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- Lansdale, PA, USA • Apr 01, 2024
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April 1, 2024: I received a phone call at 3:29pm EDT; didn't recognize the number, so I let it to go voicemail. The recorded message they left: "message for [my name], reference number [redacted]. I'm calling from Document Processing. We're following up on documents sent to you from J.A.A. in regards to a complaint. Please contact the [unintelligible] office to avoid legal complications at 866-308-0118 and for further assistance provide them your reference number." Around this same time, my ex-wife received 2 calls, one each on her cell and home phones; when she answered, the caller asked to speak with me (she replied that we've been divorced for over a decade), claimed they had papers to serve, and that they'd tried to reach me but my 'voicemail was full' (that's 100% a lie). Calls to her came from 516-963-3715 & 347-919-6748; both are probably "spoofed" numbers, since both numbers' Area Codes match her cell and home phone numbers respectively. AND shortly after the call to me, I received a text message (on my Google Voice number, not my cell) from an unknown number, 224-432-4853; text was simply "Hello how are you doing"; a few minutes later, a group message with the same text was sent - from that same number - to my Google Voice number and some other number I didn't recognize.

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- Los Angeles, CA, USA • Mar 25, 2024
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National courier and HR MANAGEMENT Called my mother harassing her telling her lies about me.

THEY SAID OWED A DEBT thst occurred in 2009 for $471.00 to a payday check loan company? In which is false!

They said I would go to jail if I did not pay today!

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- Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA • Mar 20, 2024
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This phone number called my brother incessantly trying to get in touch with me to settle a debt. My brother lives on an entirely different coast than I do and this place did not reach out to any other family members, just my brother over and over and over. It was a pre-recorded message stating that I owed a debt and that they were trying to get in touch with me to settle it.

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- Rockville, MD, USA • Mar 18, 2024
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The scammer claims that I have an unpaid loan from about 7 years ago and that I have a court date that I never heard of and have no documentation for. The name used was Brian Baker and the “company” was POS systems. They said I could settle out of court for about $1500 but they wouldn’t provide any information via email. They wanted me to agree to pay first. They also have all of my PII and rattled it off on the call without verifying that I was the appropriate recipient.

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- Clarkdale, GA, USA • Mar 08, 2024
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This company is a collection agency attempting to collect on very old debt that is no longer owed by making threats that consumers will be served at their job and taken to court if they dont pay. The owner and his friends have brought this scam from NY to GA.

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- Muncy, PA, USA • Mar 07, 2024
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Harassing phone calls every day and threatening with legal action if they were not called back.said they would send a process server to my home or work if calls were not returned

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- Carlisle, PA, USA • Mar 05, 2024
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On February 16, 2024 I received a phone call from (302) 676-0991. I did not answer it. The caller left a voice message. I think my machine began recording the message a few words in. The message ran as follows.

“…you as a respondent. It is imperative we hear from you immediately if you desire to handle this matter voluntarily. Contact the mediation department at phone number / 3026760991./ Please keep in mind if you fail to comply this will result in the forfeiture of your rights to (seek?) this matter, and a complaint will be forwarded out to your local jurisdiction. Consider this your official notification.”

The speaking portion of the message lasted 25 seconds. Then there were three seconds of fuzzy, static-y silence followed by two seconds of a prolonged, soft beep that sounded more like line a phone noise you hear before or after a call connects than an actual recorded beep.

You may notice the forward slashes I include in the message. These represent changes in the sound. The first portion sounds like a recording of a real woman. She sounds like a young, educated, no-nonsense Black woman with the emphatic but slightly bored, half-hearted tone you’d expect from someone whose job is bill-collecting. The second portion of the message sounds like a recording of the robotic, personality-less, accentless female voice you traditionally get on automated call menus. The third portion of the message initially sounds like the same woman who did the second portion of the message, but her tone is less robotic and more upbeatedly matter-of-fact. Her pronunciation shifts slightly at the end to sound a bit more like the woman in the first portion of the message, though the timbre of the voice doesn’t perfectly match.

I did not call back because I suspect this call was a spam call. For this reason I cannot offer any additional information about the caller.

I listed Carlisle, Pennsylvania as the place the scammer is operating out of, not because I think they are physically in Carlisle, but rather because I am in Carlisle, and so that is the location where the call was received. It may be worth mentioning I do not have a Carlisle phone number. I have a phone number with a *** (*********) prefix.

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- Mechanicsville, VA, USA • Mar 04, 2024
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My mom received a call from someone named Kimberly Gaylord but did not identify what law firm or any other information but gave a phone number (888-720-1955) and reference number for a return call. So I called back after not finding any info online about this number. I gave my reference number and was transferred to a Greenview Financial Solutions. The gentleman knew personal information which I confirmed (DOB, last 4 of SSN) but had my maiden name which I haven't used since 2007. Said that I had a breech of contract with some creditor named Midland Corp or something and had an outstanding balance of $3218 that was open from 2016-2018. He said they sent me a settlement notice in January of this year but did not receive any return mail nor a response so they were suing me for the $3218 in my local court. When I told him that this account was not on my credit report nor any collections, he tried saying that it was past the collections stage. I also know that creditors by Federal Law only have a certain amount of time to sue you for a debt and this is past that time period. After all that he said he was disconnecting the call. I have since pulled all 3 of my credit reports and there is no account in collections or on my report. Any my local court info site and there are no cases out on my name. I am assuming that they got my info off the dark web and are trying to scam me out of $3218.

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- Allentown, PA, USA • Feb 27, 2024
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received a call to call this company back concerning certified mail

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- Dallas, PA, USA • Feb 26, 2024
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He said I owed some America Bank miney for a loan I took out and that they were doing paperwork to take me to court to settle the loan. I needed to start making my lian payments..The only information about me the guy had was my name and a old address..

