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I have received calls from this number almost every day since I got my new phone number a week ago.  It shows up as unknown and the message is cut in half since it is automated.  I just wish they would call on the nights and weekends when it is free.

Can anyone tell me why I am getting calls from a co. called PCS?  They are also calling my friends and have my cell phone no. which no one has but friends?

Re: JS

So what has happened since the sending of that letter?  anything productive?

Would like to hear back from you.

Thanks
G

After being harrased over the phone and have the supervisor tell me "You do not have enough guts to go against me" this is the letter I wrote to Columbia House about Takhar (what's with the understandable name).

Columbia House Customer Service Center Indianapolis, IN
Columbia House DVD Club
PO Box 91602
Indianapolis, IN 46291-0602

Date: November 13, 2008
Re: Account No. UNKNOWN


Dear Sir/Madam,
   It has come to my attention from a creditor collection agency that I had a pending balance with your company for an account opened under a name similar than mine and not by myself.
This is a letter to dispute the UNKNOWN account referred above.
I have a case in point that this account information is inaccurate with Takhar Group of Companies (877) 466-5701 and my debt has not yet been verified. But it is not my account for the following reasons:
•    Only after I tried to verify the information they obtained all the information they now have.
•    They have me as Francisco Sanaberi
•    The address they have (765 Washington, 5W) was my address 14 years ago (1994) and never again since.
•    My cell phone number (to which they are harassing me over and over again) was taken from a public directory and not from the original account that they have.
•    They refuse to send me written information about the debt for me to be able to verify.

They have continued to list the disputed item on my credit report. This has caused immense inconvenience to my financial transactions. I will be forced to sue you for defamation damages and declaratory relief under the FCRA.

While litigation is not my favored process of dealing in such cases, I will use it just the same to claim my rights.

I look forward to a peaceful resolution of this matter

HEY c get ur goddamn facts straight....i aint workin for any collection agency.....and who the f@#^k is Alex???...i kno what kind of a person u are !!u r the kind of person who dpesnt even hve mny for toilet paper...u hve issues with people who are trying to help u and ur credit but u will not pay because as i sd u are a stinkin racist

They keep calling, calling, calling! We aren't in debit to anyone! They have such outdated information. By no means are they legit as they aren't willing to answer questions, they hang up! Caller ID, Unavailable, Intl Gateway, PCS or even from Kentucky! They refuse to send paperwork to verify who and what they are as a company.  Not one of them speaks proper english and they are suppose to be based out of Niagra Falls NY. Try to find a proper listing for them! Just by the above postings from Alex and Goth, they have to work from that "so called company"...LOL

Hey jack***es. How about not trying to scam people-especially those who are not in default with anyone. I have never had an accoutn with BMG and my name is unique so there isn't any mixing it up with anyone else. And how can so many people have the same reference number for their own individual account if they are allegedly in debt? Critical debt-that's a riot. Loser.

HEY THIS IS A LEGITIMATE DEBT COLLECTION AGENCY SITUATED IN NY
I PD MY DEBT OFF AND THEY SNT ME AN INVOICE
THEY TND TO B A LITTLE PUSHY BUT THEY R DEBT COLLECTORS AFTER ALL

4x yesterday now @8AM! This is crazy! They want all your personal information but do not send a letter (if it was legit business).  There really isn't any formal listing for this company, and have had them checked with BBB in New York. Even this is limited. If you call, hardly anyone speaks English! Also,I cannot do anything with the phone company other than put *Call Intercept* on my line. More costs for privacy...This is utter harassment!

They just called again! The message is cut-off (the guy didn't wait for the *beep*) accept their telephone number.  I believe these are scam artists! Nothing has ever been sent in the mail issuing any request for any debt owed.  There is nothing owed by us! I have alerted the National Do Not Call List!

Whomever this is calls my house 4x to 8x a day. I have caller ID but no voice mail so I never hear a message. I do not answer calls without knowing with whom I am speaking.

I owe nothing and have no old debts--that I am aware of! Can't imagine as a senior citizen that these callers really are looking for me!

They(PCS?)called 2x this week and are foreigners who barely speak english, who say a old debt is owed. We closed a long standing account years ago, the store in question totally acted foolishly over a lost payment in the mail, so we paid it off at that time. Now whoever these crazy people are now say we owe money!  Totally wrong! Haven't rec'd a letter stating anything to us otherwise than what was paid off at the time and this matter was handled over 5 years ago! I think they believe if they intimidate you via the phone that money will flow there way...LOL!

