A convicted child molester AND he/she was convicted of cc fraud? This is exactly what kind of people work for this company.What a shock! NOT!!! This company practices A LOT of bad business, so it's no surprise. OBVIOUSLY you also work there to know these things. What does that say about you??

Shill alert !!

The problem that no one seems to understand that they are a licensed and bonded collection agency and have every rite to collect the debt that is owed to them by almost everyone that has wrote a negative comment on here except the one I am replying to now this comment. This comment was actualy posted by a former employee that was found to be convicted of cc fraud and also a convicted child mOlester  that has stolen certain information from this collection agency and is facing jail time.

So sick of these people scamming everyone they possibly can. They have harassed us waaay to long. We received the same calls from a FAKE "process servers office." We did our research and found the following info. They also have 3 or 4 other fake collection agencies in the same area but we have not found the info for them. rest assured when we do, you will have it. Hope it helps.

Thurston & Associates: 5720 Old Cheney Hwy. Orlando Florida 32807.
Owner: Tom Wilson.
18135 CORALWOOD LN    
GROVELAND FL 34736
407-558-9855

Co-Owner: Merrill T Miller.
107 WALTON HEATH DR
ORLANDO FL 32828
407-488-5217


Business plan:
Use a fake "Process server" to call and scare consumers into thinking they are going to be served the next day. When you call the number they give you, you are actually calling the same office that called you. If you listen close enough you can hear them in the back ground as we did.
A collector will then try and collect on the debt, even if it is out of statue of limitations. It is against the law for them to threaten/act as if/say, they are going to/can/will take you to court if the debt is beyond statute of limitations. The statute of limitations begins on the last activity on your account.

P-L-E-A-S-E
Copy this link and paste it into your browser and be aware of your state laws.
http://www.creditinfocenter.com/rebuild/statuteLimitations.shtml

If you have already made arrangements with this SCAM company, it's not to late. Whether you made the arrangement with your checking account or credit card, you can dispute the monies with your bank/c.c. company for up to 90 days..... DO NOT BECOME A VICTIM LIKE WE DID!

They scammed us out of almost $1,200 a few months back and we were still able to get the money back.

VERY soon they will be put down. They just don't know it.
We recorded the call for our own good but was advised it cannot be used in court if we sue them. Your call will probably sound the same.

SCAMMER: You have been named a defendant in a civil lawsuit regarding your ***** account. The amount your being taken to court for is $*,***. We are not a collection agency. We buy peoples debts to take them to court. Did you receive the letter we sent you 43 days ago?
If you would have received the letter would you have tried to handle this without going to court? Let me speak to my director to see if I can get some interest taken off.
Then your put on hold.
SCAMMER: Did you receive a summons or just the phone call?
You can either settle for $*,*** , or make monthly payments towards $ *,***

DON'T FALL FOR IT.
The only way to stop these scammers is if enough of us complain.
Here is the info to do just that.
To mail complaint, type this into your browser;
http://www.flofr.com/Consumer/Forms/OFR-CCA-103.pdf

To call in the complaint.
Director of operations Daniel Waters direct line.
Office of Finance & Regulation.
407-245-0606.

They called me this morning, I called back but couldn't get thru.  Did a Google Search on the phone number and company name, which got me to you guys. THANK YOU! All they left on my phone was their name and the 888 number to call back with a case number. They did not specify what the case was pertaining to.

I RECEIVED A CALL FROM THURSTON & ASSOCIATES THIS MORNING ASKING FOR MY FIANCE'. I SAID JUST A MINUTE AND THE GIRL STARTED WHISPERING (AT LEAST SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS) SAYING................"HE'S THERE, HE'S THERE, WHAT DO I SAY NOW!!"         THEN SHE HUNG UP! SHE CALLED RIGHT BACK AND SAID............"I THINK WE GOT DISCONNECTED!"             I REFUSED TO PUT HIM ON THE PHONE THIS TIME AND SHE GAVE ME A PHONE NUMBER AND A CASE FILE # FOR HIM TO CALL BACK!!!!                                 WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!                  YOU PROBABLY SHOULD LEARN HOW TO HANDLE THE CALLS IF YOUR GONNA TRY TO SCAM SOMEONE!!!

I also got a call from this company. They had alot of info on me including my SSN. How could they get that. Do they work for some collection company or what

Well, you better lock your son up in the closet where they can't get to him LOL

Better yet, put him up for adoption and get him some new parents with half a brain.

Do you really think people are "taken away" if you don't call some phone number? GEEZ!

I was contacted this mornig regarding one of my kids. They told us that my son  was goin to be taken away if we didn't call back at 1888 242-1312. What can I do?

I was contacted today by someone acting like a lawyer from Thurston and Associates telling me I owe $5,000 plus, and will be sued if I don't agree to start making payments now! What can I do??? 615-423-3429 Please contact me with a answer...PLEASE

File complaints with FTC, your state Attorney General, and the Florida Attorney General.

They are using "the police" to threaten you, to get you to pay a faked "debt" that you do not owe to them.

It's a con.

Not likely.

Other related scam complaints under other numbers.

Note that the area codes vary, even though supposedly they have a Florida debt collection license.
This may be an attempt either to hide their location, to get past phone number blocking, or to create the appearance they are calling from a local number, as part of the act of pretending to be a "process server".  Various telecom companies offer the service of providing local area code call access, often through VoIP.  Also note that call center PBX systems allow caller id to be spoofed at will.
:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-203-220-6469
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-704-215-4691
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-603-290-5569
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-407-329-3353

The complaint profile matches a common pattern for fraudulent fake "debt collection" scams, consisting of calls by fake "process servers", often to distant relatives or employers, pretending to be trying to locate you to "serve a summons".  Although this implies there is some "lawsuit", instead of actaully "serving papers", the "process server" instead leaves the number for the "debt collector" so the victim calls back in a panic, and can be conned into paying some alleged "debt" to avoid this "lawsuit".  The "process server" may claim to be a local sheriff's deputy, and may make various threats, such as that you will be "arrested" if you don't "call back in 3 hours", etc.

This type of scam often obtains information on old accounts by illegally pulling the consumer's own credit report, and using information found there to concoct this faked "debt".  There may even be an actual old debt there, owed to some real creditor, but there is enough information on credit reports to make it sound like they have the right to collect it.  The "lawsuits" are equally fake, as there would be no reason for the fake "process server" act, including the illegal threats, if they had actually sued.  Real process servers just serve you, and if they made illegal threats, they would in turn be sued and have their licenses revoked.

You will also find shill posts on the complaint threads against their numbers, as they try to counter the consumer reports of fraud attempts.  The shills may pretend they are happy they "settled", they may whine about being "sued and garnished", or they may have some "detailed" account of how they checked everything out and found this "debt collector" and the "debt" was "legitimate".  It's all an act, and this "Thurston" isn't even the first to come up with all the above deceptive elements.

Even obtaining the required licenses and becoming clients of the credit reporting agencies, allowing them to pull consumer credit reports, has become a common tactic with this type of scam.  The state and CRA vetting processes are very poor, and allow even criminal operations to appear real.  Although this creates the perception they are "legitimate", once you try to track them down, you only find mail drops at strip malls.

This has all the attributes of a con.

received call from 512 430 1135 saying to call 888-242-1315...same story...threatened to have  papers served on me for collection of a credit card debt.1st number was from Tx and 2nd from Orlando Florida.  DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFO>>>>THEY ARE A SCAM>>>I found out the hard way.......don't know what to do

Today they said that the police is coming tomorrow if I don't pay a bill is that real?

keep calling saying i will receive a summons tomorrow. is this real?