Received a call from someone stating he was Mr. Dunham with CRS regarding a debt.He then referred me to a Logan Mitchell at 1-866-583-9807-legal dept;he gave me some figures pertaining to some debt with a mastercard from years ago wanting to settle.I took his number and name and told him I will review my credit report with my lawyer and will then return his call.He still tried to suggest I settle out of court.Coincidently,he (Mr.Logan) and Mr. Mitchell sounded as if they were the same man.He also stated he was working for the law office-Hillsberg&associates out of Georgia.He stated Mr. Dunham worked with him at the above number EXT. 315.

PLEASE CONTACT US at the following EMAIL --WE HAVE THESE SCAM ARTISTS RECORDED ON A WAVE FILE AND WE'LL GIVE YOU A COPY.

brianjusticewright@gmail.com  

THE MAN HAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN ACCENT AND STATES HIS NAME IS ALEXANDER O'NEAL!

Got the call for my brother at my house (from 866-583-9807).  He doesn't use my home number for anything.  The person that called used the name:

Nicole Atkins

Left a message on the answering machine about a 'cim' complaint.  Failure to call back will result in legal action taken.  

Thanks for this site, I will definitely not call back.

Forgot case number info they used:

Case number CCS1463

My mother in law got a call from these people yesterday.  They threatened my husband with a dishonorable discharge, said they would send people to Iraq to serve the summons (what a laugh), and would bring him home from Iraq to go to court (I'm sure his commander would go for that...).  They would not give her any info when she thought it was about her husband (my husband and his father have the same first and last names) but told her it was imperitave that I call immediately when they found out it was mine.  She only had the phone number, case number, ext 313, and the names Tiffany Anderson, and Angela Mancini.  Sounded fishy to me.  I checked my husband's credit report, just to be sure, and one of the credit bureaus had locked the account access due to failed login attempts.  Neither my husband (currently in Iraq) or I had tried to access this.  Reverse lookup on this number came back with nothing, so I called after hours last night, and got the ompany name.  (and here I am... go fig)  I called my home state's attny gen's office and JAG this morning.  I then called the "company" knowing what I was in for, but playing dumb.  When the lady answered, she started to give one name, but changed her mind, got flustered, and I couldn't even tell you what name she used.  She asked me who I was, and I told her it was about my husband (whose name they already had).  She told me it was an unpaid credit card from 99, that went delinquent in 04, and that she needed me to give her my husband's SSN.  This account does not and has never existed.  I told her as much.  She said it was just her job to inform us of the lawsuit, and that it probably had just not showed up on his credit report yet.  I evaded the request for the SSN, and when she asked to confirm our address, I told her it was not ours.  (what I didn't tell her was that it was his when he was growing up.)  I asked her if I shouldn't just call the credit card company, and she assured me that it had gone too far, mentioned Hillburg & Asscoiates, and wanted me to verify other addresses.  I ignored her questions and started asking my own, at which point she became very unhappy with me.  (poor dear)  She then told me that I was being very uncooperative (ya think?) and that if my husband did not call them within 48 hrs (from iraq?) that further legal actions would be taken.  Then she hung up.  With my newly freed phoneline, I proceeded to call the Better Business Bureau (they're so nice) and they directed me to the Federal Trade Commision's website (see?  wasn't that helpful?) where I filed a nice little complaint as well.  I can't wait to talk to JAG, this is getting to be fun.

Several calls received for a Denise Summers(?) at our home. Last one being Wednesday, 3/25/09. Caller had our name but wouldn't say what call was about. Has been told numerous times that DS is unknown to us and does not live here. Even had a call from local telecommunicator in early AM hunting this DS. Complained to local Director of Comp Center about call and handling by communicator. Called Verizon told to google the number and then report to Atty Gen Office.

I got a call from this number his name was Brian Cross I looked up the number in Google and found this site. I will call brian tomorrow with my attorney and see if we cannot get this resolved. Brian exact words were "I have a civil suit that has been filed against you in Dallas and if I do not get a call within 48 hrs further litigation action will be filed against you"

They called, Tiffany Anderson from "Court Reporting Service" to inform me of a filing in our county court. She had a great deal of information about an account closed in 1999 paid in full. This information included my social, address and name (current and previous). When I did not agree to negeotiate a payment over the phone, I was told that I would be served by the court and would have to pay a variety of additional fees and charges etc.  I was informed that I could only have specific information about this "debt" after an evedenciary (sp?) hearing.  Anyway,  This is BS an I believe that a scare tactic intended to victimize individuals.  I will wait patiently for the supoena and will attend any court date set if that is what it takes to get information.  I am pretty sure that I will be waiting a very long time.

