Complaint Review: NCRS-Collection Recovery - SEF Judith Nye - Concord North Carolina

What a joke... I received the same exact letter described above. I stopped by my local police department and reported it. They told me they had a couple other reports of the same letter and have forwarded the report to the FBI. They advised me to simply ignore it. I decided to contact Concord, NC police department for the hell of it. They didn't give me any input on any investigation or report but simply told me right off the bat to just ignore it as well. Looks like I'll never get that half hour of my life back. Thanks Judith, you are scum.

Hello everyone, I received the same exact letter on 2/28/09. We found this letter to be suspicious because it didn't come in my legal name - it was addressed to my middle name. So right off the bat we felt something was off. My husband takes care of the financial dealings of the house so he immediately called to find out what this matter was about. He got an answering system and left a message that he would like to know what this was about and proceeded to leave his contact information. He got a return call Sunday morning (which I found sort of suspicious) in which she left a message on his voicemail leaving no kind of information, just her name and cell phone number. Again, he returned her call and again no answer and left another message. That is when my husband decided to do a search on the net and found the Rip-Off Reports. He then proceeded to call the sheriff and ask them what to do about this matter. They sent a deputy out to take note of the letter and get her contact information. He stated to us that this looked to be very shady and not to send any money. He called Judith Nye at both numbers that we had for her and left a message to stop harassing us. He also contacted the N.C. police department to see if they had heard anything or knew of anything which came back negative. The deputy was supposed to call the post office today to see if the box is legit. After he left my husband's phone rang and I recognized the number on it and answered it. Finally a person (and not a very happy one either). First of all she called me by the wrong name - so Katherine if you are reading this - she is trying to contact you - LOL. Anyways, when I corrected her she got very short tempered with me and nasty. I then proceeded to tell her that the sheriff was just here and took her information and will be contacting her soon to which she replies "isn't that just special." So she then asks for all of the deputy's information. I gave her his name and the department that he is from and she demanded his number to which I replied "If you want it - you will have to look it up yourself but he will be contacting you." I am still not sure what any of this is about, but I too fell prey to the "magazine scam" from the early 2000's. To which I stopped paying on because I had never received one flippin' magazine. Fortunately I had used my credit card to pay for it and they went after the company and got most of it back. Good luck all!

I wrote this and as a new Ripoff Report but it wasn't connected to this page so here it is: The same thing happened to me. Actually my parents received the letter at their house, which I no longer live at on the 26th of Feb. It stated the exact information as yours. My mom noticed it was stranged and mentioned it was most likely a scam. I did not see the letter but she said it came in a plain envelope with no letter head and some parts hand written. Exactly as Nicole received it. So I called the number last night and got a voice mail with no name. It said, 'please leave your name and number and someone from customer service or accounting will get back to you.' I got a hold of this woman on friday morning and she state the exact same thing. I heard her wrestling around with papers in the background and talking to someone. It sounded very shady. I asked her if I could have the number of the company and she said there is no number to reach them. Once again I became very suspicious. She was extremely nice to me on the phone and I kept telling her I don't believe this. She explained that it happend sometime in early 2002. I said this is the first time I have ever received a notice. She said the company by law didn't have to find me and went into some attorney general crap. She said I owed the exact amount of $189.99 by March 1, 2009. After a while of bullshitting she said she would mail me out a copy of the invoice to take a look at and I can pay it in the middle of March. That seemed more shady to me. She also told me that they will be taking it to court at the end of March in California or some other state. She said I wouldn't have to attend but will receive the decision by mail. It will cost me about $3,000. I find this to be extremely shady and was wondering what everyone else who has received this is planning on doing? Let me know.

I wrote this and as a new Ripoff Report but it wasn't connected to this page so here it is: The same thing happened to me. Actually my parents received the letter at their house, which I no longer live at on the 26th of Feb. It stated the exact information as yours. My mom noticed it was stranged and mentioned it was most likely a scam. I did not see the letter but she said it came in a plain envelope with no letter head and some parts hand written. Exactly as Nicole received it. So I called the number last night and got a voice mail with no name. It said, 'please leave your name and number and someone from customer service or accounting will get back to you.' I got a hold of this woman on friday morning and she state the exact same thing. I heard her wrestling around with papers in the background and talking to someone. It sounded very shady. I asked her if I could have the number of the company and she said there is no number to reach them. Once again I became very suspicious. She was extremely nice to me on the phone and I kept telling her I don't believe this. She explained that it happend sometime in early 2002. I said this is the first time I have ever received a notice. She said the company by law didn't have to find me and went into some attorney general bullshit. She said I owed the exact amount of $189.89 by March 1, 2009. After a while of bullshitting she said she would mail me out a copy of the invoice to take a look at and I can pay it in the middle of March. That seemed more shady to me. She also told me that they will be taking it to court at the end of March in California or some other state. She said I wouldn't have to attend but will receive the decision by mail. It will cost me about $3,000. I find this to be extremely shady and was wondering what everyone else who has received this is planning on doing? Let me know.

I received the same letter, from the same agency and address, along with the name Judith Nye and telephone number 704-464-6550 and "PAY or CALL" handwritten in pen, along with "ASAP" handwritten in green magic marker. There are some slight differences to my letter, however. I am asked to pay $289.99 instead of $189.99. Also, the addressed envelope in which I am supposed to send my payment is addressed to a P.O. Box, computer-printed, not handwritten. One thing I noticed which has convinced me this is a scam is that the return address on the envelope I received is for a P.O. Box. The envelope I am supposed to mail my payment to is addressed to yet a different P.O. Box, and the address for the company at the top of the letter is a street address. Three different addresses is not a good sign. I haven't called the phone number yet, and I'm rather uncertain what I should do after reading this report. It seems we aren't alone with this scam, so hopefully more will come forward.