I was contacted on April 29th and April 30th from a process server by the name of Michael Collins who left messages on my voicemail instructing me to be available between the hours of 5-7pm so that he may come serve me court documents. He said he would also come by my place of work if he did not reach me at home. This process server left no return phone number nor did a number show up on my caller id. He said that I could contact this number 1-877-552-9903 if I had any questions. By the time I checked my messages, it wasn't until May 4 when I called to find out more about this issue. I called and was told by a Stephen Lynch Case #JHC3960 that I a judgment is being brought against me for bad check writing and defraud. Apparently, I had an online payday loan from a company dba Sagamore Finanicial on 9/4/12 in the amount of 480 ($300 loan + 180 fee). Including court fees, etc, I owed about $2960. I was told that if I paid the $480 today that they would not go forward with filing court proceedings. McGuire Mgmt had my telephone number, a home address, place of work, last four of my social security only, my bank account number. I was told that I took out this loan and it was deposited into my account on 9/4/12. I asked why wait three years to try to collect, I didn't get a very good answer. I asked if I could have more time to look into it. He said he could only grant me 24 hours. I said okay.
Meanwhile, I put a call into the bank that McGuire Mgmt had on file for me and that account had been closed since 2010, so how could a deposit be made to that account. Also, no one tried to serve me at the address they had on file for me, one because there no records of me every residing at that address. I also went as far as to call the courthouse for my county and see if there was anything submitted in collections for me. My next step was to have the police investigate this issue.
When I called back to get more information, A John answered, maybe John Patterson or some other individual which gave me their address of 600 Madison Ave #200 New York 10022. So when I Googled them online, I found the same exact conversation on the Ripoff Report website on 5/1/15 for the same company. WIth all the information that I gathered allot of this stuff just did not add up, it did not make sense to me. I have decided not to have anything further to do with this so called company and their apparent SCAMMING. I also looked up the address of record they said that I lived and found references to the so-called process server last name Collins and the agent Lynch whose handling my so-called account at McGuire.
If they try to contact me after today, I will ask them not to ever call me again or I will have to pursue further action.