I WAS CONTACTED BY CRS ALSO AND I FOUND THEM TO BE VERY HELPFUL. I ALSO SEEM TO KNOW THAT THE ONLY ONES COMPLAIN IS THE ONES THAT DONT WANT TO PAY THEIR DEBT. ADMIT TO YOUR WRONGS NO MATTER HOW LONG AGO IT WAS. WHEN I READ THE MESSAGE ABOUT THE DEBT BEING PAID IN FULL(COME ON NOW) DID THEY ASK U TO SEND SOMETHING PROVING THAT? DID U?

For anyone writing in that CRS is helpful.....possibly you met up with an individual who was polite on the phone, but what they are doing is NOT helpful in that they are what is known as ghost debt collectors, who usually do not have the statute of limitations on their side, and who try to intimidate others with supposed legal action being taken.  It is NOT helpful or ethical to go after others who may have had difficult times due to divorce or medical bills years and years ago, and then use every means in the book to get them to reveal information that might lead to another lead to pursue their shady dealings.  Sorry, the poster before this probably works for CRS.  Otherwise there would be more compassion on others who are facing these kinds of threats.

got a call today, 4-08-09; they were looking for my in law. said a civil complaint was filed. i asked several questions that they couldn't answer. caller was articulate and very calm. when i googled this "capital revindication services" this site of blogs came up. very suspicious.

I got a call today (April 13, 2009) from Heather Laney at CRS saying that my SS# had been used to co-sign a loan on a car for a Mr Johnny Begaye and that they were filing suit to collect the debt on this loan.  The loan amount was $7994.82. I said I had never cosigned for anyone, that this was fraud. Heather said she would put her supervisor on the phone to see how how to proceed.

Tony Marquette came on and told me they were authorized to make settlements and that I could pay $1000.00 to clear the debt. I told him he was scamming me, that he had no authority to settle or try to pursue a claim against me since I did not cosign any loan. I asked for his company address: 931 Monroe Dr., Suite 102-268 Atlanta, GA 30308

Someone named Traci Morgan called my parents today saying I was being investigated.  My dad called and talked to my husband and when my husband called these people back, they said I was being sued and gave my husband all of the information on the (invalid) debt they were attempting to collect.  They told my husband that if I called in they could work something out regarding this alleged debt from 1998.  I am so irritated that they would call my parent's home.  Does anyone know if there is a class action suit against them?

Left message on answering machine saying they were investigating a claim filed against me, and if I didn't respond, legal action could be taken.  No pertinent information was given.  Sounds very fishy to me.

got a call just like this- same # ID herself as Monica Stevens. said she is trying to prevent a civil lawsuit against us in Mercer,AZ???? Attorney name- Hillburg. Sounds like Mr Hillburg is a very busy man- covering all of the US- what a scam, scare tactic. DO NOT GIVE ANY PERSONAL INFO!!!!!--Even though they will say you are being condescending, arrogant and that they are JUST trying to help you to avoid litigation. Cll you AG office immedialtey. Call your local nesw. Warn all your family, friends and even enemies.

I just received a phone call from this same number. I don't have caller ID, but I did *69 after I hung up out of suspicion. The caller, a female who didn't identify herself by name, said she was from "court reporting" and that there was a pending civil suit against me. She verified my name, and then she *tried* to verify my social security number, which was what made me suspicious. When she tried to verify my SSN, she read off the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th numbers, so I obviously said, "No, that's not mine.", without giving my real SSN. She sounded a bit 'shocked' when she said, "It isn't...?". I told her, "No.". She then quickly dismissed the call and hung up without so much as a "good-bye".

I, personally, do not believe this is even a valid collection agency as others have stated. If it were, they would have the proper information, including my real SSN. Collection agencies are supposed to identify themselves as such. Impersonating a federal or state employee(a court reporter) is illegal.

A Jennifer Lewis called and left a message supposedly from "Court Report Services" which is really Capitol Revendication Services, a collection agency operating under their "associate" Hillberg & Associates in Atlanta GA.
She said a civil suit is being filed against me and she needs to speak to me before the paperwork is filed. She left a case # CAPXXXX.
I called back and got Mr. Dunham. He said a credit card est. in 1999 was owed for $1794.00. Seems suspicious that most of these cases listed here are for the same time frames and under $2K right? I assured him I do not owe this. He asked me to fax him proof to fax # 678-528-8338.I will not do this.
Collection agancies do not file "civil suits" in court, they just keep pestering you until they sell your debt off to someone else for pennies on the dollar. Then the new agency pesters you, etc., on and on. Unless you are lucky in PA where another post says there is a statute of limitations.
How can we stop these frauds?

