877-745-9562

Kramer, Linkie & Taylor, LLC
GEORGIA OFFICE  FOUR PIEDMONT CENTER, SUITE 205  3565 PIEDMONT ROAD, NE
ATLANTA, GA 30305  (877) 745-9562   (404) 890-5822    
DC OFC  9210 CORPORATE BLVD  STE 350  ROCKVILLE, MD 20850  (877) 745-9562
(240) 880-1606


This is clearly yet another of those myriad bottomfeeders’ reps sprung up as yet another of those casualties of the ongoing economic downturn.  

My first exposure to this outfit was an inappropriate robocall at 8:16 AM PDT on Saturday, 3/19/11, putting forth a litany of instructions and pronouncements including that if I listened to the entire message I would have acknowledged that I was [So-and-so].  Totally off the grid for starters; in the first place it’s usually assumed that calls from this type of concern prior to 9 AM and/or on the weekend are outside the law under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act.  

The first instinct of course would be to contact  the Federal Trade Commission Consumer Response Center (1-877-382-4357) and file a claim.  The FTC attendant will usually suggest that one first write to the offender and let them know that s/he wishes to cease all communication with them.   After the written communication is received, the perpetrator is only allowed to contact the victim to confirm the receipt of that directive.  There are other remedies that can be employed as well, to include the offices of the federal and states’ Attorney Generals.

You're wrong. bill.  Wrong on the days and times, but mainly because nothing here is newly sprung up.
When one of the referral sites listing collection lawyers on a  national register showed Kramer, Linkie & Taylor to include the name of Chris Bracken, a bell went off in my head.
Was this the same individual known as William Christopher Bracken III, a major kingpin of the infamous collection megamill Mann Bracken that did an epic crash dive in the courts last year as chronicled in the  Sun?  Or possibly an offspring?    

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-01-22/b ... ctions-agencies

Further research confirmed the first firm bearing the name "Kramer" had brazenly asserted its successorship to Mann Bracken..  

http://www.debtorsunite.com/Blog/Debt-Managem ... efunct-Man.aspx


Looks like when these operators get cleared away under one name they just resurface and charge on ahead under another.  Too bad that’s allowed.

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Anyone who gets one or more of these calls without any prior dealings with them or knowledge of them – as in just plain bill’s case - by all means should not neglect to file with the Do Not Call registry, and file complaint(s), at https://www.donotcall.gov/ .  If you’re registered for 31 days or more as Do Not Call, those calls and particularly recorded calls are out of line.  You can file a complaint; click on “File a Complaint.”  There’s a place on the form for your address  BUT YOU’RE NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE IT IN ORDER TO HAVE YOUR COMPLAINT ACCEPTED.    
Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008.
Read more about it at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm.       ♥
(The Registry phone number is  1-888-382-1222.)

✰  TO THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT A LAWYER:  ✰
A free lawyer at a public agency represented a buddy against what must have been the same bunch as this when some or all of them were called Mann Bracken before it got run out of business.  
He put my friend savvy to a device known as the "debt validation letter" for use by people that find themselves  up against this and similar outfits but that don't have access to a lawyer.
What you do is google   debt validation letter   and when the samples come up pick one out and copy it making needed changes as to to and from etc and fire it off registered or certified so you can show you did send it if and when it actually gets to court and as happens in 99% of cases the bottomfeeder plaintiff is clueless as to the history of the debt the case will be thrown out.  
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These guys contacted me about an American Express card, saying they represented American Express. American Express never heard of them and they put it in writing. Looks like Scott Kramer, Matthew Linkie, Chris Bracken and Keith Taylor get to look for work again. The Maryland Bar is taking measures and I am filing an FDCPA suit.

Kramer Linkie Taylor is Mann Bracken all over again, same people, same scams:

http://kramerlinkietaylorwatch.blogspot.com/2 ... more-proof.html