I got a call from a bridgett ford saying i had to pay $885.00 for a $480.00 payday loan from over three years old, that i had to pay $1/2 today or she was going to submit paperwork for my arrest, i told her she was being unreasonable and i coldnt afford that and she can be sued for felony harrassment theatening me like she was. She then hung up, she later called i asked for some kind of certified paperwork and she sent me a vindication letter using your name saying Oasis Collections sent my debt to freeman blair leagal mediations...

I received a call today from this company saying that I had to pay $700 today or be arrested after they contacted my nephew in another state telling him I had a warrant for my arrest and that I needed to them within an hour.  The first person that called me was Michael Turner who got angry and offensive when I asked questions about this "supposed" debt and told him he violated my rights by discussing this issue with my family member.  He hung up on me and I called right back and asked to speak with a supervisor.. This is when I was given to Bridgette Ford and she said I had to make payment immediately or they will file for a warrant with the AG office.  I checked my credit report... nothing... I called Advanced America... nothing... UGH

After reading theses posts I thought I should share my story too. I actually recieved a call from a rude lady at this company in February. She was very aggressive arguing with me when I told her I did not recall a loan from december 2011. After going back and forth I told her you have nothing to prove that I owe anything all you are doing is rattling off basic information anyone could look up. And she got very angry and said "Ok I'll just forward this to the attorney and you will be arrested then. Thats fine. Thats fine. You can just be arrested"  I said you know its illegal for you to threaten to arrest me and now no matter what you have violated the Fair debt Act and cannot collect any money because of that. And I will speak to the attorney general's office about you. Long story short , The "debt" was invalid and fake. When the company was contacted by the AG they refused to respond. They then turned around and sold the debt to another agency 5 months later. Exact same scenario happened and then the new place RUBIN AND YATES sold the fake debt to ACS American Check Systems and they contacted me last week about this same crap and are they are gonna get the same treatment as the last two. Bottom line?? All a bunch of scammers! and any moron who signs in here and tells a story about being arrested and/or served with papers absolutely is an employee of these fake law firms and is trolling these helpful sites to try and scare customers. WONT WORK!

I got a phone call and i have been paying money is this really a scam plz let me know it would take alot off .y chest

I am glad to see you contacted all the necessary places.  We made the same contacts.  I hope they get caught.

Report calls from this number to your Attorney General. This is a scam.

Today my wife received a call from this company via her dad and sister. She told her relatives that if she didnt call today that there would be charges of larceny, worthless check and theft by deception filed against her.  The name that was left was Michelle Parker.  When she called Ms Parker to obtain information regarding the accusation of these charges, she refused to provide the information and stated that she worked for the State of Florida Worthless Check and Fraud Division.  However, her office was located in Kansas City, MO.  She hung up on her 3 times until she finally stated that there is no way a resolution can be made on something if there is no information provided. She then began to tell my wife that she took a Advance America loan out between 2007 and 2008 in the amt between $175 and $220 and wrote check to them and this was an attempt to collect on a worthless check and if the amount of $613 was not paid today by 3:30pm via Western Union, then the charges would be sent to the State Attorney's office for a warrant to be issued for the local Sheriff's Office to pick her up.  After she called Advance America, they stated that they only used one company for situations like this and this sounded like a scam and not to pay it.  The company that handles their accounts was the State of Florida Deferred Presentment Transaction System . When she called them, they stated that they dont have ANY open cases for her.  At 3:15pm she received a call from Ms Parker wanting to know if she was planning to take care of her obligation in which we requested a copy of the documents to verify the instrument and was emailed a copy of a letter that had been typed up and wasnt signed.  On the top of the letter it had Oasis Collections with the Kansas City, MO address and then at the bottom it stated at the bottom it was turned over to Torre Matthews & Associates, Private Investigations and Legal Mediations.  When contacting the Federal Trade Commission, they stated it seemed like a scam, dont send any money.  When contacting the Florida State Attorney office, they had no record of this company or anything of the sort.  BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY AND ANYONE ASKING YOU TO WIRE TRANSFER MONEY IMMEDIATELY

SOUNDS LIKE THAT TO ME ALSO, AND I'M A AFRO AMERICAN, WHICH THAT SHOULD NOT MATTER, IT JUST WRONG

this just happen to my daughter, he call me this morning saying they need 9000.00 to day or she would be  it going to jail, my daughter called and he change it to 500.  Right than I knew did sound right.  I call to get the name of the company, a lady answer, I asked for the name, she gave the phone to a man.  the first thing he said was my daughter name, so they have a caller ID.  I called him out, and said what is the name of this lawyers office, CAUGHT him off guard. He tryed to talk over me, I didn't let that happen.  We contact the police also.  plus he said he work for the FED when he first call me.  FOUND A BETTER JOB,

I work in collections so I had to learn these laws and apply them daily: Per FDCPA laws it is illegal for debt collection agency to misrepresent themselves in ways such as: placing a sense of  urgency, telling you that you are going to be sued when you are not, claim that you are going to jail if you don't pay, urging you to contact the district attorney, having people like Larry Daniels, and David Houston/Hugh's make calls saying they are private investigators calling from the law offices because the person has been charged with bank/check fraud... my question to you is when you spoke with larry daniels did he say that he was calling from vantage point solutions (which is the collections company i was referred to about this debt after his partner david hugh's call me with this scam) If so every one needs to seek a FDCPA attorney and sue them.  One other thing that connected the collection company to the scam is that i never gave them anything but the telephone number david hugh's/houston called me on and they were able to locate the account directly.  So I suppose that's why the lady told me their calls are not monitored or recorded when I asked. But my question to you is how did larry daniels affiliate himself with Vantage point solutions?

scam???

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...

