I applied for a job at Rincon Filing Services aka Rincon Management. The ad in Craigslist said they have 7 offices with 20 more pending. There were in fact several offices in the building, all with different names. They usually had some sort of filing serice in the name to make people believe they could file lawsuits. I met with John Cook who offered me a job immediately. He said it was commission only employment. Although I knew that the job did not meet the conditions for an independent contractor status, with the amount of commissions that he was offering, and that people stated they were earning, I decided it was worth it.
I went to work the next day. And sat with someone to train. She stated that the first person we were to call was the debtors employer and then call the relatives next. She called the employer and asked to speak to the immediate supervisor of the debtor. She informed the debtors boss that a process server was coming to the place of employment to serve a summons on the debtor because legal action was being taken. If the manager asked what it was about, she said she did not know if it was civil or criminal. She was just the process server.in order to divert the summons from the place of work the manager was to give the debtor the phone number to the legal office and the case number. The employer always gave it to the debtor.
If the company did not want to cooperate, then they were to say that it was illegal for them to interfere with a process server and they could be liable for a criminal offense. When the debtor called the "legal office", the phones were in the same room, just a different group of people. Those people threatened the debtor with a lawsuit, threatened to garnish their wages, take their house and car if they did not pay up. They added on collection fees and fake court fees that tripled or quadrupled the amount if they went to court and offered to settle for a lot less, but only if they settled that day. A lot of people fell for it. I heard some people telling debtors that they were the sheriffs department, that a "uniformed officer" would be out to serve them, and they curse them and called them names. Everything about their practices was in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
This was the sleeziest crew I had ever seen. About half of them had multiple facial piercings. Some of the women wore booty shorts and had their boobs hanging out. The rest were just people who had fallen on hard times and would take any job. I don't think anyone realized that what they were doing was illegal. Since it was commission only, a lot of them were making little to nothing. The guy sitting next to me had worked the first month and got nothing. The people who were making all of the money were John Cook's family and buddies.
He gave the new work to them and gave everyone else old files and dribbled a little new work to them. If they quit before a month was over, then he got everything they collected and they got paid nothing. He was essentially getting his old files worked for nothing. Most people quit within a few days to a few weeks. The turnover was unreal. This guy is being investigated by the Corona police who are sending files to the FBI. If he offers you a job, stay away. You could be caught up in legal problems. I quit really fast.
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