Independent Processor representing "ADR Firm"

Sounds like a scam. Processor servers can be independant but they dont call you to you know they are coming to serve you.

The same thing just happened to me at work. That pisses me off. There is another website reporting this sort of thing: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-528-5110 - actually there are several.

The Georgia-based ADR Firm LLC has nothing to do with whichever company is contacting individuals about debts or claims. The ADR Firm LLC is not a debt collection agency, and has not entered into any agreements to serve in that capacity for any other group or entity.

I just received the same kind of call at my work. Looked up "ADR" and it brought me here??? Anyone know what it is all about????

it is a scam they left a message at my house supposedly looking for contact info on someone with the same last name as me, lots of noise in back ground of where he was calling from, i google searched the guy "mike gardners" name the case number nothing comes up.. it is total bs do not call them back if it was legit they would not tell you they would just show up and serve you or at least you would get some kind of offcial certified letter about what is going on. im thinking about forwarding the message to the local news investigator so no one gets duped by this

I just got the same kind of message. It was exactly as thenameisshauna described: someone saying I needed to call them back about a numbered "claim and charge" with an "ADR firm," Same approach: they'd gotten a fax concerning me and needed to serve me papers. I suspected a scam and it looks like I'm right.

I received the same message tonight. Person they were looking for had my former last name & different first name. The guy leaving the message sounded rough. I assume it is a scam since I don't have debt collectors calling me. I will not be giving them any personal info about me. I'm sure they are phishing for info from people & unfortunately there will be some people who will give out all kinds of info to this.

I just got the same message! When I asked them to fax me something on letterhead stating who they were and what they were collecting for he said "good luck in court" and hung up.

877 522 7563

John Parker blanket calling for whoever he is trying to serve notice on.

# goes back to a company called Global. Automated answer, just hit 0 as you are never given an extension to call.

They called last night and left a VM for someone else, I returned the call and left a VM, they evidently blanket called everyone with the same last name and left the same VM.

They really didnt like my notifying them of the violations to the FCRA in the VM they left, nor the fact that they can not legally state that they notified the person by leaving a blanket VM in the hope that they got the right number.

My husband got the same call , except someone named Bernard Watson, called and said this is your last chance before we serve you at work and home, I have never heard of a processor calling to tell you they were serving you? Don't they just serve you? They also called a friend of ours and told her to tell my husband that this was it. Judging from what everyone is saying this is a BIG SCAM, so he won't be giving them any information

A complaint has to be filed in district court and then the Sheriff or court server gets the notice to serve a summons. Even the plaintiff does not know the exact time of service. Once they file they have paid a fee. If they are saying this is your last chance it means that they have not yet paid the filing fee or the server is on his way and there is no way they can stop it. Either way I would say it is an illegal scare tactic and an attorney should be retatined to file a complaint for violation of the FDCPA for threatening a suit when none is to be filed.

I live in az and the same thing happened to me. erik clarck, very aggressive glad i checked this out before returning the call.

Same thing happened to me. Just a scam. Totally ignore them. Thanks to all the previous posts.

Just got this exact same message on my VM for my Ex! It was a Ruth Anderson case#111274! Total scam! Do not give out your information and if they continue to call report them!

I just received this phone call today, it came up as unknown on my cell phone i ignored it, and they called back 1 minute later, so i answered. it was a man named Thomas Hayden. he said that he had important papers for me that were about a legal matter that he wasnt even allowed to open. he gave me a case number and 866-806-8453 to call and give the case number. I am a debt collector so i asked why he would be calling doing the dirty work for another company, he said he was independant. i also asked what his company name was since someone had to hire him. he wouldnt tell me.. so i google searched the number saw alot of fraud things come up about it. then i called the number. a woman named april answered i gave her the case number and she told me i owed money to check n go ( i dont) and that if i didnt pay with her i was going to be taken to court for bad checks. I asked her right away why the phone number is reported as a phone scam number.. she said let me transfer you to my manager... i hung up. I then called MY local check n go and had them look for an account with my name on it.. sure enought nothing.. then i asked if they use a 3rd party collection agency called nationwide, she searched for me and told me they do not use that company. i told her what had happened.. she told me not to pay them.. so i called "nationwide" back and told them i knew they were phony and that i was going to my police dept.. so april again transfered me to a manager named adriane, he wouldnt give me a number or anything else just his first name.. he read my entire ssn number to me.. i told him i didnt know how the fuck he got it but it was borderline id theft and when i said that he said "good luck in court" and hung up. so i went up to my local police department right away because i had typed the entire conversations out from start to finish ( this is my job its what im good at) i gave the officer the phone number and case number, he called them.. then came back and told me it is a legit company and that he cant help me pay my debt.. he wouldnt even listen to me when i was trying to tell him how i know its a scam.. he had me leave.. FUCK THEM.. and FUCK APRIL AND ADRIANE AND THOMAS.. i dont have time for this shit.. on top of this i have been getting phone calls from IRAN and california as well all right after another ever since yesterday..the thing the officer doesnt realize is that if they are in fact a debt collection agency, by not providing their addr and the company name and calling back to back they are in violation of the FDCPA and that lovies is a federal offense.. if it keeps happening i will report it to the FBI only because i dont have an addr for them to do a BBB complaint.. UGH .. FML YAY

