Two years later, it looks like REALLY? and Gonnagetcha were right.

FTC suit names DeMarra J. Massey and Angela J. Triplett, operating out of Cleveland OH and Atlanta GA.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/10/pinnacle.shtm

The FTC?s complaint names Lisa J. Jeter, Nichole C. Anderson, Hope V. Wilson, Angela J. Triplett, DeMarra J. Massey, and their companies Pinnacle Payment Services, LLC, Velocity Payment Solutions, LLC, Heritage Capital Services, LLC, Performance Payment Processing, LLC, Credit Source Plus, LLC (Ohio), Credit Source Plus, LLC (Georgia), Reliable Resolution, LLC, Premium Express Processing, LLC (Ohio), and Premium Express Processing, LLC (Atlanta).

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation based in Atlanta and Cleveland that allegedly used deceptive and threatening tactics to collect phantom payday loan ?debts? that consumers either did not owe, or did not owe to the defendants.  The court order freezes the defendants? assets to preserve the possibility of providing redress to consumers, and appoints a receiver.

Listen to Wendy, they have employees posting replies on here as if they are really legal and helpful, just to prolong their scam. I worked there. Can't wait til they are caught. Ask them if they're so legal, why are they changing numbers every four months. Stayed there a while but knew something was wrong when attorney general called office and cops showed up. I hear they Demarra Massey and Darrel are operating out of atlanta now. Someone should tell Demarra to stop being such a ditz! She's is deep now. Just google her name, she's so stupid she's put her name online with the next company that she plans on scamming people under. You will see it's in Atlanta and Ohio.

For the past three days received a phone call from Michael Meadows on my answering machine, saying I have a restraining order that I need to call this number 804-316-9075. Haven't called yet, after reading your posts.  Looks like they moved to Richmond VA.  Need to let the California AG know this is definitely a scam.... Thanks for the heads up.

they have no number that shows up but ask you to call 202-738-4837........recorded message answers and states they are the United Judgement blah blah blah       The man I called told me they were a law firm out of Washington DC and who the lawyer was he said Kevin Graham.    So funny    they had my name somewhat wrong and he said he would "put me on the do not call list".  Typical for such scamsters.  I KNOW this is coming from payday loan -- had a family member get us all involved with that group and weve had several interesting calls coming from them I suspect.

YEA IM GLAD I GOT OUT A LONG TIME AGO MYSELF. AND I REMEMBER DEMARRA MASSEY TOO AND ALSO ANGELA TRIPPLETT, SAMANTHA B, BRANDON LEWINOUSKI, AND THE MOTHER OF DEMARRA MASSEY MARLO MASSEY..... AND THE OWNER OF THE PLACE NAME IS DARRELL AND HE IS IN A WHEELCHAIR. YOU CAN LOOK UP A SEGMENT ON DATELINE NBC HERE  http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/debt_collection_business_shut_down_090623   AND ALSO HERE http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29881849/ns/datel ... merican-crisis/

How can you expect people to pay something over the phone when THESE people don't even want to give you any information in reference to the bill.  They just want either your banking info or a credit card info.
I asked where are you located I will come pay so that I can get a receipt the same day and will pay cash if need be. They told me 3805 Cutshaw AVe Richmond, Va , so I wnet there and guess what........
A building set for demolesion    Strange that I would be given that info.
Spoke to the same guy twice Kevin Graham aka Chris Clark.
If they are legit then why so much secrecy???

My father just recieved  this message on his answering machine about my husband. I have never once used my fathers house number for anything or my husband. My father just got that number. It was really weird. Any ideas how they are getting our info? We have no debt or loans out except for my student loan with citifinancial. It was William Oakes stating he was an investigator and had a restraining order on my husband.  This freaked my dad out..thought we were in some kind of trouble. But he told him no one lives there by that name and to stop calling. I called the number that was left on the message private because i didnt know if it was a scam so i didnt want them with my number...and told them they left a message for someone who didnt live here. He said ok i will take your number off our list. I said ok dont you want the number i want you not to call and he said oh it just popped up and hung up on me. which i know it didnt i called private. I called back 6 more times looking for info on their buisness..why they were claiming to be investigators.. address.. manager... how they got my info... anything! Everytime i asked a question he hung up on me. This has to be a scam.

