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I speak with some one call from Altus Global yesterday 504-469-9545/1-800-509-6060 want to speak with accounting, I say leave message then he'll call you back. Today Andrei Thomas calls again leave message concern his client Cogate for collection, is it a Scam?

For those of you in Texas... here is an interesting article well worth the read! Consumers winning lawsuits against collectors not following the lawBy MARY FLOOD Copyright 2009 Houston ChronicleGot debt? If you’re being harassed by collectors, you may also have a good lawsuit.Lawyers in the debt business say that as collectors get desperate in these tough times, consumers are increasingly fighting back by suing those who use illegal tactics.In Houston, U.S. District Court statistics show lawsuits filed against debt collectors under a federal consumer protection law are up 60 percent the first quarter of this year, compared with the same time last year.“This is definitely increasing in popularity,” said Daniel Ciment, a Houston lawyer who once owned a collection agency and now sues debt collectors. “It’s most likely because debt collectors are hurting.”Houston lawyer Dana Karni, who teaches consumer law, said the law essentially allows consumers to get their own private attorney general.“A lot of consumers don’t understand that they can go after the debt collectors and they can get paid for their pain and suffering and their attorneys fees can be paid,” Karni said.Karni sued for Evelyn Turner when debt collectors relentlessly called her while her husband was in Iraq, threatening the Huntsville woman would lose her freedom and her children if she didn’t cover a debt she’d long ago arranged to be paid with a home equity loan.“They said I’d go to jail, lose my family, my home, never see my children again. It was really brutal. It was horrifying,” said Turner, who husband is a civilian worker overseas. “I didn’t know I had the right to make it stop. After balling my eyes out every day, I broke down and one of the ladies at the office told me to get an attorney.”Turner’s title company hadn’t paid the debt as promised. Turner’s happy now with the $17,500 she got under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Karni got more than $50,000 in legal fees and costs reimbursed.Karni said there aren’t many lawyers doing this, but some can make a living suing collectors.“Anyone who thinks there isn’t collection abuse is an idiot,” said Manny Newburger, an Austin-based lawyer who defends debt collectors nationwide. But Newburger believes it’s a few bad actors in a legitimate industry.“As long as you have human beings doing this, people are going to screw up,” Newburger said.Those screw ups often involve breaking laws about when to call, how often to call, when to stop calling at work, who can’t be told about debt and about making false claims such as threatening jail time, the forcible taking of a person’s home, or wage garnishment.Matthew Probus, a Sugar Land lawyer, filed a lawsuit in March for a Houston woman headed to the hospital to visit her prematurely born daughter when debt collectors started harassing her over a $200 debt she owed Target.“She got five calls in 30 minutes. It was sad and outrageous,” said Probus, who used to be the lawyer for a collection agency and switched sides.He said folks can sue under state or federal law, though he leans toward the federal law. A basic case may get the $1,000 maximum under federal law but, he said, people who have really been bothered with dozens of daily calls or stress that results in hospitalization, can get more.Newburger said it should not be forgotten that most of those called actually do owe money and sometimes the debtors lie to or use foul language with the collectors.“Bottom line: people who owe money ought to pay their bills, people who collect debt ought to follow the law and consumers have the right to expect not to be abused,” he said.The lawyers said Texas is especially famous for two multi-million dollar cases under the laws to curb debt collectors.A jury awarded an El Paso couple $11 million, though an appeal’s court cut that down to $1 million in 1998. Trying to get $2,700 owed on a VISA card bill, collectors swore at the couple, harassed them at work, said they’d put out a contract to kill one of the debtors and appeared to have called a bomb threat to a debtor’s workplace.In another legendary Texas case, an elderly woman with anxiety disorders was awarded $15 million by a Duval County jury after being harangued about a relative’s debt and believing threats she’d be jailed so she surrendered to confused authorities.

Jason Hartman from Altus Global Trade Solutions, 1-800-509-6060 ext. 2349, from their legal forwarding department, called to say that he has been leaving messages for 5 months (first time I have heard from them) saying that if we don't voluntarily comply with the $6,000 bill that we owe to Woodland Foods for one year now, that we will be dealing with their attorneys. (We have never done business with Woodland Foods).