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- Mahopac, NY, USA • Feb 22, 2024
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Stated i owed for a credit card 14 years old that i have no knowlege of i asked for the documents to prove i owed this money and they refused to give it to me i spoke to a man named Lucus he was rude yelled at me and stated i was trying to get out of my debt

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- Round Hill, VA, USA • Feb 19, 2024
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Told me I had a pending case for a loan taken out years ago. Ironically I worked for the county and know there is no case. Did have a lot of PII which leads me to believe they found my info on a leak sourced.

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- Columbia, PA, USA • Feb 16, 2024
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they sent me a message to call them when I called they told be that the loan was from back in 2015 and for the past 8 years the company has bin sending me mail that i didn't get they where very nasty on the phone keep hanging up had some of my personal infomation but also had wrong infomation about email and bank account numbers

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- Fairfield, CA, USA • Feb 07, 2024
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Letter came in the regular mail not return slip or anything stating that I had an outstanding balance from a check N Go payday loan. And that I needed to pay $300 by a certain date and if I didn’t then I would be taken to court facing NSF fraud charges. The letter looks very fishy the font is different all over and the some of the font is blurry like it was a picture pasted to the page and they printed it.

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- Memphis, TN, USA • Feb 07, 2024
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Women call me and told me I had a debt that was being considered fraud as that I had not paid in over ten years. I at this point couldn’t remember if I had taken out the loan or not. I did sound

legitimate. They then stated that it was about to be processed in court. I need to set up a payment arrangement wusing my debt card. I could also pay a lump sum of 1800$. The email sent after taking my info was this.

First Step Servicing, Inc.

Mediation Department

P.O. Box 551236

Atlanta Ga, 30345

Tel: 1-855-485-6516

02/06/2024

RE: (My Name was here)

Original Lender: EZCorp EZ Money

Account Number: *776369224

Reference Number: 156673

Dear ( my name was included )

Our records show that your previous account was left with an outstanding balance that is currently in the amount of $1800.

To avoid forfeiting your rights to mediate, please remit your response today regarding the urgent matter. You can contact our offices today to submit your final intent on, the balance amount above, to resolve your past due account. This requires your prompt attention; continued disregard of this matter is not advised.

If you have any questions, or would like additional information regarding your delinquent account, please contact our offices immediately.

Sincerely,

John Franklin

Vice President

First Step Servicing

This is an attempt to mediate on a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. This communication was sent by a debt collector from a professional debt collection agency.

Notice to California Consumers:

The state Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Federal Fair Debt Collections Practices Act require that, except for unusual circumstances, collectors may not contact you before 8am or after 9pm. They may not harass you by using threats of Violence or arrest or by using obscene language. Collectors may not use false or misleading statements or call you at work if they know or have reason to know that you may not receive personal calls at work. Collectors may contact another person to confirm your location or enforce judgment. For more information about debt collection activities, you may contact the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-Help or www.ftc.gov.

For More information about the COLORADO FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, see www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/ca.

A consumer has the right to request in writing that a debt collector or collection agency cease further communication with the consumer. A written request to cease communication will not prohibit the debt collector or collection agency from taking any action authorized by law to collect the debt.

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- Mount Pleasant, MI, USA • Feb 04, 2024
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Received a letter in the mail from Progressive Legal Group saying. NOTIFICATION OF LAWSUIT & CIVIL COMPLAINT. That I owe EZMoney or EZCorp $1,421.27 and is due by Feb 1, 2024. I know I have never dealt with this EZ Company or ever herd of them. The convincing part of this Scam was they listed a place of my old employment years ago and that my Mother and Brother names were on it as something like co-signers and they had the last four digits of my SS#. Even included a Credit Score, which was way off from my actual score. The letter also claimed it was their second attempt, well this is the first letter I received from them. Now if this did happen 12+ years ago, which it didn't. Would most likely have shown up on my credit report as something like a collection. It's never been there. Before coming here, I did look this up and others in the U.S. are getting the same letters in the mail from the same ProgressiveLG saying the same thing that they owe EZMoney for all different amounts ranging from $800 to over 1k. Starting as early as in December 2023 on a few that I read. I find it phishy that as we are nearing tax season ProgressiveLG is trying to scare us or make us believe that we have debts and for some people it might be easier to just pay them off with our income tax money and forget about it. Oh yeah they claim that I wrote a bad check and or closed my account before EZ could withdrawal the money. Banks don't work that way, would have received some info on this transaction from my bank and most likely have had to pay the bank back with additional fees. That Never happened to me.

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- Newark, OH, USA • Feb 01, 2024
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Stated this was for a Payday Loan. Threatened legal action if I do not resolve this delinquency immediately. I checked directly with the company they stated I owed money to and they have no records of me within their system nor did any of the credit bureaus have this delinquency on my file.

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- Las Vegas, NV, USA • Feb 01, 2024
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They have my name, last 4 of my ssan, my address, and where i used to work, I have never heard of Ezmoney, a subsidiary of EZCORP, I have never heard of those two companys ever. They threatened to garnish my wages, and to put a lien agaisnt my property, I dont own a house, I'm retired.

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- Okemah, OK, USA • Feb 01, 2024
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Receive letter from progressive legal group from the address listed in this form. Contain personal identifiable information to include first middle and last name, residence address and last four digits of social security number. The document stated that there was a payday loan originating with checking go. Stating that the full balance was $1,087.35 and a settlement balance of $395 is due February 2nd 2024 which would be tomorrow. In the letter it also claims that this "account" was flagged with possible intent to commit fraud.

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- Waterbury, CT, USA • Jan 31, 2024
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A letter stating going to file a suit on behalf of EZMoney. Had family names on there. Where I worked 8 years ago. I don’t know EZMoney.

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