I am called by this number at least 10 times a day AT WORK. The person's name is TERRY MORRIS, he claims to be a process server with the county, but when I checked with the county, he isn't even registered.
He keeps leaving me threatening messages, saying he's coming to my home or office and I HAVE to sign for these papers or I will be arrested.
He has never said what company he is calling on behalf of, doesn't give a case number, doesn't provide any information.

I also contacted the county where I live to see if there is any court action pending against me, and there is nothing, according to the Court Clerk.

This has been going for about 2 months, and I'm starting to feel threatened by him, when I phone the 800 number they immediately want my social security number and credit card number, then my phone number and physical street address.
ARE THEY CRAZY???

How can I stop this harassment?

not to mention that I doubt they're reporting payments they're receiving ... TAX EVASION, which the IRS enjoys investigating!

I doubt ANY of us are fans of collection agencies, but these folks and others like them sure give the legit collection agencies a bad name.

LEGITIMATE collection agencies that follow the FDCPA do NOT ask for prepaid credit cards.  They WILL completely identify their company name, address, phone number, the original creditor, and WILL send, by US MAIL, a letter (in plain envelope) that they are trying to collect a debt ... generally BEFORE they ever call you.
(NO, I have never worked for a collection agency, but I've known people that have received calls from them, and taken messages ... and let me tell ya, if you let them know you aren't the person they're trying to call, all they tell you is "this is concerning a personal matter, will you have ---- call this number and give this reference number.")

I also just received a google voice mail from. A similar number! When I asked what does ACS stand for he said nothing. Then I asked where they are located and Keith Murray ext.326 said "I can not tell you that because we had problems in the past."  

This was after he couldn't find my name in regards to any case. He also asked me for my SS number I declined. The person also stated that this call could be because someone else I am related to may have a case against them. Then he just hung up on me after I started questioning him more on wether this is a scam!!!

There is DEA agency , even anti terrorist agencies. There needs to be a agency for this type of fraudulent gathering of information of tax payers. Scam scam scam....DNT GIVE ANY INFO..DNT EVEN CALL BACK!

I have bee contacted also by this company and they have ran the same script that everyone else on this web site I think we should all come together and do a class action lawsuit on them here is my email if u are seriously interested in doing so

They may be calling on a legitimate debt, but they are not legit and paying them or giving them any personal info would be a bad idea.

These guys are scammers and criminals. They buy debt in South Carolina (because they do not need a license) for pennies on the dollar. They call out of multiple states, including New York, which is the only address that I have found for them so far. They will harass and threaten and when that fails they will start calling relatives, jobs and anyone else they can skip-trace you to, telling the people who answer that you will be arrested and or sued if you do not contact them within a given time frame. The numbers they call from are generally spoofed so if you call them back they are disconnected. The call back numbers they give invariably lead to ACS litigation or whichever name they are using on that given day. I have searched their names in many states and they are not licensed. Paying them anything or divulging any personal information to them would probably be a really bad idea.

This crap with the company has been going on forever.....I have reported them to the FBI, FTC...the Attorney General of my state.....my local police.....you'd think with all the complaints that have been filed with this company...SOMETHING would have been done with them by now!!!........

these people keeps calling my job son cell phone. This a scam the man ask where I would like to be serve never heard of this before cause. If u serve sum one u dnt call n ask them where acs is not real its a scam n I ask them to email me my paper work n they didn't they even say they wld garnish my check for a loan. Online n the other thang the bbb never heard of them r dnt hv anyything on them

This Group is a major bunch of scammers.  They somehow got hold of the phone number of my elderly parents and placed a threatening call to them.

I just called this company ACS and at first they told me they were in buffalo new York then I called again and said they were in west Virginia. I kept asking they lady her name and the physical location where they were located and all they said was this is ACS and hung up on me. SCAM SCAM.