Please go check the following website. All of your information is located on it. spokeo.com You will need to be removed from this website or people will have access to information about you, your family, even to and including your current homes value.

I was contacted by these people again over the weekend. This time they contacted tenants of the home I am renting, claiming they were going to take me to court and take my home for $300-500. The tenant was very distraught and contacted my rental company. I had to go update my current local claim with the police to get something done. They claim to be located at 3805 Cutshaw Ave, Suite 333, Richmond, VA 23230 but the phone number is from Durham, NC. I am now sending a certified cease letter, which I will probably have returned to me in a matter of time. Updates to follow

I also received the same call from a block number and wanting me to call them back at 919-408-7049 stating that there has been a warrant for my arrest and a restranting orders placed against me.  Thank you for this website, because I was freaking out at first and puzzled at the same time, couldn't figure out who would have a restrating order against me or arrest against me.  After I placed the number online and found this website, I'm glad that everyone on here was able to confirm my suspension that this is a SCAM!!!  I will be contacting the FBI to file a complaint against these A**holes!

Thanks SO much for the information & clarification...I appreciate it!  It's just amazing to me why these companies are not easily shut down with so many complaints.  Guess it just boils down to "picking the battles" & clearly; this one doesn't hold much priority.

Amen!

From what I've read and in doing my own research, this is a company that has somehow obtained credit information on the general public and is using that information in a false pretense.  They will contact the nearest relative or friend to give more legitimacy to the scam.  Often times the person being contacted may feel it's legit and therefore provide additional information such as an alternate phone number or work phone number.  

By giving a case number, again that provides more legitimacy to the person being contacted.  What they hope is that they will get someone on the line who is not saavy about their outstanding debts or who is not up-to-date with their own credit history and who, in turn, will provide a credit card or checking account number so that the debt can be paid immediately.  Once the company has that information they can then use the credit card and debit the checking account to their hearts content.

These are bad, bad people!

By the way; how does this work & why wouldn't they either contact me directly OR try to scam the person who they initially contactED (my sister)? & last; why do they need a case number - what's the deal with the case number & the special agents?

Thanks for all the posts - very helpful!  My sister received the same type of call/recording from a Glen Atworth saying that it was in regards to a court action & that I have 24 hours to contact them to dispute.  I immediately pulled my credit report to find everything was still intact.  I looked up the company & it doesn't exist.  Tried reverse phone lookup & no results found...only general area based upon area code.  Called the number & sat on hold for several minutes until a recording came on to say that I needed to call back during normal business hours - really?!  Since when is the middle of the day not normal working hours?!!  Called back again, pressed option2 & sat on hold for at least 10 minutes & ended up speaking with some "special investigator" named Kevin Graham who insisted that I give him a case number & could not help me otherwise.  Called attorney general who told me not to pay & that they've received several of the same calls.  She asked me to file a complaint - www.ncdoj.gov - go under the consumer link & click on file complaint.

Special Investigator John A. Walsh from United Arbitration left a message on our phone stating we had 24 hours to respond to an outstanding affidavit and restraining order. . .When I called them back, it went to voicemail...As I did not recognize the area code of 919, I looked it up on the internet. . Upon looking up the phone number, we discovered it to be a hoax.

United Arbitration Inc. is a legit company.  We are talking about United Arbitration Processing Services which is a bogus company leading a huge scam across the country.

I wanted to see why in the world I was selected by this company so I just pulled my free annual credit report through Equifax.  I have a credit score of 826 and the only open item is my mortgage which is correct.  I knew I didn't have any other outstanding debt but wanted to make sure something isn't being reported incorrectly on my credit report.  Obviously this confirms that this is a scam.  I recommend everyone receiving a call from this bogus company immediately report them.

Seriously?  If you knew anything about debt collectio laws in this country, you would know that this is not legit.

My mother in law received a call today from Della Robinson who left a claim number and the same phone # 919-408-7049.  When I tried calling back I got into the black hole loop of 'all agents are on other calls".  I tried all options given when calling and get the same black hole.  In reading the above comments, I believe that this is a scam.  Do not give out any personal information to these guys.