Same exact scenario. our guy was chris jackson - mr aggressive and self certain about everything. first a 'law firm' called looking for me, then wonderboy here calls a couple of times right in a row demanding i contact him tonight or tomorrow he'd be in court and then i'd be in court. i call back and ask who he works for, he says he's private. he says he has papers to serve me with but that they are sealed and he can't open them b/c he doesn't have my ssn. so he has no idea what it is about, just that he was hired to contact me. he wants to verify my address to serve me - since i've been served before i knew this was bogus, and besides why would you want to help someone who is trying to find you to serve you papers?? he then says he's just trying to verify that i am the correct stephen l smith. I tell him i'm not who he's looking for, and he says that i have to be b/c this is the phone number he was given for stephen l smith. i ask him what he does, and he says he's a private investigator. i tell him that he's not very good at his job b/c he's got the wrong person. this makes him more aggressive. one other thing - he leaves an address on my vm that i was supposed to have lived at in the past - 208 Westside blvd roanoke virginia. i never lived there. but i think he was trying to get me to correct him and say something like: "no not 208 westside, i used to live at 666 eastcorner in roanoke virginia" and then he'd have gotten what he was looking for - i'm sure that with my address he'd have what he needed to steal my identity. I have checked with my attorney about this and everyone is right - the FDCPA and the FCRA violations are blatant. this is now the third scam like this i have seen - the formula is very similar - a real company and a real law firm name that are in the business in some form but have no idea they are being falsely represented and used as fronts for an international scam that gets money and identities from americans. the legit company always seems to be a small local place that does exist - as if they expect you to check on it. in the other one they are trying to get you to wire money, and they even have places to click on the legit company's website that says they provide some subset of services for that company. you click their box it and it goes to their evil little temporary site. when the gig is up they erase their stuff from the website of both the law firm and the legit company before anyone has time to go back and print off copies to prove they were doing it in the first place. the whole thing is too much to write but its the same thing. nice world we live in nowadays, isn't it. everytime its iran or iraq or some similar place.

Thanks to all of you ! I just got an aggressive call saying there was a claim against me and a case against me . They gave a case number and ordered me to call and confirm my address home and work. I had a similar scam pulled on me where they harassed my employer.
This time I checked the web first.
Thanks for the tips !

Wow!! I just received several back to back calls as well. One from ADR firm and another from Erie Mitigation group. They even contacted my coworker. The thing is,t hey've left messages as if it were a threat. If you're going to serve me, serve me! Don't call threatening me on my job or anywhere else.

So Is this a legit agency or not? Why did the cop say it is? I am confused and very nervous I could go to court. Should I just not answer the phone?

what cop said it ws legit?i ask because it is not legit at all.in fact file a police report with your local police.they will confirm how so not legit this is.then ignore them.

Some other post said they had a local cop look into it and said it was legal.

well that is a shill as again nothing about this ADR is legit,or legal.alot of people who want spread misinformation come on all the time.they are called shills.they state garbage that basically is meant to give an impression of legitimacy when the post are so transparent it's not funny.so again not legit,or legal and they should be reported.

so what can we do to stop them from calling my employer? I was out sick and they asked for my supervisor and told her i was being served at work and she had to release me so she freaked and called me. Luckily this isn't the first time I have received a threat so I wasn't scared by it. However, I don't want someone at my place of employment to take it seriously and risk my job. My boss does know what is going on and I told the receptionist to forward the call to me because any business related call knows who my boss is and would call her directly if I did something wrong. They can call my cell all they want......I can ignore that. I just want them to stop calling my job and I don't have a fax # to send a cease of communitcation letter. When I google ADR Firm a legit company does come up that i don't believe to be related to these people who are claiming to be ADR Firm. I understand I am responsible for my debts before some jerk decides to give his 2 cents on here "that we are a bunch of losers who need to pay our debts" to people who come here for help, I have read some really rude comments from people that make me wonder why they are on here...anyhow, for those of you experiencing the threatening calls, what can we do to stop it? This is the second company who has tried to threaten me and that was months ago and no summons was ever received.

