Apr 23, 2010
Yup, these are really the con's of the cons. (keep reading to the end) Just cancelled my debit card as I "fell" for the bully, "Agent", Nelson & Hirsch baloney....that was AFTER I thought I had done everything "right" to try to check them out while I was online with them. I have to tell you...do NOT fall for the harassing, bullying, threatening ("I'm just gonna process you out and you will have to deal with the judicial system, being served and sentenced for fraud") and intimidation tactics. I actually believed that I owed a debt, which I discovered I didn't; even though I had done business with the group they identified almost 10 years ago.
I told this "Agent" Faulkner I needed to verify her info before giving her my debit card number. She gave me a telephone number and it went to her own answering machine. I explained that was not a number that would provide verification. She gave me another number "for downstairs" (different area code) and I tell the person that I was verifying someone professing to be collecting a debt....he asked my name, I gave it to him and he gave me info that showed he had accessed the account and told me he could tell I was talking to a Ms Walker (close to Faulkner; right?...I wouldn't give him the name of who I was talking to)....he puts me on hold. Meanwhile the "Agent" is screaming her brains out on the other line, had gotten someone else on the phone "Mr Tillman" and was complaining that I was talking to the wrong department...that she was with the "investigations department" NOT the number she had given me.
You would have thought I would have "gotten it" somewhere along this way; right? Nope. It became so confusing I gave her the card number while wishing my computer was working faster, because just as she was calling in the card number to give me an authorization code, I found this blog....said to her..."oh my gosh, you guys are the bad guys"... I told her to stop with the card....this was the only time I heard her back peddle a little bit and heard her tell someone in the room that I had "found the blog"...then she jumped back into threatening at the same time as she was proceeding with the card....HERE is where she overstepped the line into fraud: IF you authorize someone to use your debit card (by providing all of the info) then it can be disputed; however, it is not fraud (according to our bank); however, I was telling her to stop BEFORE it had been completely sent in.
This one claimed to be from Georgia. All I can say, as we continue to report to various state attorney generals, computer fraud, and various agencies, is I am so grateful I don't have the karma of these people. How tragic to have to live a life of such knowing con's. AND I suspect that any positive blogs on this site for this group are actually some of the "agents" FROM this con group.