On March 8 I was contacted by this DC/APE Processing and told that I owed $692.56 on an old credit card and if I paid it now they would give me a "settlement" amount of $420, so I put $210 on a credit card that day and made arrangements for them to take $210 out of my checking account on April 3 after which they told me they would send me an email stating Paid in Full.
They did take the money out and they did not send me an email.
A couple days later I got the same phone call from another company asking for the same amount on the same delinquent credit card, I stated I had all ready paid it and they told me no, I didn't after which I started investigating into the DC/APE company and learned they were a fraudulent collections institution.