have you arrested or to report you to a law enforcement agency.

If you think that a caller may be a fake debt collector:
Ask the caller for his name, company, street address, and telephone number. Tell the caller that you refuse to discuss any debt until you get a written "validation notice." The notice must include the amount of the debt, the name of the creditor you owe, and your rights under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
If a caller refuses to give you all of this information, do not pay! Paying a fake debt collector will not always make them go away. They may make up another debt to try to get more money from you.

Stop speaking with the caller. If you have the caller's address, send a letter demanding that the caller stop contacting you, and keep a copy for your files. By law, real debt collectors must stop calling you if you ask them to in writing.

Do not give the caller personal financial or other sensitive information. Never give out or confirm personal financial or other sensitive information like your bank account, credit card, or Social Security number unless you know whom you're dealing with. Scam artists, like fake debt collectors, can use your information to commit identity theft ? charging your existing credit cards, opening new credit card, checking, or savings accounts, writing fraudulent checks, or taking out loans in your name.

Contact your creditor. If the debt is legitimate ? but you think the collector may not be ? contact your creditor about the calls. Share the information you have about the suspicious calls and find out who, if anyone, the creditor has authorized to collect the debt.

Report the call. Contact the FTC and your state Attorney General's office with information about suspicious callers. Many states have their own debt collection laws in addition to the federal FDCPA. Your Attorney General's office can help you determine your rights under your state's law.>

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt076.shtm

Received a call from this number indicating they are a debt collector trying to reach a person regarding a serious matter and that I should involve an attorney..blah..blahblah. I need to have that person contact the office ASAP to resolve this serious matter.

it is a scam and I have dealt with many of these over the past couple of months. They are trying to scare people into paying them but I have actually called the original debtor and they have confirmed that they do not know these people or deal with them. Also, they refuse to send out anything in writing and don't even have the correct details of the debt owed. I am all for paying my debt but not to a company that is scamming me and won't actually apply it to my debt! I have reported them to the FTC and attorney general and I encourage you all to do them same so we can stop this crap! You can file a report right on their websites and it only takes a few minutes.

Don't let them freak you out. Just don't answer. Legitimate companies send bills and notices in the mail. If you do happen to answer, tell them to send you a bill of what it is and why you owe it and hang up. Or just tell them you have told them not to call and you are documenting every time they do, and to keep calling so that when you sue them you willl just get more. They'll stop. They did when I told them that. Of course a couple months later I started gettting calls from some other bogus agency who I imagine they sold my phone number too.. screw them. They are liars and frauds.

The call I just got from this number asked for my daughter, who is seriously ill.  They claimed they had to talk to her attorney or her attorney.

they are still at it---calling from several numbers and hounding the daylights out of me...I have tried to call them to stop the intrusion but to no avail...at least now I know to disregard the calls--I owe nobody anything and the message they leave makes it sound like I may be part of a class action situation that I may be part of...sneaky....

They've also called using the following numbers:

320-281-4542
651-829-8172
612-852-3630

That's right! I'm so tired of these scammers and the whole thing is ridiculous...why do they even bother over a year later? lol

They call every day and its a scam, I told them to file in the county clerks office but they keep calling!

I get calls from this number. I may have a debt, i may not. My old boss used to bounce checks. Who knows where it was charged off from. I have old debts that have been paid. The thing is who the hell behaves like this and expects to get money from somebody. If they were a proper company they would tell you exactly where the debt was charged off from. Legally they can not do anything. Blow me take me to court for the money if i owe it. I once had a debt from  UK bank because they told me i couldn't made transactions from a non UK card to my other card. So in fact they were partly to blame. But i did pay it. I did get a letter and a phone call. And was in fact able to verify that.the bank had authorized them to collect the debt. So i payed it and and have the letter of discharge to prove it.  It as one of the other responders put it. It is. Intimidating. Harassing. Probably fraudulent.

This type of software should be made illegal.. I had one occasion where a debt collector harassed my mother for months. They never told where the debt was from. Turned out it was an old motoring that i thought i paid, and still believe i paid that was never purged from the system. They sent letters to my mothers house with charges for visits they never made.

