My father and I have the same first name. For months & months there have been called placed to a house my parents own in California, asking for someone with our first name. When my mother finally took one of the calls, it turned out to be Portfolio. They were trying to collect from me, but on ...
Today 9/30/08 my son went to Virginia Personnel Services, Inc. Because he said they had tons of warehouse, and office jobs that start at $18/hr. I thought that this was an actual company looking to hire people (I didn't see the ad, or I would have told him not to go). When I dropped him off little ...
Out of the blue in early September I received a call from a creditor claiming to be collecting debt. I knew I didn't have any outstanding debt, so I took the call in good faith believing that this was an honest mistake that could be easily cleared up. The creditor had my name incorrect and ...
I too was taken on the free postage scam plastered over their www.When you get to the end of the ordering process, quite confident that all the items you have selected get you up over the $100 minimum, there is a postage amount dumped in there but like in other sites, you presume when you click to ...
I just received a call from Portfolio Recovery Associates just now (9/26/08) at 3:31pm (EST). They claim that I owe a bill from 1995 from Air Mobile. They also said that they are reporting this on my credit report (yes, I have just requested copies of my credit report to verify if this is true!). ...
This is what happened to me. About a week ago I received a call from these guys telling me that because I am in such good standing with my credit card company that they have chosen me to receive a $1000 shopping spree. All I had to do was verify my card. While I was suspicious I was in hurry to get ...