I just received the same message from Lisa Roberts with a claim number. Very aggressive message needing my home and work address. I will not be calling her back. The number she left for me is 877-834-3244, when I called it also answered as Nationwide, automated system.

I just received the same call. Anyone know where they get our names and personal information from?? Kinda creepy

I got this alarming call at work from a guy named John Parker that shot my blood pressure through the roof. He told the receptionist it was a "confidential important legal matter", then told me he was an independent process server that would be coming to my home or workplace to serve papers on "charges and a claim." Funny....he had no more information than that. No company name of who was saying they had a claim, what it was about or who he represented. I also never heard of a process server that called you to warn you they were coming to serve you. He told me to call this number 877-834-3244 and gave me a claim number. He said the number belonged to "ADR Firm" which also meant nothing to me. I called it to find out...ooopps...wrong Kathie L....which was a relief, but it still bugged me enough to do a little research. Sounds like a new and underhanded way to do collections or scam people. John Parker is probably every male's name that makes these calls.

So where can I send a ceast and desist letter. Does anyone know there address? They are calling my job and this has to stop!

I need ADR"s address to send a cease and desist letter. Can someone please help me? They are calling constantly and even my job.

[COLOR=black]I have had the same thing happen to me, Only the name is Angela Brown she has been calling my daughters phone continually, giving her personal information about me, scaring her with threats of her mother being sued, she leaves the same message; this is the last chance to settle before service of papers, I thought that it was against federal regulations to give out personal information to a third party, they can only leave the company name and phone number that???s it, they can not even tell them that they are a debt collection agency. I don't know that it is a scam but I do think they are hired by a payday loan company that chooses to ignore the law. It is harassment and intimidation and against the law. Is anyone out there in the government listening or do they even care. Collection agencies are allowed to do and say anything they want without consequence. [/COLOR]

the http://www.theadrfirm.com site has a note saying they have nothing to do with them. this is the statement. Please note that The ADR Firm LLC is not affiliated with the ADR Firm debt collection agency

I just got the same series of calls from an unknown number. I have had a collection in the past and there was a judgement filed against me. I was served and I was not warned....this was like 10 years ago. The judgement was paid. I finally picked up and he told me the same thing about being served. I told him if he called me again I would make sure to attempt to contact the police. Since it was an unknown number I had not much to go off of....ugh....

Its a mediation firm...and I had a lawyer look it over legit.

no humanoid.back to the phones loser as no lawyer unless they are playing one for your bottomfeeder would say that.again back to the phones idiot.

For those who think its a scam. It's not. Its legit. I had a lawyer look into it and its a mediation firm and they do have a legal dept, and they do have private process servers. No they dont have to call before they serve but, from what I was told they go out of the way and try to get their cases resolved voluntarily vs. going to court for whatever. They dont have to call and verify anything because they know its you but they do go out of the way to contact before serving. I have seen people go to jail for not paying a bill, not because they didnt pay but because they were being sued by the creditor. For all those who didnt call the number.. That just shows how responisible you are.

I removed some of your post, name calling it isn't necessary to get your point across.

For future reference, go back to school and learn how to spell, people who come to this forum making statements with poor grammar and spelling decreases the credibility of their posts.

couldn't have said it better shazzers.these humanoid shills think they can pass off their lies like they are on the phone.just shows how stupid they actually are.btw pretending to be a lawyer like your friend is illegal too,and mediation firms like process servers do not call ahead.go ahead respond.i'm on pins and needles.

I have gotten these same calls as well, only my caller is "David Miller". He continuously calls my work. I was out sick last week and he spoke to my boss. She did give him the address, knowing my stance on the matter - If you have papers to serve me then come serve me. At least then I would have documentation and PROOF that this company is legitimate (which I firmly believe they are NOT). That same day he called my cell phone. I was sick, and a little out of it so I answered the "unavailable" call and he told me he had papers to serve me and needed to confimr my address. I told him a real process server would have already found my address by now (I have bought a vehicle and other items on credit using this address, so I am sure it is on my credit report). He responded by saying he had already spoken to my boss and gotten my work address from her. I then replied by saying, "OK, I will be there Monday after 9AM. Should I expect you then?" He hung up. He then tried calling me back about 30 seconds later. As I mentioned, I was sick, and now annoyed. My fiance answered the call, telling him not to call my cell phone anymore. The guy huing up on my fiance and then called back again...Let's just say he went the other way with the conversation and Mr. Miller did not call my cell for the rest of the weekend. Sadly, the calls started again at my work on MOnday (yesterday) and again today. He also left me a V/M on my cell stating this was my "last chance" (didn't he say that last time?) and that his next contact would be to serve me.

