888-517-0244

I got a restricted phone call from a woman who said she was with a processing company.  That i had about two hours to contact the following number with a case number that she provided before a sheriff would come to my door and serve me with a subpoena to be in civil court.  the number was 888-517-0244....I called this number and provided the case number and was told I owed a debt of over two grand to a GM MONEY BANK??? I have no cule who they are....told me that if I did not pay up and settle over phone that I would be served with papers and that someone had come to my job today to speak with me...no one came to my job, my boss never called me, I was out sick.  What is this bogus stuff and should I be worried about it.  they told me I would get a FTA if I did not show up for court.  Never told me a county or anything...

I am an attorney and my wife got the same message.  When I called the number they refused to speak with me about it even though I am her legal representative.  Sounds like a fruad.  You should report them to the Federal Trade Commission as I am going to do the same.

They are full of baloney. I was told that I had reached a law firm, but they couldn't tell me the name of the firm, only that they handle civil and criminal cases. Before hanging up on me, the woman accused me of "having an attitude," and informed me that someone would be showing up at my place of employment. Whatever. When my daughter answered their original phone call, they tried to trick her into giving them information about where I worked, etc. This has scam written all over it, they're using scary phrases like law firm, processor, court cases, etc. just to worry people and trick them into giving them information. Shame on them for trying to trick a fifth-grader; fortunately she was smart enough not to tell them anything.

Global Bureau of Recovery   SCAMMMMMMM!!!!!
41663 Date St., Ste.201
Murrieta, Ca 92562
Phone- 949-751-1900
Phone- 888-517-0244
Fax- 949-751-1890

I recieved a call from my boss. She said "alicia" someone is trying to serve you , they left a number and a case number. So i called the number and they answered "Corporate Office"...First of all what the [***] is corporate office? "Corporate office of what??", she refused to answer. Then i told her that I had a case with there compnay so a guy by the name of James gets on the phone and tells me that basically he bought my Wells Fargo account and the amount is double and they are trying to serve me and if i dont pay 1100 today then they will take me to court and they will take %25 of my wages.

SO

IM

FREAKING OUT!!!


I was like "no this can not happen , ill pay the 1100 but i only have 300 dollars today" . He said he can only except 350..so i said deal. He then gave me his account number, he wanted me to go into the bank and deposit the money. Im like okay wait...something sounds fishy, i dont have to sign anything or no documentation of ANYTHING you just want me to walk in the bank and give you money. He kept saying no , your not giving me money im the law firm your paying my client "Global beau of recovery" so i said okay. I called back and wanted the number to "Global bureau of Recory" and he gave the same [***] number.

Mind you...if you look up the company on google....NOTHING...
If you look up the address....NOTHING
SCAM ...

I received the same call.  But what they did not know that I had completed a BK in September 2010.  I told them to fly a kite.  Then they wanted further documentation and personal info.  I said, if you are a law office, then you have the capability to subpoena me and the access to public record.  I told them to look it up themselves.  They hung up on me.  Total SCAM.  They tried to use scare tactics. [***]!!!!

Thanks guys for responding I am freaking out...they have called yet again from a restricted bnumber telling me that they are on their second attempt to contact me and that if I do not respond within two hours then they will try a third attempt and if I do not respond then I will have a failure to be served with the courts.....I looked up a failure to be served and I see no information on it....then they said that they were with County Private Process Serving Division for the City of Leland and they need toknow my place of work or my home address to send a uniformed officer and a process server out to my residence....Here's my thingking, tell me if I am right?  When you are served you can be servedin person or by certified mail...they will not serve me in person bc I will not give out my private information so shouldn't I wait until I get something in certified mail form before I react???  Why are people allowed to do this?  I called the clerk of court where I live and neighboring counties and they said they see nothing on me... yes I owe debt but it has already eben written off on my credit report so shouldnt this stuff stop?  Or is this a total scam that has nothing to do with my debt...o ya and they gave me a different case number this time also! Thanks again

i recieved a call from this company that gave me a number 888-517-0244...when calling back i provided my case number and they tran me to a "legal department" come to find out that this was a bill that i did owe.i havent been in contact with them in several years..now im being sued...i did varify that they owned this account....before you pay them my advice to you is that you varify they own it,thats it.Ofcourse people who are looking for a way out of paying a bill are going to come up with all these crazy claims,when its all said and done,only you know if you owe it or not

I got a call from them 3 weeks stating they were a law firm also. I finally believed them  after i paid them 250 I saw this website. I should have looked this up first.  The names of the people I got were Mr.allen , mr. stone   and ebony i even have a bank account number for them. since i was stupid to believe that i was gonna have attorney after me, What do i do who do i call? The people told me that i had until 5 pm to pay 595 and i was not paying that much too. but god i am pissed i fell for this crap  please tell me who to call.

