Capital Acquisitions & Management Company Camco inconsistent ripoff, intimidating strong arm tactics, just plain rude ROCKFORD Illinois
September 25, 2003 I received a message from my grandmother that my "friend" Sarah Jones was trying to reach me. I know for a fact that I do not have any friends named Sarah. I returned her call to see what this was really about. She then informed me of a debt from 1991 in the amount of $1228.58 from GE Capital. WHO? She informed me I must have bought furniture or something. Whatever.
At this point I am a little nervous as I am not quite sure what to make of this situation. Long story short, she and her supervisor Leon Thomas faxed me a bogus affidavit and assignment dated for that day,I would at least think it would have been from the original alleged debtor or something, as well as a settlement offer in the amount of $737.15. Basically, they sent me nothing to prove this was a valid debt.I immediately went searching for any information on this company via the internet. Thank God for this site.
I almost bought into the scam and used my savings to pay a debt I really have no recollection of. I informed them I would not be sending any money. They rudely informed me they would be doing a credit and asset search and that I would be sorry. I heard nothing until last week when I received a letter (post marked out of Houston, Texas) from Camco extending to me the "most generous offer of settlement" in the amount of $491.43. I am sending them my cease and desist letter today.
Please note they can somehow get your phone numbers by you calling into their offices. I called from work and even *67 blocked our number and yet the still called me back. I immediately told Sarah not to call me again at my job and she at least so far has complied with that. I did not focus on their rude tactics as this seems to be a prerequisite to work there.
Amanda
Vallejo, California
U.S.A.
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Jeff
Columbus,Ohio,
U.S.A.
SOUNDS LIKE A RIPOFF
#2Consumer Comment
Mon, December 01, 2003
I too have gotten calls from Camco, where the gentleman called my grandmothers house looking for me, posing as an old high school friend, made sense, I havent lived there since high school, so I called it back, they were trying to collect on a debt from 1990. Thats not the point of my story though. The lady that filed this original report stating that they know your number when you call in. The case with this and just about any other company you may do business with is simply that they use caller ID. The only difference being that when you are calling into an 800 or other type of toll free number, regardless of whether you block the call or not, your number will always show up because the party you are calling is paying for the call, and is therefore allowed by law to see any and all numbers that call in to it, same as 911 emergency and a lot of other government/ law enforcement agencies. A little off topic there, but I thought some insight would help.