i call them and said my names lucifer smith andhe said oh call me back when you ready to stop playing on the phone

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If you think your life is in danger, contact your local or state police immediately!

If you don't come forward and complaint, government won't be able to find these criminals and they would continue scamming and fooling innocents. Help the society.

got a call from anita Johnson saying I had bad checks out and had to pay over 400.00 dollars or get arrested .1 was out of town and she left me a message on my answer  mechine I  found out it was a fraud.while looking for their address on the internet I told her she was a fraud and she started cussing me out

Is there a way I can post the recording of my conversation and the voice mail I received back...I only hope I get served and have my day in court now

Just received another call from Edward Dodd at Graham Madison 888-315-7793 ex 718 regarding a check.

When I asked him to send me a copy in the mail he refused, called me a Bi*** and a F**got and hung up the phone.

I will follow up with Authorities as well as the company they said they were calling for.

Received a call from this number asking for a person with my surname.  I replied there was no one at this number with that name.  They rudely said they would just arrest him and hung up.  I assume this was debt collection but the caller gave no details.

Got a call from my son who said Edward Dodd of Gram Madison call him about a bad check of mine, They are acomplete Fraud, ask them for their ID and DO NOT give them any information or MONEY   Tell them you are recording the call for the FBI!

I called Lisa Johnson and stated that I was investigating a complaint against her company.  She forwarded me to her supposed supervisor or as she said the Compliance Officer.  Oh my goodness, that person didn't answer the phone and I got their voicemail.  They've been warned.

David, you should not have called me today. I have filed complaints with the following agencies:
State Attorney General
CFPB
FBI
IC3
FBI
Based on all your positive comments on the internet, I'm sure you are well aware of who these agencies are.
They all have your name, company name, 800 number, and direct extension. I am hoping one of them returns my call so I can replay the message you left on my cell phone - David you should have known better than that. Ater all, you are a professiona - correct??
I would really think about who is calling you the next time the phone rings.

Maybe you should consider a more honorable way to make a living......good luck

call your local FBI office they will give you a web site to file, today being OCT. 24,2013  got 2 calls again to day

Pookie-buns, were you napping during your six minutes of legal compliance training? With violations like that, LB's attorney won't need three hundred *pennies*, just the address of your fraud cave. Losing FDCPA defendants (that would be you lot) are made to pay the costs of their own thrashing.

FDCPA § 1692k. Civil liability
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1692k

Andrea said "someone by my brother's name" was wanted. That could easily mean a stranger with a similar name. In any case, you cannot assume that two sibs share a dwelling or a phone number. That's what makes it a wrong number, genius.

The thug rep also claimed that the man was "listed as a relative", presumably on some unspecified loan agreement. This is a common ruse among fake "hot check" and PDL collectors, to first target relatives and "nearbys" with frightening threats under some flimsy pretense that the alleged debtor is out of touch.

Looks like another bunch of collection deadbeats running from their responsibility.

Triple-B file was opened 05 September. As of today it lists *three* shiny complaints, all within October. Not so great, that strike average. All of them discuss false criminal charge threats and obscene and hostile collectors. What a non-shocker, the source of those phone calls doesn't want to be found to open the Bureau's mail or anyone else's.

The topic of "bad check" collection calls have come up in some other threads (and the threads are usually full of shills).  The following has been posted in those threads,  but I will also share it here

Many of these "bad check" investigators are clearly engaged in a scam.   As several posters who have contacted law enforcement indicated have been told that the types of calls being discussed in this thread are a a scam.

There are also issues in each state regarding the statutes of limitations.  

Here is an opinion regarding this from a lawyer with 10+ years of experience
http://www.justanswer.com/law/76h8x-harrassed

Also, despite what shills have said on various threads, there have been court rullings indicate that these "check investigators" are covered by the FDCPA

Federal Trade Commission v. Check Investors, Inc.

Summarized here http://www.foxrothschild.com/newspubs/newspubsArticle.aspx?id=5402

Of specific interest to this thread is the following

"The FTC brought an action against Check Investors seeking to enjoin its abusive and unfair collection activities under the FDCPA and for restitution. Check Investors claimed it was not subject to the FDCPA because: 1) NSF checks were not ?debts;? 2) individuals that bounce checks are not ?consumers? but rather criminals and tortfeasors; and 3) Check Investors was not a ?debt collector,? but rather a ?creditor? because it owned the NSF checks and was seeking to collect on its own behalf, not on behalf of another. The lower court granted summary judgment on behalf of the FTC, and Check Investors appealed.

