I just got a letter from SKS Associates threatening to take $76 out of my bank account in THREE days, unless I gave them payment in some other form. They said if I didn't pay, they would send it to collection. I called SKS and asked to tell me exactily what taxing authority (state, county, etc.) the "property taxes" pertained to on my leased credit card machine through Lease Finance Group. They said, "the county where you live". I went to the county assessor and found they had no record of SKS, even though I gave them what was supposedly SKS's tax ID number. I called SKS back and insisted that they tell me what the taxing entity was. They put me on hold for a long time, and when the representative came back on the line, he said, "you can ignore the letter... This was a clerical error". Hopefully thistactic will help someone else too! I'm also filing a complaint with the NY Attorney General, Consumer Fraud division.
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