file reports with the FBI, your state attorney general and Department Of Justice,CFB,FTC & FCC..

http://www.nw3c.org/
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form1088.action
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Also read up on the laws and your rights:

http://800notes.com/arts/Jb8EW-eDhQA/harassin ... ou-need-to-know
See Residents post here also:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-34af6a034ba34b6/unending-collection-calls
Templates of Letters:
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-319-242-7350

http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.shtm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/search ...
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection

And see:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-944ec1426a8bcbb/ ... service-attacks
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http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/ ... r-phones/ndF4c/
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http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1828
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http://800notes.com/forum/ta-86217073a9c8dad/ ... 077595690349410
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http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collectors
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http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/pressreleases/extortion_scam.htm
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http://www.fdcpa.me/fake-process-server-injunction/
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http://800notes.com/forum/ta-9413b3202bc8b6c/ ... net%27s-tactics
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Consider buying a call blocking device or phone..
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=call+blockers

Looks like these guys are at it again, they have a new number: 956-233-7064 James Cutter is the caller and the person calling from this number is James Cutter.  They skip search and call people they think may be related to you and tell them that you have a warrant out for your arrest for writing worthless checks.  Not true; the scam is: they work with/for a collection agency for payday loans. They are trying to scare you into an attempt to contact them and thus the collection company so they can recover money that is in collections.... Please report them... It is against the law for a creditor to call a third party and release information about a debt: amt owed, to whom, when etc..., so therefore they hide behind these pseudo scam-artist like james cutter because it's not illegal for a random third party claiming to be with the district attorney office to call and scare the debtor into calling the collection agency... Please report them... something has to be done. They need to be sued for this false and misleading behavior

Call your nearest FBI district office or federal prosecutor to report a possible criminal violation of this federal law:

18 USC § 875(d):

"Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

From: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/875

Tell them what phone number called you and give as many facts about the call as possible - particularly what the caller did to threaten you.  Your nearest FBI field office can be found here:

http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field/listing_by_state

--> "She told me that they were a law firm and they could say whatever they wanted and call whomever they please" <---

I would like to emphasize, For those not already in the know like you are, that this is a RED FLAG with flashing neon lights indicating a scam.

I have gotten numerous phone calls from this number from an Adam Perkins, threatening I had multiple charges pending against me and needed a statement from me or my attorney.  Have even started calling family members now, any suggestions would be helpful.

I received a call from this number too. As a matter of fact, they called my whole family and told them I was going to prison. Being who I am, crazy and all, I called them and cursed them out. I told them they had violated any privacy rights that government allows for. She told me that they were a law firm and they could say whatever they wanted and call whomever they please. A verbal attack ensued and she was promptly hung up on. She called me back and told me she would hand over my paperwork for prosecution immediately. I told her to make sure she does. it. In the real world, real debt collectors do not call your family members and speak to them about your debt. They are allowed to speak only to the individual unless the individual gives them consent. Furthermore, I dont write checks.

I got a call from 913-586-0342 looking for my ex husband that I have not been married to in 11 years they told me it was a legal mater that he could go to jail for. I took the info down and told her I would give the info to his family. Her name was Amy Jackson.

after all of the threatening phone calls advising me to contact the district attorney, advising me that I was going to jail, that i had been charged with bank fraud etc... by these people the contact number for the collection company that has the debt is: 855-202-1773.  Northern Resolutions who claims they are a debt buyer and sells debt advised me that this company by the name of vantage point now owned they debt... After the scare tactic scam phone call from david houston/ hugh's i called this company and only gave them the  cell phone number  david houston/hugh's called me and the woman was able to locate the account and some of my identifying information (how bout those odds). Well you guys know when you call the 913-586-0342 number after hours or listen to their voice mails they ask for a case number.  Well if you cal the collection company's number 855-202-1773 after hours: 1. the greeting does not identify the company name, it only advised you that no one is there ask you to leave your name and get this your "CASE NUMBER" and someone will return the call.  All of you who have gotten calls from these people acting like affiliated law enforcement entities/ officials know how they liked to throw around and talk about the "CASE NUMBER" i'm just saying something not lining up and FDCPA prohibits misrepresentation and threats... nevertheless you can't find this companies anywhere online to contact them.

David Houston call me on my cell phone today from 1-913-586-0341. He told me he was calling because I had been charged with some type of fraud and writing bad checks and I owed over 1,000.00  David's tone was alright until I started bombarding him with questions because I had no idea what he was talking about and he wasn't being precise and detailed with his information.  David made threats that was just calling me out of courteousy (like he was doing me a favor) and later threatened that he just needed to know where to send the police to come and pick me up.  I kept asking if all this was true where could i go and get this information locally. I asked do i go to my local police department (because David was trying to make it seem as if there was a warrant for my arrest)  I asked David questions about his name, where he was calling from, then he made some comment about knowing where he was calling from really being irrelevant because he was located in Kansas.  So i asked again so where do i go to get this information locally? He kept trying to get my address.  I asked the name of the company he was working for he said it was Tori and Matthews. David told me that he was a private investigator. The more I asked questions to get a better understand because things weren't making sense the more frustrated he got... He ended the conversation saying threatening I needed to get the district attorney to represent me because I was being charged with a felony and he hug up the phone in my face.  