They called my mom, dont know how they have her number, they have my new address that i just moved to, and stated i had a loan with a company that i defaulted on, i called the loan company they stated i had a loan from, and they have no info on me about ever receiving a loan. ACS Litigation is fraud, they said they will summons me if i didnt pay them some money today!

we need to find out which loan place sold or lost our info to these people to file a class action suit

A MAN CALLED SAYING HE WAS SUPPOSE TO SERVE ME PAPERS THE SAME DAY HE CALLED AND IF I WANTED TO MAKE ANY PAYMENT'S TODAY? SO I DON'T GET SUMMONED!
Caller: 888-317-0762 THAT IS THE NUMBER TO CALL BACK!

A MAN CALLED SAYING HE WAS SUPPOSE TO SERVE ME PAPERS THE SAME DAY HE CALLED AND IF I WANTED TO MAKE ANY PAYMENT'S TODAY? SO I DON'T GET SUMMONED!

I would like to report a call/v. mail from a company claiming to be ACS that was left on my Parents v. mail of which my Mother received and nearly had a nervous breakdown from the message that was left. These type of calls need to stop! How they even obtained my Parents number is another issue.

Sincerely,

PC

This company just called my mother and she is frantic thinking that her grandson's arrest for a felony is imminent.  I am totally pissed as to why they called her and not my son or me, for that matter.  I never spoke to the "process server" and gave them a tongue lashing for upsetting her.  This company should be wiped off the map!!!!  Gave several excuses as to why we couldn't talk to a process server and did not provide information on the alleged debt.

I recieved a message from my room mate from ACS Litigation but they gave me a different number 877- 913-3631.  Said they were serving me in 2 hours.  I am at work but they never asked my roomate for any info on my work but told her it was a fraudulent check charges.

I just received a call from this number.  It was Blue Cross Blue Shield.  So not a debt collector at all.

Same story as most of the others on this site. This company "ACS" called my mother stating she was listed as a reference for me, his name was Brian Anderson. He stated that they are contacting me in regards to breach of contact/fraud charges and if I did not call back in 2 hours they would be contacting the local police with the court documents and come to my house and arrest me today and something in regards to a failure to appear. First of all, I have never received any paper work or summons for anything. I am not stupid enough to believe that a company brings some documents to the police and they come and arrest me with out going through a court/judge. Anyway, the number they provided to call back was 877-882-5465. However, the number that the call came from on my mother's caller ID was a local number where I live 360-695-9481. I called that one back first, it was disconnected which is odd, how can they call from that number but I call back within an hour and it's disconnected? I called the 877 number, a company called "ACS", spoke with a woman (I can't remember her name, but if you notice that most of the names this company gives are very common names such as Anderson, Jones, etc.). I gave the 6 digit case number provided and they could not access the information. I was very mad at this point, I know that they can't leave this info on someone else's vm as it violates privacy.  I called back later in the evening and spoke to another woman. She was able to access the case number this time and had my first and last name. She asked me for my SSN which I refused to give, she said she can't discuss unless I can give that info. I gave her the last 4 digits only. She said it is in regards to a fraudulent check. I asked her for what and when? She said it was for $600 from 2009 and if I didn't pay it today I would be taken into custody by the police. I told her that I haven't even received anything and if this was true someone would need to come to my house and I would need to physically sign a summons. We got into a shouting match, she told me to cut the attitude. She wanted my credit card information to make a payment, I refused.  She said that if I don't I will receive the summons and if I don't go it will be a failure to appear. I told her that I will wait for the document, she said "You do that, good luck". This is obviously a scam and fraud, do not give these people any information and report the phone numbers to the Federal Trade Commission to prevent these scumbags from doing this. I truly believe that someone either stole or received information from a company regarding debts that are owed by various people and are using this information and calling the references making threats to obtain personal information, etc. to ultimately steal money or your identity.