Same thing, called to ask for my dad, and didn't want to divulge the information of the call. said it was a lawsuit. I heard a whole bunch of background chatter too.

I asked if they were telemarketers, and she said no. *lie* why are they still allowed to call people?

These guy's are TRULEY a SCAM....BEWARE.... I decided to scam them myself....Update to follow...6/5/09..What a BLAST! Stay tuned...We got em"

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Sorry Pushed the done button before I was done...These guy's are TRULEY a SCAM. I have decided to scam them myself..Wait till you here the results!! I am truley exiceted to finally catch these theives!!.WHAT A BLAST!!!! Update to follow. Get ready cause we're gonna get'em!!!!

Listen.....Why don't we all get together and come up with a barier thet they cannot break??? If all of us get together and continuosly make phone calls to tie up ther lines ,then they will have NO open lines to harrass anyone else. After all, in this day and age, I can't imagine that you could survive from stealing money from REAL people. We are smarter than them. I can almost guarantee that they are not intelligent enough to handle the REAL GAME..I am positively sure that they have total access to the internet so they could be reading this right now. If we all decide to BAND TOGETHER we can FORCE these guy's to go away...Anybody interested ..please respond..You are not ALONE!

This company has called me multiple times, as well as different members of my family.  The information they provided me was incomplete and incorrect.  The caller sounded as if she were reading from a script.  She told me that I would receive a summons; I'll let you know if that actually happens.  I asked to not be called again, and she said that CRS is not a collections agency and is therefore not subject to call laws that collections are.  I asked to speak to a manager.  The manager's name was Logan Mitchel.  The address he gave me for CRS was 931 Monroe Dr.

OK folks.  My brother called me today to inform me that his wife had listened to their answering machine with a message from Wyatt Dent regarding a civil lawsuit filed in southern California.  Like many of you, I did some very basic research to find this site, among others.  CRS evidently picked the initials so that they could use multiple legal and/or collection names, (Capital Revindication Services, Court Reporting Services, et cetera) in order to further their scam.  If a company is legit they don't need subterfuge to accomplish their goals.  
I am an attorney here in California and just from the single telephone call to my brother I can see violations of the law.  Most glaring is the fact that they threaten with a lawsuit...not even close to legal.  I am also a JAG and while Failure to Pay Just Debts is a violation of the UCMJ, a civilian does not have the ability to discharge anyone.  While I suppose it's possible, the notion of a discharge or administrative seperation of any sort based on an upaid bill is so highly unlikely as to border on the absurd.  Service members don't let these creeps scare you.  Additionally, the whole idea of serving process on someone in Iraq or anywhere overseas for that matter, and/or dragging someone off from deployment is nonsensical.  Evidently these nitwits have never heard of the Service Member's Civil Relief Act (which prohibits the filing of any new civil suit while the service member is deployed, and tolls current suits).  Take a hard gander at the law and set up a meeting with your own JAG if this is going on with you or a spouse.  Perhaps a bit more on that in another post if this thing goes any further.
While tying up their phone lines will not likely meet with much success, I have to admit Tina Maria has a solid point when she suggests fighting back.  I'm not giving any legal advice or establishing an attorney-client relationship with anyone, but it seems to me that with all these people have done and the consistent violations of the law, there may be cause to believe they are engaged in a provable criminal enterprise.  This could possibly be pursued in Federal Court with a civil RICO complaint, or with a criminal RICO complaint if some prosecutor wanted to pick it up and run with it.  Just a thought.  That could mean jail time, and no one wants to dread taking a shower every day...or wondering what horrific things the thugs working in the kitchen have tossed into your food.  Let your imagination run with that one.
Good luck everybody.

