I dont know if this is the correct forum for this thread.
If anyone receives a letter from a collection agency called:
"Mccarthy, Burgess & Wolff"
26000 Cannon Rd
Cleveland Ohio 44146
888-8174-1750
855-832-8033
They claim you own money and to call them.
I got sent one of these letters stating I owed 55.57 to Verizon. I knew then something was not right. I played along and called the number.
After about an hour on the phone playing the game with them, I said something isn't right here, and hung up.
Reason I knew it was a scam, I do not have Verizon, have not had Verizon in over a decade.
I asked the rep to just mail me the invoice pertaining to this debt, since they had my address already, I'd like to see it.
Funny how she says, I have to have in writing that you are requesting this, or and E mail stating this, and she gave me her E mail. I said, NO you send it to me if you want your money....
That's when she says I will have to get a supervisor on the phone as well, which she did. First thing he asks me is"can I have the last 4 of your Social", I said no, you can't, just send me the damn bill, because you are all wasting to much of my time already. I proceeded to say again, I don't have Verizon, and haven't had it in over a decade.
The I hear her saying well, I can credit this...and shes doing make believe caculations. There was a long silence and angrily I said what are you doing? That's when I stated, something isn't right here, and hung up, like I stated earlier.
I can tell by the way they were talking they were getting tongue tied, and obviously by this time I knew it was a total scam. They told me the service was for an address, that clearly wasn't mine, I googled the address and it was a multi family apartment house here in Brooklyn, NY that I do not own, or live it. LOL
It just kept getting better.
I was careful to not use the word yes, in any sentence, as I know it was being recorder.....So after I had my fun and hung up, I put the name of the collection agency on the computer, and others people said basically the same as me.
what these 2 idiots didn't realize was, i was hip to them after she told me I was the one that had to E mail them first, and I was the one that had to send a fax to them stating it was ok to release the invoice to me.
dont think so.....................
so people, beware, there is a lot of scammers out there, and they are good, but we have to be smarter........
do not be afraid of calls or letters that state you owe money.
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