They are telling me of a debt that I owe to GM Money bank who I do not know but the accoutn originally came from Belks deparmtent store.  I owe Belk some money but not what they are trying to collect.  They made their third attempt to call me today and stated they would stick me with the courts as a failure to be served and that they were a litigation department and I needed to call same number of 888-517-0244.  I have not called back bneucase I feel like it is a jip.  I called the clerk of courts offices in my surrounding counties and they have nothing on me.  I am unsure about what to do but I do know that I owe Belk but they have written it off on my credit report and I do not know who this GM Money Bank is or why Edward Great fromt his company keeps contacting me.  Any advice?  Concern: did you pay off the debt? How did they get to suing you?  Are you fighintg it in court?

just got a call from sandy allen with coweta county private processing division with that same threat.

she didnt even pronounce the county correctly.

after reading this, and several other posts, as well as going to the coweta web site AND googling the division... guess what? it doesnt exist.

scam

Just got a call from the same no. put did not answer it. A message was left. I will listen to it later. I might of heard a name. I so I will give it. They were trying to harrasse me.

I received a call from the restricted no. yesterday, I posted it. My husband even got a call and the caller told him if I don't call within two hours I would be seeing a officer of the law. He would not tell my husband nothing. But his name was different than when I heard my message. Because of the stress he caused on my husband he had to go to the emergency room with attack of gastritis. These people are going to pay. I am trying to see if I can have KCRA channel 3 check it (Call 3). I hope it works.

got a call from 888-246-6428 on my answering machine telling me that I was being served or is to be served and that I need to call them back. they also gave a case number. the state i live in that is not a normal civil case number? but who know any help anyone can give me?

My wife, receives a call today on her cell from someone named Don Johnson looking for ME saying that i have 2 hours to contact the law firm at this #888-517-0244 to schedule a time to serve me with court papers for a lawsuit.  How they got her cell is beyond me.  

I call the number back myself, and get some guy named James Stone on the line saying that he works for the Law Offices of John Edwards and they represent the account owner of my open debt and that i have 2 hours to go to my nearest Bank Of America branch to make a deposit into his account to clear my debt and avoid a lawsuit.

I told him to go ahead and fax me some backup on this debt and his company so i can make sure that this is even legit or not.

He does fax me the info, but of course, i can't find anything online about his company.  

Interesting enough, the fax comes through on the letter head of Global Bureau of Recovery: 41663 Date St., Ste 201, Murrieta, CA 92562, Phone 949-751-1900.

So which is it, does he work for The Law Offices of John Edwards or Global Bureau of Recovery?

After reading a lot online about this guy, i realize now that there is no lawsuit and i am going to get served anything today.  He is clearly attempting to scare me to pay the debt by claiming the sheriff is going to come to my door today to serve me if dont go to the bank within 2 hours.

this is not how debts that are in collections get paid off legally.

I felt like i was getting hustled over the phone by the maffia.

Or i was in a movie where i had two hours to save the girl otherwise its the end of her.  

Geez... how do these idiots sleep at night?

people are always looking for someone eles to blame for they're neglect if you paid you're bills,the economy wouldnt be like it is,no one made you sign that contract now the credit card company wants there money, you want to blame someone, you are raising you children to be professional debtors,and liers so if you want to call someone a dummy look in the mirror when living in the glass house dont throw stones,they are calling you for money you arent calling them so who stupid? i am from the show me state i look these people up,they do have a web site

I just experienced the same thing, same # 888 517 0244. Im reporting these clowns.

Hey Mrs T.  First of all, i don't know who you think you are, but you are obviously not an English teacher.  If you're so smart, like you are trying to make yourself seem to be, you'd know how to write in English.  I hope your kids are not learning how to speak and write English from you.  You're clearly an idiot yourself.  So you're just teaching to grow up and present themselves like they don't have an education.

Secondly, I didn't even know I had the debt that this debt collector is resorting to EXTORTION to scare me into paying.  My ex-wife opened this account without my knowledge.  I actually have ZERO debt currently, aside from this new account that has just surfaced.  

You do realize that they are committing extortion, right?  Scaring me into paying a debt by saying the sheriff is going to knock on my door in 2 hours unless I go deposit money into their bank account within those 2 hours, is EXTORTION.  Something tells me though that you are just way too stupid to see that.

And even if i did know about this account, there are LEGAL ways for these people to come after me to collect.  Breaking the law and extortion are not the answer.

I hope you're not teaching your kids that extortion is legal and the way to solve their problems.
Or better yet, i hope you're not breeding.

Thanks,
Joe

I also got a call from these clowns and then they called my employer, saying they
were the "server" looking for me (that was when they lost all my trust-when they called
my work place)...used the same threats etc...saying if served I would have to pay a 250.00
fee (I checked with my local sheriffs office-fee for serving someone is 25.00)...these jerks
are arragant and pobably not to be trusted...they broke the law in contacting my work place
and boss...I stopped a check I  stupidly gave them over the phone...they try to make you
panic...

alrite creeps here is the website for --www.globalbureauofrecovery.com....check it out,send your blogs there

I received this same call today and thought it might be a scam.  I phoned and got the same James person who of course wouldn't tell me which company he was from.  He asked me to hold as he was on another call and he would get right back to me and I was disconnected.  I didn't call back.