Hey i recieved calls frm this collection agency.They are helpful if you dnt have money to pay the debt.If you have no money to pay the debt, make an arrangement to pay in installments.If you could pay by a card or post dated check then you could get good discount also because the payment is processed on the date of settlement agreed on.Dont worry pay your bills today if you are getting good discount and that too after such a long time after using the services.Its true that they bother you everytime unless you make the promise to pay.they are CRITICAL debt collection agency..

After being harrased over the phone and have the supervisor tell me "You do not have enough guts to go against me" this is the letter I wrote to Columbia House about Takhar (what's with the understandable name).

Columbia House Customer Service Center Indianapolis, IN
Columbia House DVD Club
PO Box 91602
Indianapolis, IN 46291-0602

Date: November 13, 2008
Re: Account No. UNKNOWN


Dear Sir/Madam,
   It has come to my attention from a creditor collection agency that I had a pending balance with your company for an account opened under a name similar than mine and not by myself.
This is a letter to dispute the UNKNOWN account referred above.
I have a case in point that this account information is inaccurate with Takhar Group of Companies (877) 466-5701 and my debt has not yet been verified. But it is not my account for the following reasons:
?    Only after I tried to verify the information they obtained all the information they now have.
?    They have me as Francisco Sanaberi
?    The address they have (765 Washington, 5W) was my address 14 years ago (1994) and never again since.
?    My cell phone number (to which they are harassing me over and over again) was taken from a public directory and not from the original account that they have.
?    They refuse to send me written information about the debt for me to be able to verify.

They have continued to list the disputed item on my credit report. This has caused immense inconvenience to my financial transactions. I will be forced to sue you for defamation damages and declaratory relief under the FCRA.

While litigation is not my favored process of dealing in such cases, I will use it just the same to claim my rights.

I look forward to a peaceful resolution of this matter

I am from Puerto Rico and they got me, fortunatetly I made the arrangements so that they could not take my payment. They send me an email with the same information Troy Ellis Takhar Group 1623 Military Road, Suite 537Niagara Falls, New York 14304 Phone:1-866-329-3750  of course no one answers that phone.  This really is a scam.

I have been receiving recorded messages that say "It is imperative that you call this number, 877-227-3390 between the hours of 8 a.m. & 5 p.m.  Again, the number is 877-227-3390."  Then the recording ended.  I called it once and they said they were looking for a lady I had never heard of.  I was told they would remove my number from their data base.  A few weeks later, another call with the same recording.  I called and got hold of somebody named Amy.  I got the same crap from her that I got before.  I really got annoyed and told her to remove the @#$%ing number.  I doubt that will happen.  If I receive any other calls, I am going to take the matter to my State Attorney General and let them deal with it.

This group keeps calling my parents looking for me. I have no idea how they got my parents number but they are 88 years old and do not need this

well u can dispute the bill if u want to...
n even if u give out d bank info n if dey do sumthing wrong u can personlay sue dem coz u get yo bank statement in which it shows dat dey have withdrawn xtra money or whateva....

I received a call today from a man with a foreign accent so strong I could not understand him. He knew my name and address. I told him I couldn't understand. After a few clicks another man with an accent not quite as strong, but still hard to understand came on the line. He was very rude and blunt. Telling me unless I gave him my bank account or credir card information immediately, he would report me to the credit reporting agencies. I tried to explain that I wouldn't give him my information over the phone. I wanted written proof of my bill. After much discussion he said he would send it to me , but I need to give him my bank information today or he would still report me to the credit agency and I would have bad credit. I was back to the argument of before. I can't beleive that by the time I hung up I was in tears. I was in the process of paying the bill (which I don't understand)just to save my credit when I decided to look them up on the internet. I clicked onto this web site. The phone number is not the same. The number that came up is 877-207-0305 but the man who called himself Lee, gave me a different phone number it is 866-202-1013. I refused to give him my back account and with more argumnet he gave me the following address. Takhar Collection Services, 1623 Miltary Rd, Unit #3537, Niagara Falls, NY 14304
I find the address and name of the company simular to that of the above comments.

Good work getting their address.
I've already reported them to my local FBI office for interstate wire fraud

Not that I'm siding with Mack but you should check your grammar too:
It's spelled "thieves"...