The Court of Appeals rejected all three of Check Investors' arguments. The Court reasoned that because a check evidences an obligation to pay for goods or services, it falls within the definition of a ?debt? under the FDCPA, even if the individual never intended to pay for the goods and services and knew the check was bad at the time it was written. The Court also held that an individual that writes a bad check is still a ?consumer? under the FDCPA even though the intentional issuance of a bad check is a crime in many states and is fraudulent. The FDCPA defines a ?consumer? as ?any natural person obligated ?to pay any debt.? The protections of the FDCPA do not distinguish between deserving and undeserving consumers."

Good for you.  The problem here is that most of the people making complaints did not write the check.  I would assume if you could read on a level higher than the sixth grade you would understand that.

Judging for you sentence composition you are more likely than not a functional illiterate.  My apologies for that errant assumptions

I find it ironic that any individual who is calling someone a name on the internet (like you), could ever refer to anyone a coward.  If collections doesn't work out for you, you might have a career in comedy, because that is the funniest thing I've read in a while.

But then again, anyone can act all tough and threatening on the phone, even implying they have legal powers. You should probably get of the Internet and crawl back under your rock in the boiler room before your overseer catches you and takes away your crayons.

I got a call from them and yeah I wrote the check ,but unlike you cowards who write these posts saying you didn't ,I don't need to do that.Proud to not pay what I owe LOL.

It's easy to put down others, isn't it??  You must be an expert in bad check usage since you commenting on that subject.

Actually, the bank/credit union is usually the first to mail a notice to the customer that their check was returned due to non-sufficient funds.  The vendor will also  mail a notice to the customer that their check bounced, and will ask for the amount of the check plus any returned check fee.  Criminal prosecution comes only after people are given the chance to correct this.

Its called spoofing, something along the lines of what you scammers do..  You scammers seem to think the world owes you, well, we don't! The only thing we owe you is a nice prison cell for fraud.  Pot meet kettle!

This firm is "real", a real bunch of low-life bottom feeders engaging in an operation that is possibly illegal.

How do you know this poster wrote a so-called "worthless check"?  

How you know he is a thief?

If they're not real how did they call you? Why don't you call up and get a copy of the worthless check you wrote. Thief.

Hi got a call from graham madison debt collector. Please help I know the company is not real.

This #888-315-7793 keep calling my phone and my 3 daughter's phone saying I owe them for a check in 2005 from a sneaker store for 297.00 and I need to pay it now or a warrant will be issue immediately and I will be arrested, scammmmmmmmmmmm! What do you guys think about this?

I just got a call from the same person at, both, my Office and Cell phone #, but they were asking for a "Laura".

I made a complaint against them cause I was called about a check I wrote and when I told them I would not pay it ,they got nasty. I wrote the check but so what ? That doesn't give them a right to call me "worthless check writer" and say I "stole" merchandise from Sears.Totally uncalled for. Totally shat on my rights and I will not stand for it.

I don't know anything about this outfit,but returned checks are not handled between the bank and the customer because the returned check was NOT paid by the bank.The receiver of the check has a right to criminally prosecute if the check was in return for goods or services rendered.Spreading misinformation is not helpful to those who may actually need correct info.

Got a call from an Anita Johnson looking for someone we don't know with the exact same threat.

I received a call from this # saying my daughter has a no good check written on an account with her social security number.  The caller said if she does not call they would forward the investigation to the D.A. and have her prosecuted for fraud. I told the guy returned checks are handled between the account holder and the bank. My daughter called them and asked for the date of the check, the # of the check, what account it was written on and for how much? They could not answer any of her questions. In fact they said they do not even have the check. BEWARE!!!!! This is another SCAM!!!!

Received call from David 'Conway' of 'Graham Madison' at 888 315-7793 claiming to be fraud investigator.  Claimed he was sending to have people arrest me.  Friendly in beginning, threatening and aggressive at end.  Scammers.  

Yes definetly I reported them