I have been getting same calls but these calls were legitimate I DID RECIEVE THE FAX AND MY BOSS DOES OWE LARGE SUM OF MONEY AND HAS REFUSED TO PAY HE EVEN YANKED FAX MACHINE OUT BECAUSE I HAD TURNED IT ON AND HE RECEIVED FAX FROM THE COMPANY THAT HIRED THIS PI FIRM

Received a call from this number, when i picked up they aren't answering. few times a week. DO NOT CALL AGAIN.

A MESSAGE WAS LEFT TODAY ON MY PHONE FOR A COMPANY AND THAT THE "CIVIL INVESTIGATOR" WAS GOING TO VISIT THE PROPERTIES FOR "ASSET AND LIABILITY" INVESTIGATION. FIRST THE NUMBER THAT APPEARED ON CALLER ID IS THAT OF MO CIVIL COURT. HOWEVER THE MESSAGE SAID TO CALL 1-800-509-6060 X 115 TO SPEAK WITH THE "LEAD" COUNSEL THIS PERSON IS VERY CLEVER, FIRST OFF HE IS USING THIS NEW SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS AVAILABLE TO MAKE A CALL LOOK LIKE IT IS COMING FROM ONE NUMBER, BUT ACTUALLY COMING FROM ANOTHER NUMBER..THE NUMBER THEY USED IS THE MO CIVIL COURT NUMBER..THE "INVESTIGATOR IS SLY IN MENTIONING HE IS AND "INVESTIGATOR" VS SAYING HE IS FROM THE CIVIL COURTS (THE NUMBER ON CALLER ID) AND IMPLYING THE "LEAD COUNSEL" RE TELEMARKETER INSTEAD OF SAYING "LEGAL COUNSEL" TRYING TO MAKE THE CASE LOOK LEGIT...BEWARE THESE GUYS ARE SCAMMERS!!! THIS IS COMPLETE MISREPRESENTATION!! AND IM SURE THE MO ATTORNEY GENERAL WOULD LOVE TO KNOW THEY ARE IMPERSONATING A CIVIL REPRESENTATIVE AND USING THE PHONE NUMBER OF THE CIVIL COURTS TO DO SO.

Got a call from (302)268-8085 said his name was Jason Hartman said he was from atlas global trade looking for a Marsha goins gave a 1-800-509-6060 ext 2349. Was very rude and demanded a call back immediately with a case #1809786. weird thing I had other voicemails from those same numbers and those same voices and threats. But claiming to be different people raising money for too many different causes.. scam SCAM. Bully Scammers

It seems they are hiring out investigations now:called from (917) 254-3279 told to reply to the 1-800-509-6060 number:Paul GerberLicensed Private InvestigatorProfile Investigations (company)Asset & Liability Investigationsrequired to notify the investigateenotified 24 hours in advance of investigation start (to last about two days)Contact client directly:Mr. Keith West1800 509 6060 214CCNA Inc.Case investigation numberI have had my dad's old phone number for almost a year and evidently CCNA has not updated their records (or even called me before). This "Paul Gerber" didn't even realize that he WASN'T calling for me (called me by name) but for a different person.Also, it would appear that (917) 254-3279 is in New York.

asking person who its charge OF FINANCE .

collection agencies break down debt into two catagories. Retail and commercial. Retail is consumer debt, like when you don't pay a doctors bill or your Visa or Sears bill. Here you are protected by the FDCPA (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act). The other type is commercial, or also known as business debt. When you purchase something on credit for your business and don't pay for it. Under commercial you ARE NOT, repeat, YOU ARE NOT protected by the FDCPA, so you may as well quit crying and quit trying to cite verse after verse of something that will do nothing to protect you. It's not the creditors problem that the economy took a hit. The fact is that commercial collection agencies save every American Family nearly $350 a year in the money that is recovered and returned to their clients. If it wasn't recovered prices would go up to cover the loss.