The thing is, I know I am already a victim of ID theft and have been for over 10 years...Someone is even working under my social. If this is a valid, legitimate debt they are saying I owe, I am more than happy to make arrangements to pay. the problem is, even when asked they refuse to tell me that it is even an effort to collect a debt, let alone who it is for. If this company is legit (doubtful), then I invite them to please...come serve me with these mythical papers you keep speaking of. Then we will know the truth. Until then STOP CALLING MY JOB!

It's a collection tactic. An "official" process server would not contact you before he serves you and if he has a phone number for work and home then he has your home address and does not need to confirm an address anyway.

I had the same thing happen to me just yesterday morning from Ruth Anderson,it sounded like she was reading off of a script, she even had the nerve to call my in-laws and left a message there.I wrote a bad check to pizza hut several years ago and when I dildn't make it good they didn't give me any warning that they were going to take me to court.Ruth told me yesterday that I had been served for litigation charges against me and today was my final warning to call her back. Well if she has charges being brought against, well then bring it on I will see you in court if you know where I live.SEE YA

My wife got a call from these guys and freaked out... here is the simple matter of the fact....
head to http://www.courts.state.va.us/caseinfo/home.html this is the VA public state sight to see in (VIRGINIA) if you have any civil/criminal papers. You can also go to sights like www.freecreditreport.com
(i'm sure other states have sights like the courts sight) and see if any one has filed against you, its all public record.

Find your states court sights web sight, or go down to your local Police station and tell them you think you have legal papers filed against you, and that will tell you right there. They pretty much can check via your SSN and find out nationwide.

basically these guys are a scam, don't listen to them, don't even talk to them. hell I could look your phone number up www.whitepages.com and make up some b.s. about legal papers and go from there.

good luck to you all!

Just got a call from my mother in law stating some guy called her asking if she knew me and wanted my address. Supposedly she didn't tell him anything (I hope that's true!) and then I checked MY voicemails and sure enough..some jerk with a big ego leaving the same message about getting a fax and this is my last chance to take care of this matter before I get served? Whatever...serve me then to show your legit...yeah...that's what I thought! Idiot..if any of that S#!T were true they would already have all of the information they needed without ever needing to make a phone call.

Just got a message myself, saying i better call like u say very aggressive. Sounds like a scam, and thanks everying for there input.

Yea this same thing happen to me last week and it scared me, but I didn't answer the phone, they left two nasty voice mails, so I looked up the name of this so called firm and found this website. I'm soooo glad that I looked this up before I call back to see what it was actually about

Wow!! There is no telling how many people are being harassed by these idiots! Same here… I got my calls on Tuesday. First call was to my cell....from a private number. "This is Arthur Stevens. I'm with a private locating firm regarding case #blablah. I've been ordered to summons you regarding a fraudulent check and suspicious activities to your checking account either on your home or work number. This is your last chance. You need to contact 888-2618309 listed as ADR/EDR firm (not sure what he said). This is your last chance. Mrs. ____ you have been notified." and hung up. Mind you, this sounds like i just got summoned over the phone. I was like WTH!! He didn't even identify the name of his company! Second call was to my job. This is where he messed up. Left the same voicemail but this time he either forgot to block the call, or my job rejects blocked calls. The number he called me from was 716-748-6057 in (NY). Again this is the person who summoned me. He said his name Arthur Stevens again. I politely replied with a blocked call later in the evening. No answer, but a voicemail to Richard Green with TCG & Associates. I did ALOT of investigating the next day for TCG (Transit Capitol Group & Associates) and ADR/EDR. TCG is a collections agency and has a website with no address or phone number. Only contact info is an email address. Oh, but they let you know they are hiring more scumbags. ADR firm is an attorney's office/debt collection agency. I called the number I was given for ADR firm and this 888 number was for TCG & Associates! This guy just pretended to work for a lawyer’s office and used ADR Firm to intimidate me?!? So I talk to a lady at TCG and she says you owe blahblah on a pay day loan. Do you have a credit card to pay? I'm going to need a lot more info on you before I pop out the plastic sweetie. I asked her name, the company name, location, mailing address, etc,. She said the company was TCG and gave me a PO Box # in NY. I said "so this is Transit Capitol Group & Associates". She said no it's TCG. Oh my goodness!!! Then she put me on hold for like 10 minutes because she was getting her supervisor because I was asking too many questions! Then she hung up on me. I called back and guess who answered????? RICHARD GREEN!!! The man you notified me about a summons!! So the collector called me the day before with this BS pretending to be Arthur Stevens!! I asked him for validation of debt and he refused!! Kept asking over and over if I was recording him and telling me it was illegal to do so. I wasn't recording but had intentions to making him believe I was. He started stuttering when I told him knew he was the one who called about a summons and he denied it. I told him ” that's where you screwed up dumb ass cause I have a recorded voicemail that leads back to your extension”! I asked him to provide me with competent evidence that I have any legal obligation to his agency and he refused! I was too through!! Then he said he didn't have my address!! All I said was ok... as of today I have requested validation of debt which you are refusing to do. Richard Green with TCG & Associates, you have been notified! CLICK!! I am more than willing to pay any debt owed. I work for a (legit) collections agency who provide information required to collect debts. That’s all I was asking for but this just doesn’t seem right. I’m seriously thinking about hiring an attorney because these people are obviously in violation of the FDCPA!