I had a call kisted on my caller ID as unknown caller. When I answered it was a woman looking for my son. She said she had a summons to serve for a court appearance on fraud.  I asked who she was and she said Lauren Green.  I asked who sent the summons and she said ACS Group Litiation represents the plaintive and they are at 877- 882-7693. I told her to send it to me and I would see that my son gets it. She said I have to deliver it in poerson and if she was unabvle to do that my son would be charged with failure to appear and would be detained.

Just received a call from a woman stating that she was a process server and that I was going to be served.  She told me it was an attempt to collect a debt and that I had to call 877-882-5684.  I asked her the name of the debtor and she said she didn't have the name of the debtor but that the complaint was filed by ACS Litigation in the state where I reside, but couldn't tell me what county of jurisdiction it was in.  I work in a law office and have worked in law offices for more than 20 years, having filed numerous complaints with the courts on behalf of the attorneys I work for.  I know for a fact that NEVER at any time will a process server call to tell you in advance that you are being served or that a complaint has been filed against you.  I advised the caller of this and told her that I would look into it but advised her upfront that I was pretty sure it was a scam.  After I hung up I accessed the local court database, did a statewide search and found that no complaint had been filed.  As a head's up to anyone who is reading this, check the tolling period for debt collection in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.  I think it's 3 years.  If this company has bought a debt of yours that is older than that time and you confirm that the debt is yours, the tolling period starts all over.  DO NOT CONFIRM THE DEBT.  By the same token, do not call the toll free number offered.  If you call them back and confirm your information regarding the debt, it also starts the tolling period.  After a certain amount of time, a debt becomes uncollectible but becomes collectible after you respond to the call.  These are third-party collectors and they will ALWAYS use illegal means to collect the debt.  Check the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the internet.  There's a lot of useful information about how to handle debt collectors.

Thes people are rude and not professional! I have tried to make arrangements on an old debt that I know to be and outstanding debt, but every time I spoke it was not good enough and these people wanted my account information. Which I do not share over the telephone and very seldom on-line.
Be very cautious when dealing with people who will not verify their own company information with you.

I received 2 calls from these jokers. They were rude, threatening, harsh, yet; they  had information that was private. Are people using them for the scare tactics alone? Mine is over a rental issue where the old  landlord has never made one attempt to directly contact me. This "company" says I have a restraining order against me and I have never been contacted by anyone or served; although the 48 hour window they gave me expired 3 months ago. What does one do about them- it is harassment. And I feel that the legal bubble so to speak isn't quite in the middle. Also the person charging me with this is a paralegal-just an aside that may or may not mean anything.

Hello there! how do i file a complain againts this company? how do i report them to the FTC?  thanks.

I recieved a message from these guys yesterday too!!!  They first called family memebers and gave them a case # and a name of Joe Banks.  Called and spoke with Johnny Walker and he stated that I had an outstanding pay day loan from 2007 for the amount of 390 and to settle this they needed me to sent 790 within 48 hours or they would have someone come to my job and give me a summons for court.  He also said that if the paperwork for the summons is issued that I would no longer be able to settle it out of court any longer.  When I ask for my info he stated that I would need to give it to him for verification.

The number they used me was 877-230-6756
The sad thing is that this also happened to me in January and I fell for it sending them 1500.00 cause I was scared and didnt research it.  Now I had family tell me that is sounds like a scam and that I need to look into it.  Thank god for family.

"Wendell Rice" left a message on my home phone regarding one of my neighbors. He said he was a state processor for California and that she needed to contact ACS Offices legal department regarding two charges against her for attempting to defraud a financial institution and fraudulent check. Failure to contact them (at 877 663-7916 case # xyz), would result in  local ____ would coming to place of employment or residence, which would result in 3 charges.
It is egregious that they called my home phone and left personal financial information regarding someone I hardly know. I do not know where she works, do not know where she came from, just someone I say hello to occasionally, etc.
I called back the number (it has a recording of an attempt to collect a debt) to ask how my home phone showed up for someone in my neighborhood. "Randy Eckel" could not answer, "Wendell" did not work in his office.
Again, egregious to call my personal phone, leaving personal financial information regarding someone from my neighborhood.

