The same thing happened to me. Actually my parents received the letter at their house, which I no longer live at on the 26th of Feb. It stated the exact information as yours. My mom noticed it was stranged and mentioned it was most likely a scam. I did not see the letter but she said it came in a plain envelope with no letter head and some parts hand written. Exactly as Nicole received it.
So I called the number last night and got a voice mail with no name. It said, "please leave your name and number and someone from customer service or accounting will get back to you." I got a hold of this woman on friday morning and she state the exact same thing. I heard her wrestling around with papers in the background and talking to someone. It sounded very shady. I asked her if I could have the number of the company and she said there is no number to reach them.
Once again I became very suspicious. She was extremely nice to me on the phone and I kept telling her I don't believe this. She explained that it happend sometime in early 2002. I said this is the first time I have ever received a notice. She said the company by law didn't have to find me and went into some attorney general bullshit.
She said I owed the exact amount of $189.89 by March 1. After a while of bullshitting she said she would mail me out a copy of the invoice to take a look at and I can pay it in the middle of March. That seemed more shady to me. She also told me that they will be taking it to court at the end of March in California or some other state. She said I wouldn't have to attend but will receive the decision by mail. It will cost me about $3,000.
I find this to be extremely shady and was wondering what everyone else who has received this is planning on doing? Let me know.
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