I received a message of this sort on 5/19/2011. Someone name Roxanne stating that papers have been faxed to her today about charges filed against me in the state. This person states that I only have one chance to contact them with my home address or place of employment. I knew something was not right. Yes I have debt but I am working on payment plans with all except one. I became very nervous after receiving the call, i'm happy I have not contacted them and I never will.

This is my 2nd bully call for someone with the same name as me and they want to "verify" my information (which i do not). This guy today, "Steven Tyler or Taylor" (name sound familiar - should - google it), called my work, never ask my name... just began spilling the "I'm an independent processor & have 48-72 hours, but you can call this number "866-539-8896" and put a stop to it, the company is FAS and you the file# is..." i interrupted and asked him to identify himself and the before mentioned name is what he gave me. i then asked him his contact information and he states to me (again) "i'm an independent processor and do not have a number or office for you to contact me at" i simply hung up on him.

my aunt received a call from bernard watson and told me i had a bad debt. and to call 18772273972, then the next day i received another call on my cell phone no name this time i could clearly tell it was the same guy and he read basically the same message, the difference this time was it was a new number to get in touch with 18665764080. seems strange, we have all received different numbers from different people but saying the same message. hmmmmmmmm

Received a call from a very aggressive process server/investigator regarding a legal matter. Said I was being sued and would have to appear in court. His name was Terry Burke and his phone number is 951-643-8386. When you call his number back it says Department of Investigations. He stated he needed to speak with me or my manger. Said he needed to serve me with papers and wanted to speak with my manager to find out proper protocol for serving papers at work. When he called back he gave me a case number and a phone number for an ADR Firm. I called the ADR firm number 866-576-4080 or 877-528-5100 and found out this company is Nationwide ADR Firm. They stated that they are a mediation company for a payday loan company. Said that I defaulted on a payday loan and that I had one opportunity to resolve this issue or I would be served with papers and taken to court.

I got a call today from guy Terry, this frap was scary at first because of mainly his scare tactics but once I took a deep breath and really listened to how he chose his words like ( charges filed, court) I almost choked from laughing so hard and wad pissed because this kid honestly does not understand who he is dealing with. He wanted (demanded) me verify my address Ummm, I amm sorry... you call me asking to verify my address I used 3 years ago so you serve me papers, being very aggressive and intimidating... asking am I home, so he can serve me and giving me an 800 number to call and according to you this would be to resolve the issue.
After everything was said and done I Hung up but this stupid lil guy had the nerve to call back and told me he wasnt finished talking. I thought he was trying to hard and hung up. Hope he finds somebody to serve those papers too. i realized after the 1st time i hung up on him this was about a Pay day loan... lol this dude didnt even give the standard "debt collection discloure statement...this is an attempt to collect a debt"

So these people called my friend yesterday and said the same thing. That they wanted to verify my address and tell me that they have sealed documents that they are going to serve me if I don't take this last chance to clear this up. It worried me at first because I had no idea what this was concerning. If they are going to serve me might as well do it... Hope that all in all they are not phishing for info to ruin my credit even more than it already is from my divorce.