II would have gone and looked at my bank records form that period but from what i can gather they don't keep records older than 7 years old. That debt was from 2004. Is re-emerged in 2012. Again it is not the fact of whether i owed money, what i paid or what i didn't pay. There are sometimes genuine reasons and genuine mistakes. It is appalling that these company's can stress people out by behaving like this. But anyway that's my blurt. Some w**ker in a basement spinning numbers. Who doesn't even have the balls to leave a real message It also appears that the tone and language of some messages seems to be threatening. Which is appalling when you have never even spoken to a real person. It is unacceptable. It is CRIMINAL. And they probably have ex cons working the phones  Jesus they could not even type my name right.

Posted 30 April 2011 - 05:21 PM

IAG/ International Asset Group
IAG International Asset Group LLC #1
1800 Hertel Ave.
Buffalo, New York, 14216

***SCAM***
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Phone No. 877-287-3204 877-282-6203 716-507-4273 888-727-5888 716-566-9987 716-748-7912 877-260-3025 877-263-7159 716-312-4424 855-848-4845 877-245-5498
Fax

Nelson J. England, Owner Lisa A. England, Owner John H. Chebat, Owner

Notes
Slimy, Junk debt collectors and bottom feeders collecting on usual Buffalo style junk debts.Usual threats of arrest, fraud, etc, serial FDCPA violators, typical Buffalo, NY debt collectors. Good news, they carry insurance, so they may be worth pursuing for ANY FDCPA, FCRA or state violations. Save our money, you get nothing in return from paying them. They are the usual liars debt collector and con men we've see from Buffalo, NY.

Aliases Other Locations
Courtneys Corners BUA Management, Inc.
39 Mona Drive Amherst, NY 14226 (Erie CO)

http://www.collectorsexposed.com/collectors/index.php/topic/1306-iag-international-asset-group/

These folks are calling me at work.  I have no idea who they are or how they found my work number.  They have never once called my home number.  Want to find out who the International Asset Group is and stop them from calling me at work.  Same spiel as with others.  "must call immediately if you want to include your statement in our file etc."  This has been going on for two weeks.

Got a call from 855-212-9412 with threatening message for my son who does not live here.  Adivsed to call back or have my attorney call back TODAY, 5/25/2012.  Checked Internet and found it to be a scam.

I am getting daily calls to my home phone number for someone else.  They said the person they are looking for should call 855-212-9412 and reference number 892723

Received 8 calls from these guys in 2 days.  Called back today and was told my number would be removed from their DB and it would take around 24 hours to be removed.

We are a business and we keep receiving automated messages from this number for a person who is and never has been at our number. After calling the return call number provided and letting it ring over 20 times, a live person finally answered.  
To get your number removed: 1) When the automated call comes in, write down the file number and name of person they are calling for.  2) Call them back at number provided and let it ring until someone answers.  3) Tell them they've reached a wrong number and need to remove it from their database immediately.  Tell them your phone number that they have been calling.  The person I spoke to confirmed the number by calling me back and said they'd remove it from their list.  Hopefully they do!

They call my office number. I called and it just rings. How do you put them on a do not call list.

Serious Matter in regards to your personal info.  Need a statement from you or your attorney today.  #842128.  This is a concern because the number that they are calling is my office number at work and I am not Timothy Culver.

Here's MY statement: If I haven't paid by now, do you really think I'm going too?  Arrest Order? No such thing...but if you wanna try...I'll be waiting on the porch..lmao..mf'ers

Received message on my cell phone (no idea how they acquired it) identifying themselves as "International Asset Group" and requesting a call back to 855-212-9412. I have received numerous threatening messages from them using different phone numbers, including one from a man pretending to be a law enforcement officer (fraudulent intimidation). They can pound salt, I will never call them back.

AUTOMATED CALL DEBT COLLECTOR SCAM

They have been calling me for over a week every hour or so have no idea who this automated scam is from but yesterday they calle dmy Dads house and told him I was inserious debt and they were going to sue me still no idea who they are but they read him what they said was my ssn since he doesnt know it he couldnt verify (but hes 85 and might out of fear if he knew) I think this violates some Laws....

Got a call from this number saying they are with Best Buy and I owe $1200 on a credit card. I need to give them a call or my attorney needs to. I called back the number back.  The guy could not give me anymore info then what was left on my voicemail. He kept asking for my Best Buy account number I told him I don't have a credit card from Best Buy and never have. I also told him this is a scam and hung up. He called right back and left a voicemail saying I need to call back the is a amount owing on my name and SS number.

I have received at least 5 calls from this number on my cell phone.  I blocked the number, but it still goes through to voicemail.  Who are these people?

Not sure who these fools are or why they are calling.  They refuse to discuss anything unless its to get money.  Complete idiots