Hey Mack...you work for them, don't you?

I got a call from an Anita Gelles was the id of the individual. Didn't state the nature of the call other than, "A matter of yours 'name' has been brought to my attention today, I need you to return my call,(slight pause)...immediately, my office number is '877-227-3390' ext, 276, thank you."

I have not received another previous mail regarding a dept, no letter or other calls. The message on the machine does not state my name and the number is a joint account.

This person does not state where they are calling from, or what it is in regards to other than the 'matter' specified above.

I think I know what this is in regards to. I have a couple accounts which has been placed into dept consolidation program. These accounts get regular monthly payments as agreed by contract with the lenders, (retail revolving accounts) and they are handled in accordance to an agreement made with the companies I am paying off. I have not missed payments, but I am very close to paying the depts off in full, within the year. It stands to reason that these collectors want to force a settlement with what I figure is about a 100.00 surcharge above and beyond the actual remainder of balance owed.

This happens to me every year about this time it seems so, something must get pushed out as far as information.

The company that comes up in a Google search for 877-227-3390 is Takhar.  The thing that bothers me is that Takhar is said to be out of Ontario, Canada. The area was GALT ON on the caller ID. The collector speaks fluent english, perfectly understandable, 'american' accent or no discernable foreign accent.
   
Last year I had a collector out of Texas and Alabama hounding me for months while I was laid off. These depts still got paid and I got into quite a few heated arguments about the validity of owing any immediate payoff to anyone. Some of them called sucessively and other times random, but multiple times throughout the day and up until 9:30pm at night. Legally, they stated they can call as many times as they want, but there is something about leaving many messages in the law if I recall.

I new right away I needed to send a letter of cease and desist and I threatened to do so, as well as legal action, recording and documenting the calls when they became obviously harrassing.
I did not get around to it until months later. After which, the calls ocmpletely stopped but not until some pretty desctructive arguments took place.

In this instance with Takhar, info on teh net shows Takhar is a province in Afghanistan.

Bottom line; Ontario, Afghanistan, I ain't calling it back. Even with a 800 number, I won't call it back. They do not know I am here and if I do call back, it will only answer to validate where one can reach me & harass me for matter I am paying on every month. If I receive a written collection letter,stating the the accounts and the specific amounts owed, then I will address that, otherwise, please go crawl back under your rock Anita.

Look homo, our legitimate bills get paid. It's the scammer's make-believe bills that will not. What country are you in that you can't even spell the simplest of words loser.

SD FJFD JSDFER SRERIOS SDVFJKGIJRT SDKDFK OK SDJLVFG HELLO LEARN TO WRITE!!!!!!

These people are so f*@#ing stupid they call my place of emloyment for other people.  I just mess with them.  You can not reason with them, they dont understand.  They claim a friend owes money to a company that is not even in the town they claim.  They are stalkers!!  I just worry about the innocent people trying to make things right and actually paying.  They use many different numbers and names. DON"T TELL THEM ANYTHING--DON"T TRY TO REASON IT IS A WASTE OF YOUR BREATH TRUST ME.

They keep calling even after I told him that I don't know what he's talking about.  I hang up, they call right back.  The first call he said he was with PCS, then it was TGC, so the hell with him.  Even if I was to owe them something they can hold their breath until I send it.  They are foreign and I can't understand what he is saying.  So quit calling me please.

U simply hav to pay ur bills cos ordering things 1st nd not payin for them!! tch tch not gud... U guys hav the lamest excuses, I've ever heard! If told abt the bill, you guys hang-up and then u guys say we never got it even if we have the proof for it.. BTW it's a mere $30-$100 bills!! LMAO!!! Get a life you guys...

I get calls from 1-877-200-4113 at least 4 to 5 times a day and this has been going on for over a year. I have asked to have my number removed as they keep asking for some person I do not know. This phone number is mine and has been for 3 years yet so it is not like it is a new number or anything. I have an unlisted number that I pay for and yet I am still harassed by this company. I have never been able to get the name of the company because they hang up first as soon as I tell them to remove my number or ask for someone in charge. They also lie and tell me they have only called once or twice and yet I have caller ID and can prove that they call daily and this has been going on for over a year. I have reported them to the do not call list and police yet it dose not stop. I think next I will be contacting the court system.