Nov 13, 2014
Yes. Read the other notes. Total scam.
1. Fraudulent check charges would be brought by the local public prosecutor. Debt collectors have absolutely no influence on public prosecutors or police. Check charges are only brought at the complaint of the bank or financial institution, not some scummy debt collector. In any event a bank would notify you first if there were any irregularities in a check you might have written. And try to settle the matter with you. No debt collector would be involved.
2. Process servers do not let you know in advance they are gong to serve you. They don't ask you for an address. They just serve you. Process servers are only used in civil cases. In criminal cases warrants are used and are only used and served by duly constituted members of law enforcement. In some cases police make straight-out arrests. In no case is a debt collector involved.
3. As has been pointed out in previous posts, this is a total scam meant to scare you into sending someone some money.
If they are bothering you, report them:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0149-debt-collection
Also contact your local attorney general
If they continue to bother you, tell them that you know this is a debt scam and that you are making a complaint to the police for extortion. Once you get a copy of the police report and they call you again , just read out the file number and the name of the PD or Sheriff’s office involved. Tell them you’ll be glad to send a copy to them at whatever address the jack***es are working out of now.
That is, if you can find them. They've been doing this sort of thing for years and no one has been able to location their focal point of operations. I'm betting it's someone's house or the rented back room of a commercial building somewhere in Texas.