The problem with these types of companies - and they have existed for so long, they are right there beside 'the oldest profession' - is they don't operate like any entity with a morality or conscience, like a real corporation or individual might, so no laws or rules scare them. In this particular company's case, well, it's a group of largely African American ex-cons working out of ghost offices around Atlanta, Ga. for a couple of collection 'law firms' owned/run by some memebers of the Hebrew faith. So, they will NEVER actually follow thru on anything - they won't spend the money! What they do, and have done, is try to grab credit card numbers/bank account info from people they are able to intimidate/scare/embarass through these illegal methods, and then double and triple charge the account and say it was a mistake. Yes, all that they do is a crime, but do you have the time to pursue them? No. They know that. And broke people don't have the time or money either. There are some state AG's on their tail, but those guys get bogged down, so ... What you should really do is NEVER return or engage them in ANY communication, they WILL go away. They just want live, scared bodies, and when one doesn't fall out of the tree, they move on. You will NEVER get anything filed against you, they don't have the time or money, either. Most of what they run down has the statute of limitations expired on it, anyway. People just don't know that. So, best idea? Ignore them.

My sister in law received a call this morning from Cole at CRA 1-866-583-0814. After finding this site, I decided to call them.
Before dialing, I pressed *67 to block my number. As I started to explain that my sister in law received a call he interupted me and said is this (my Name). THEY STILL HAD MY NAME EVEN THOUGH I BLOCKED IT!!They said they had to confirm who I was first, and when they said my SS#, I told them it was wrong. The guy then read off my name, including my maiden, my address, what type of business I own, etc. The guy got really p*ssed off when I wouldnt confirm that he had the correct last four of my SS#. I just kept saying that I was, in fact, the person they were looking for. I kept telling him it was me, but I wouldnt confirm the last four digits of the SS#. He said that legally, he had to confirm it was me by the last four digits I still refused to confirm it but kept saying "Yes-- I am {my name}". I got him so mad he hung up on me. So I called back again!! and after spinning their wheels for a few minutes, I got hung up on again! So what else could I do but call back again!!I stayed on the phone with some guy who said that this was not going to go away, and it would continue to screw up my credit for years. I told him my credit couldnt get any worse than it already is so it didnt matter. Then he said "Well, you're not going to be able to do anything-- not buy a house..."  I told him "I already own my own home-- so now what dumb a**?" When he said "so you are refusing to pay?" I told him no, I wasnt. I told him I wanted to review the acct, and I wanted more info. He wouldnt tell me how long they had had this acct or who they bought it from, or who would be getting the money if i did send a payment, stating it was "priviliged information". He said he was going to note the acct as "REFUSAL TO PAY" and i kept telling him i was not refusing, and that i was requesting that he send me the info on the acct so i could review it. (I know better than to agree to that, because if they did take me to court, I wouldnt have a case at all) Then he tried giving me a lecture on ethics and morals!!  After ruffling his feathers for about 10-15 minutes, he finally got so mad he said "now that we can block your number, I am going to hang up on you!!!" And he did! I called back again and the call would not go through!! Oh, how sweet it is to give them a taste of their own medicine!

I hope that anyone else that has received calls from these people will try this. Although my blood pressure went thru the roof, I feel SOOOO GOOD!!! The time that I wasted on the phone with them was time they didnt have to spend SCAMMING SOME OTHER POOR PERSON WHO DIDNT KNOW ANY BETTER!!

Since they blocked my home number, I am going to use another phone to call again. This time im going to act really nice and sweet and stupid, make up some common name and fake social, and see how long i can get them to chase their own tails before they figure it out. And before they hang up on me, I just might end it first with something like "By the way....(my name) wants to know if youve sent the paperwork yet!!"

Do not respond, return calls, or say anything to these people. Apologize to your relatives and tell them it's scammers who got some numbers, and then just wiat for the 'summons' - hint -> you won't get one! These are crooks ...

They find relatives names(oldest rick in the collection business) and try to embarrass/harrass you ... and they use a false company name (CRS) to distance themselves from Hilburg(maybe a collection agency, with no hope of collecting, so they turn it over to these untracable gorillas) - ignore them is your best choice! They are breaking so many laws, it's unreal ...

they just called saying yhat my mom is being sued, they didnt want to tell me who was suing or nothing; if she would have being sued some type of mail would have been recieved.

Received call on 12/11/0 from 866-583-9807. Caller stated that a family member had a civil complaint filed against him.  I replied, "I can't help you".  The same evening, my daughter was called with the same message.  She refused to speak to caller.  Please let me know what you find out about this caller.  Thank you.

My mother received call on 12/12/08 that if I did not call 866-583-9807 immediately a civil suit would be filed in Hubbard County against me. My brother called the next day with the same information. Quick internet searches (unverified) show that this company operates from a UPS mail box, address of box is;
CRS
Capital Revindication Systems
931 Monroe Drive
Ste. 102-268
Atlanta GA 30308

Called Hubbard County Court this morning, no filings against me, I can check weekly on the county website to see if any claims have been filed.