i also received a voicemail (which i still have saved) from some chick saying that she is calling from my county processing for a summons to appear in court about a payday loan from 2007 that was never paid.  she left 877-230-6764 to call back and a "docket #"  to refer to.  i called this # and its the same message that comes up on the other #s people have listed here on this page. i talked to some guy named randall/randy echols xt.358 and then they start to tell me that i owe about 2800 dollars after interest charges and that they could do a settlement for 1000 paid immediately.  i said no, then they said the only other option was to pay 200 every month up to the new settlement amt of 1400.  STUPIDLY i was scared and gave them my cc pmt information.  then afterwards, my husband is like, did you verify this is even legit?  which i didn't which is where i started finding all these posts about this scam.  i then called the orig company where i did hold a debt and they said they have never heard of this ASC Offices and they have no rights over my acct whatsoever and that I should cancel my card.  I did just that.  I cancelled the cc so they won't be getting a penny from me.  Then i called the correct collection agency that holds my acct and they confirmed no one else has rights to my acct. i called these fools back at that 877 # and started asking for their information.  I told them they dont own this acct and that i want to know where they are located. the woman i was talking to kept saying over and over that she has to xfer me to someone higher than her.  higher than her just to get their street address????  then a guy named john rizzo answers who starts to flip it and wanted me to give HIM the name of the true collection agency holding my acct.  I said no, you tell me the name of the company you said sold you my acct and i'll verify if that matches what the real company is telling me.  then he started to stutter saying that he has to tt someone else higher than him to get that information and that he will call me back saying that they are a legit company.  he too couldnt give me their street address.  i am so glad that I did some checking on this.  fraud fraud fraud.  the real folks said that its easy for hackers to steal information and this is probably how they got my personal information like addr, last 4 ssn, ect.  i was freaking out but now i'm not bc this is fraudulent for sure.

A person calling himself a "process server" called for my husband also claiming that he has no information on his case but that we should contact them before we get sued for committing fraud..

I also received a call from these fools.  hey first called my family member's home and said that they were sending a summons to my home to have me locked up for not paying Approved Check Advance.  They had called several times but this partiicular timed they were asked to provide a phone number.  They gave her the number (877)912-1847.  When I called them at this number i first spoke with a Ms. Jones who was very ghetto and nasty.  She had no professional manners at all and when she asked me for my social security number I declined to give her this information.  She proceeded to ask me if I lived at a particular residence and I said yes just to see if she would give me any further information.  Well, the idiot told me that she knew it was me without verifying any other information and said that I had a warrant for fradulant checks in the amount of $1,083.00 for a payday loan taken out in 2008.  I said that was fine but would wait to be served and she then put me on hold and refered me to a Taylor Racks who refused to verify anything she said.  This is for sure a scam ad these people should be ashamed of themselves.

I received a phone call today claiming they were a process server and asked me to call this other phone number they said someone had filed a complaint against me.  I asked who they were and what it was regarding they would not tell me. They gave me a phone number and a claim number.  So, I called to find out what was going on. They claimed they were calling on behalf of Advance America. BUT, they could not tell me where this Advance America is located or what their collection service name ACS Litigation even stands for.  Which I found to be quite odd!  They told me that they can extend me time to pay until 3PM tomorrow and if I do not pay they have threatened to have me served with papers to go to court. They also called a family members place of business and left them a message saying they were calling to file a complaint that had to do with fraud.  First of all a collection agency is NOT allowed to do that due to the privacy act.  When I questioned them about the phone call made to a family member they said oh we dont know who made the call.  That person is not in our office he is a process server.  The phone number they left on the voice mail message to my family member was 877-817-5359 which does not work.  The phone number they had me to call back to was 877-816-5359.