WELL GENIUS IF EVERYTHING UR SAYING IS TRUE WE ALL WANNA THANK YOU THEY OBVIOUSLY MONITOR THIS SITE SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY ARENT GONNA PICK UP AND RUN NOW MAYBE YOU SHOULDA KEPT THAT INFO OFF THE INTERNET FOR EVERY1 TO KNOW OBVIOUSLY YOUR INFORMANT DOESNT WORK THERE ANYMORE SO HE WONT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ANY MORE INFO GREAT JOB!!!!! BUB YOU'VE TIPPED THEM OFF

But you did just confirm the names address and illegal tactics are true. Thanks Trying to make a buck,I knew if I kept on I would get a few of you terrorist to confirm what I know. Good employees my a**.

Profit Jason, My profit will come when these Terrorist are shut down for good when I see their ring leader's being handcuffed on the nightly news. I worked too hard to let any terrorist take money from me!!!!

A young man that worked for these terrorist called me and faxed me all the info I needed to contact Ohio's Attorney General and the FBI. I can't get my money back, so my goal is to inform everyone I can that United Arbitration is a bunch of terrorist that will rob you blind. I could care less what anybody on this blog thinks is true as long as these terrorist are shut down and they can't rob another American for their hard earned money. People like this you are scared to death to have your information because you don't know they could be part of Al Qaeda!

Remember what was the first thing you thought. You thought it wasn't legit well it's not. Please think my dear if  you were a con artist wouldn't you have a way to get a fraudulent number? Yes you are confused just as I was at first especially when this guy called me after I payed these terrorist. CPD doesn't know they have an operation like this going on due to the simple fact everyone on this blog has contacted their local authorities not CPD. You and I might be the only ones that have. Another reason CPD doesn't know is because my informant told me the terrorist aren't allowed to call any where in the state of OH or NY. Be smart my dear do your research, and don't pay them a dime. Terrorist is what they are!!!!

You did the right thing my dear. They are a scam. As long as everyone else realizes it the faster these terrorist will stop there actions. Remember if you report them they are in Oh not NC. I feel for their s*** because I was scared. Don't let them bully you.

Yeah I was, but not any more my dear. Make sure you aren't either.

Are you sure your not one of these people that work there. Yeah he told me all about The western Union scam too and only someone that works there would know any thing about that. I will keep putting all of the information on this blog as long as you foul low life b*****ds keep trying to scam people. By the way no he did not ask me for any money at all. He just asked for me not to pay you any more money. I don't care if you fired him or not you did him a favor, just how he did me and all these other poor people a favor. And I do know you are in Cleveland Ohio not North Carolina. I guess Vonage will give a 919 area code to a fraudulent company in 216 area code. I think they should be investigated too. If you idiots had a clue you would know how the Federal Government operates. Until now they thought you guys were in NC not OH. But now they know. They build a trump tight case before they come with the cuffs my dear. I didn't retire to have scum like you take from me. I'm a blue blooded American. You and your company are no better then terrorist and the Government will stop you really soon. I'll be waiting to see your mug shot on the Nightly news young lady.

I agree wit you man im not paying anything if they summons me to court i just wont even show up how bout that hahaha so keep calling and ill keep talking you wanna give me a deal like 80% off then we can talk

Guys,

Another one. Voicemail on aunt's phone from Calvin Renault, a special investigator. DO NOT BELIEVE THESE SCAMMERS. He wanted my checking account so that I can settle my alleged $2000 debt for a delinquent mastercard by transferring me to an audit department of Credit 1 Bank. All b***s***. He also wanted me to say my SSN - stupid moron, I told him I worked in Customer Service myself and it is usually the agent verifying it and not the customer (otherwise the agent can just say "yes, that's it"). They also confused DOB, so they are not even good at what they do. I was also hung up upon 4 times and threatened with a lawsuit. I am scared that some people actually pay these moth******ers. Also, United Arbitration is a bogus company - this do***ebag runs it out of his garage, i bet.

I filed a complaint with the FBI and NC Attorney General's Office. Please do the same.