- Report: #1203011
Complaint Review: Pioneer Credit Recovery - Nationwide
Reported By:
S. Green -
Spring Lake, North Carolina,
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Pioneer Credit Recovery
Nationwide, USA
Phone:
8556346232
Web:
www.pioneercourtpay.com
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Pioneer Credit Recovery PHONY COLLECTION NOTICE FOR PHONY SPEEDING VIOLATION Lake City Florida
I received two letters today from a company I'd never heard of for a speeding violation I know I never was ticketed for in a town I've never been to. The company is Pioneer Credit Recovery and they want me to pay $175.01 for speeding in Hancock County, Mississippi. As I'm not prone to speeding and I know I've never been stopped in Mississippi, much less Hancock County, I was suspicious of the letters. Both letters claim that I've disregarded all other corespondance from their company and this is my final notice.
Rather than throw the notices in the garbage can, I chose to call the customer support number. The person on the other end of the line asked for my name, which I gave to her, but then she asked for my date of birth. When I refused to give my date of birth until I could verify the company's validity, the operator quickly huing up the phone on me. I called again but this time, I gave a bogus date of birth. The operator corrected me with my actual date of birth! When I mentioned to her that I had just checked her company out online and all I was able to find for Pioneer Credit Recovery was scam stories, SHE hung up on me. At no time did I lose my composure or become difficult.
This is a new technique to me but one you should be aware of. If you know you're paying all of your fines and you're suspicious by nature, make sure you vet anything you receive in the mail that asks for your money. I have no doubt these jokers are up to no good.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
S. Green
Spring Lake,North Carolina,
RETRACTION--PIONEER NOT A SCAM
#2Author of original report
Fri, January 23, 2015
Long story short, I took the last guy's advice and called the courthouse in Mississippi. The attendant's first question was "Did you receive a notice from Pioneer? ". The lady said they get quite a few calls like mine because the notification letters don't carry any state letterhead like most others would be and people think they're being scammed. The lady even sent ne a copy of the original ticket via email.
So, Mississippi has the internet now and they're learning how to use it. My ticket was THIRTEEN YEARS OLD! Mississippi is finally going to get paid for all of those tickets we've forgotten about.
Robert
Irvine,California,
You are right...but
#3Consumer Comment
Wed, January 21, 2015
You are right in what you stated in your last paragraph that you have to vet out everything and make sure it is legitimate. However, the rest you need to be very careful.
For one, this is a valid Collection Agency. Yes, they do a job that most people hate so you will of course get a lot of negatives about them. I am not here to say one way or the other if those other claims are true or not as that is not really the point here.
But what you are basically doing is posting on a public forum that they just randomly picked your name and decided to run a scam with no proof of that. They got your information from somewhere. So if they did in fact get your name from the County, you may have bigger issues going on. Where if you ignore it and figure they are a scam. You may wake up one morning with your license suspended.
So the first thing you need to do is contact the County directly. They "should" have a record of this "ticket" you received. If in fact it is a valid ticket with your information...you probably have some serious issues with Identity Theft. Or it could be something as simple as they transposed a number and it isn't yours. But if you let it go and get it figured out...they are going to treat it like it is you.
The point is just don't automatically dismiss things like this, because it may not be what you think.
