This seems a cross state scam. I received a mail from the same company just now and claimed I owe a book membership club which I neved had. The said book membership was started in early 2003 before I migrated to the U.S. It was sent to an old address in California and was forwarded to my new address in another state.
It was very clear of its threats that If I do not pay for said membership that they will have this in my credit report!
It is a small amount but it makes me fuming mad that a company, whose claim of debt is not true, is threatening to destroy my credit report that I am working hard to raise. Since there is not basis of said debt, isn't this a scam?
Since it has cross states, isn't this under FBI's organized crime investigation arm?
I was a victim of ID theft a couple of years ago and I know going to the local police will not work. These firms, will ask for small amounts like a hundred or so, so as not to warrant the attention or time of law enforcement agencies. But small amounts in thousands of cases make a tidy sum to these people.
I have never taken any membership for any book club, much more when I still lived overseas and had no $ account, etc.
I will do the fraud alert as suggested here but I believe there ought to be more that can be done for a company like this.
If you google about this company, there are other reports of being scammed by this company way back in 2005.
Small amounts, like phishing in the Internet, makes the organized criminals think that the police or people will not make a big deal out of this.
Are we just going to sit here and watch this company harrass and scam other people?
What are the other options of harrassed consumers from seedy companies like this?