So, did you pay your debt?

Well I got a call from this number, and googled it and this is what I see. I have to tell you it is quite comical that all I see here is a bunch of lazy, thieving individuals who are trying everything possible to keep from repaying loans that they have gotten. Some of you should look up the word loan and read the definition. You people make me sick, and are what is wrong with this country. Thieves. Every one of you. By the way...I was misdialed, but called back just to make sure after seeing this. I pay my bills, perhaps you should all try doing the same, this page is for real complaints, not a public forum for petty women to banter back and forth. Get a life, really? Disgusting.

They called saying that they were going to arrest me for bank fraud.

SCAM ALERT  I got a call from Miss Mathews, 913-586-0341, claiming to be a collection agency and that I would be arrested for check fraud.  I took out a payday loan and within a period of one month paid off $200 more than I borrowed.  I finally closed my bank account.  They are now saying I owe $1,000.  Oasis collections (Torre Mathis & Assoc)  PO Box 26651 Kansas City, Mo 64105, phone # listed as   877-884-0311 (per the fax) sent me a fax listing my personal info and the fact that I owe them $1,000.  I asked them to itemize the charges but they couldn't.  They said they didn't have that info.  I'm a 68 year old disabled retiree.  I have health problems too numerous to mention.  They called my daughter-in-law and left a message that I would be arrested for check fraud which freaked my son and her out.  It caused a big family problem and is also ILLEGAL . I am waiting for an appointment with my lawyer.

Thepeople that called Mr Daniels / Mathis Associates in the state of Kansas we had two numbers 913-586-0335 and the one posted This man Danielson said he was a private investagator and Oregon state police and said my husband wrote a bad check and if he didnt send 865.00 doolars he would be in jail by the time he got off work.  My husband called the guy when he got off work and started asking him questions about where and when this happened he said Medfordso he asked him what documents do you have and he said he didnt have any at this time then my husband said I looked you up on the internet and seen you did the same thing to alot of other people and he is not getting a dime, at the end daniels just said keep your money and hung up on my husband. SCAM ALERT

Got a call from this number. It was a debt collector.

lmao now they claim im going to jail for calling them pretending im a investigator,funny thing is i didnt even call their dumb a***s yet,hell i look at it like this if they can call us harrassing us why cant we harrass their a** back!!!!

Do not send money it is a scam report them to your local police department!! If the call you again tell then you have reported them that they are a fraud and a scam !!! If they cannot supply you with paperwork it's a scam n then tell you to wire money !!! NO
Torre Mathis & Associates does not even exist !!!

I was called by this people and was told I going to Jail and I need to pay them 700 dollars.Almost had me convince to send  cash. They would not give me information where family could send money.Said they  have a third party collection agency to send payment to. I tried to get info to send payment to so that my brother could send payment to they would not give it to me

Oh me too trust me !!! everytime I call now they hang up on me lol !! so petty and useless, my mom was so uypset about it, but the funny part about it is that all the information he gives is public records you can search yourself on everything he says about you LMAO, this is so crazy. So ridicilious!!!!

I just called the ag also, and when i finally convince my hubby that this is a scam he was relieved,and Daniel just called my hubby and his nephew talking bout im bout to go to jail cuz i just called them acting as if i was a detective and that prison time and my hubby cursed their a***s out and told him they was a fraud,then Daniel gon say Mr.Wallace dont worry about the money we have it taken care of now....WHAT SERIOUSLY!!!!!!! Yall did all that talking about him going to jail,and he owe sum money somewhere in which he didnt,and he has bank fraud,which is also a lie and i been trying to tell you guys this all alone....hell they about to catch pure HELL from me for now on out lmao and i mean it

But what gets me is that Mr. Daniels sounds like an afro american male !!!! who has this much time on there hands that they do this mess

ME TOO LOL !! I REPORTED THEM TO EVERY AGENCY I COULD FIND !!!

this is exactly what they told me so i cursed them out.....

I THINK THEY POSTED THAT SO PPL BELIEVE THEM SUCH A SCAM

A man by the name of Larry Lorenzo Daniels called a relative of mine saying that he was an "investigator" and was investigatng a case of bank fraud in the state of Florida and that I had a warrant out for my arrest, and that at my former job in Florida at Regions bank I made a check and cashed it at a check cashing store. Well the dates that he gave did not conure to the times when I lived in Florida, so he then states to my mother that the only way he could not process the paper work was that if she could send $1500.00 right now and that if she didn't do that by 1pm that they were going to send the police to come and arrest me, when I contacted him he said that I needed to pay them 785.00 through Money Gram the information he have with that was as follows Name:VPS Refence Code: 7031 Case Number: 227118. The man Mr. Daniels says that he couldnt send me any type of paperwork or documentation of this matter, he then transfered me to someone other guy and this guys says well you knew about this matter and we are going to jail you for this and we don't care your going to jail behind this. and then hangs up the phone, I call back number amounts of times and no answer, until my mother calls and a lady answers the phone and says to her don't call this number anymore, and then starts pushing button's in her ear trying to divert the call. The phone nuber that is listed for them is 913-586-0335 is what was on  my caller ID and the name os the company was called Torre Mathis & Associates

Do not call me or my husband house or cell phone or his job anymore!!!! we have contacted our bank and the vicksburg police,kansas city police department,advance america,(bbb) better business bureau,consumer protection division and non of these ppls i have listed have ever heard of you and they're all saying this is a scam!!!! so if you call my husband job again you'll will be prosecuted and everyone are aware of this sceme you all trying to pull on ppls,how about yall send us something in the mail confirming this situation first,or perhaps you'll may have yourselves the wrong Reginald!!!!!!

Thanks in advance his wife.....

Shill alert !!