Goggins & Lavintman, PA

These people called (my elderly mother in law) to say they were a lawyers & was getting sued on a debt. They had my m-i-law name & SS #, my # & someones elses address. I then calmed her down & said give me the info & i'll call them. Talked to a person named Jill, she claimed we were getting sued over a water bill. I said well I live in this area & we dont have a water bill. ( E/G/W/Sewer are rolled into one) Though our city, after doing my homework found that the debt was an old electric bill from some renters of mine. I said I would take responsibility of the debt but want "proof of debt". Jill went on to tell me that they had just received this debt within the last month from "IC SYSTEMS" & had sent a letter to us & they didn't need to send another. I went on to tell them I/ we had not received anything & where did it go. She went onto me an address I had never heard of. I then gave them my address to please send me the info/account numbers, ect. That I had no issue paying that I just wanted PROOF. She then asked if I was paying the bill & then said again I wanted to have something in writing. She asked for the payment method & I gave her a debt number. That they had to have something on file. She said that the invoice would be there before the payment was to be taken. ($25 weekly) I was not giving more at a time. The week went by & no paper work ie PROOF. They were sure on the phone Monday morning because I didn't get papers in the mail nor did they get the money. I said that i still hadn't received the proof of debt. she moved the payment date to the next Monday & said that they were slow sending out stuff. then later call me back to say she was mis informed & that there would not any paper work until the debt was paid. I said well I'm not going to send four hundred dollars to hope for a PAID IN FULL letter. She then yelled at me (which she is really good at), informed me that they were not & didn't have to send anymore bills & this needed to be taken care of now. I reminded her that I or anyone had never received a letter about this debt from the collections company (IC SYSTEMS) or their law firm. She said well they sent it out & it didn't come back so it was delivered. Thus they didn't have to resend anything. I said let me talk to one of the lawyers, she said that they didn't have time for someone like me. that they have asst for things like that, & that's what she was. Her supervisor wasn't there. I said then have her call me. Thinking it would get better. The next morning I called the IC SYSTEMS thinking i could get something from them, NOPE! After a few the lady said they didnt have the file & that she couldn't help me. To deal with G&L, they must be next door to each other. Later the super called me & basically repeated the same as JILL but RUDER, then went on to say she wasn't not going to ask her lawyer to sit down & waste their time to write me a letter proving who they were & the bill was real. Then said that I was refusing to pay the debt. I said no that I once again I will pay for it but with proof of the debt. She then again was vulger & said so this is refusing to pay? Lord, tell JILL the payment will be there. Help me, seems that PROOF OF DEBT should be a legal thing. This company is going to kill someone with their tactics.
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