When I got off the phone with David I began my own research. He told me the name of the bank that I fraudulently used and I kept saying I've never had an account with that bank etc... So I looked up the bank and the bank's name had actually changed. So I told the bank what I had just experience and they could not locate information on me in the system.  I looked at my credit report and saw that the debt David Houston was actually trying to throw me in jail for is on my credit report.  It was a payday loan through Advance America.  It is schedule to fall off in 2015.  The next thing I did was called the collection company number listed on the report which was Northern Resolution Group (888) 447-2490.  I spoke with a lady named Jerry Angelo who was sort of hesitant in giving me her name.  She advised me that her company is debt buyer. and they had sold the Advance America debt to Vantage Point.  She gave me the contact information for Vantage point and I spoke with a Woman by the name of Sandy.

I work in debt collections and federal law mandates for us to say the mini -miranda/ monitored disclosure statement: "our calls may be monitored or recorded this is an attempt to collect a debt by a debt collector any information obtained will be used for that purpose" if this statement is recited at the start of each phone call before giving our any information the account the company as well as the representative over the phone can be sued.  I asked both debt collection companies if our calls were monitored or recorded and they both said no.  Which didn't make me feel any better because now I could prove the conversations I was having unless i was recording it myself.  

Sandy told me vantage point had recently purchased by debt in 03/2013. I could easily resolve it by paying it in installments or just a one time payment/ settlement offer.  So I said to Sandy, Well I don't understand, David Houston Called me this morning wanting to lock me up in jail and wants me to get the district attorney to represent me but you on the other hand say I can make payments to resolve this debt.  Sandy told me that as far as she knew that I wasn't going to jail... I reminded sandy that I worked in debt collections and know how you have to say what you need to say to convince the debtor to pay... I asked sandy if they were working with the law firm by the name of TORI AND MATTHEWS sandy said no.  So i asked sandy to hold while i called David Houston back on three-way because no one was making sense (or at least these weren't the normal debt practices I was aware of) DAVID HOUSTON DID NOT ANSWER HIS PHONE IT CONTINUALLY WENT STRAIGHT TO VOICE MAIL.  THEN IT WOULD RING AND THEN GO STRAIGHT TO VOICE MAIL AND I CALLED SEVERAL TIMES DAVID GAVE ME HIS CALL BACK NUMBER OF: 913-586-0342 AND HE DID NOT ANSWER.

I READ A POST SIMILAR TO MY SITUATION WHERE THE GUYS NAME WAS LARRY DANIELS AND HE WOULD NOT PICK UP/ ANSWER HIS PHONE WHEN THE CONSUMER TRIED TO CALL HIM BACK.  I CALLED THE 913-586-0335 number and a man answered the phone with a very suspicious "Hello..." I said "Hey, is larry there?" he replied this is Larry. Who is this? I gave some random name and he asked "DID YOU GET A VOICE MAIL OR SOMETHING? i said no I found your number online and I was trying to get in touch with david houston. He said they had a DAVID PRICHARD.  I told him the man I spoke with told me his name was DAVID HOUSTON (OH BY THE WAY HIS VOICE MAILS SOUND LIKE HE PRONOUNCES HIS NAME AS HUGHES BUT WITH ME HE SPECIFICALLY SAID HOUSTON)  LARRY HUNG UP THE PHONE AND WHEN I TRIED TO CALL BACK IT WENT STRAIGHT TO VOICEMAIL.

As a last straw I decided to call David Houston/ Hugh's bluff and contact the district attorney's office.  I explained to the woman everything that is noted here and she said to me that that's not how it works, it's not that simple as far as involving the district attorney that realistically I wasn't about to be arrested.  She told me to make sure I kept records of everyone I spoke to. And what David did over the phone is considered threatening that I am not required to give out any information nor to be threatened and she advised me to file a complaint withe the FCC... Which I am working on as well... Sandy from vantage point made a comment that it may just be a tactic to scare me into paying the debt but she knew this is what i felt and this is when i told her that i work in collections and know that you want to say whatever you can to ease the debtor's concerns to get the money.  But the woman I spoke with over the phone at the district attorney office felt it was a scam as well...

David Houston called me and left a message @ 410pm today wanting to speak to my wife about an investigation involving her, and left a case #.  Whith the commnts above must be a debt collector stooping to low measures.

This is a Fraud. They play the same game with me.

Is this guy for real? or is he just trying to get money from me.  The whole having someone else come to the phone kind of made me think it was phony, but I don't want them knocking on my door.

Ignore the post above.  This is a fraud. Contact the police if you get a call from this number.

Admin Edit: "It's a FAKE comment!"
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Mr. Houston contacted me from Torre and Mathis claiming I had a felony charge pending warrant for my arrest. I advised him that I did not know of any bad checks I wrote. Mr. Houston provided me with Banking account info under which the check was written. I remembered what I had done and the closed account in which the check was drafted. I thought that it would be written off as a bad debt and damage my credit report. Mr Houston advsd me that he wasn't interested in any payment and that the warrants were going to be generated once information was processed with the state attorney. Mr Houston offered to contact the state attorney prior to the afadavit being faxed to see if they would allow a "Stop-Action Order" if payment was recieved. I told him I could and would not pay for something this old thinking that they couldnt do anything to me  after this long.  Within 48 hours officers were sent to my job and I was jailed, and because I was already on parole I could not post bond. I was sentenced to a year in jail because of a $600 bad check for "uttering a worthless check and intent to defraud a financial institution". It is not worth Jailtime over $600.00 and you will spend more in court cost anyway not to mention the embarrasment of being arrested at work. If someone calls you about a bad check PLEASE!!! take it seriously and if they are willing to accept the payment, PAY IT!!!.