Is this guy scamming me?
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Anonymous
| Anyone know what wound up happening? I just got a VM from this guy and number too. |
Anonymous
Read the five pages before this - it's clearly a scam. Ignore or tell him you think he's a scammer and you'll report if he contacts you further. |
Anonymous
| I ignored something similar and received a cancellation of debt 1099-C for $1800 that had to report as income on my taxes. So frustrating because it wasn’t my debt but since I ignored it I was worried that the irs would then come after me. |
Anonymous
It is a scam. Real companies would not spend any resource over a measly $2000. My boss retired from Freddie a while ago, they kept paying her for another year, then asked her for the money back. She said they need to refund her the tax she had already paid to IRS and made sure IRS would not come after her. That was the end of it. A coworker was put on the bench without pay at a consulting firm. HR messed up, paid her more than a year, then asked for the money back. I told her to tell HR the same thing my boss said. End of story. |
Anonymous
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This is OP. I’m reviving this thread because there was a collection added to one of my credit reports.
In summary, last year this collection agency contacted me about the debt that my employer overpaid me. I disputed it. I genuinely thought it was a scam or accounting error. They failed to provide paystubs or any valid docs. A year later I see a debt collection by them on their one of my credit reports. What should I do? |
Anonymous
| read up on validating a debt and other processes from removing items from a credit report. If a debt collector has it now, I would be willing to bet it is unlikely they can validate the debt |
Anonymous
You're going to have to do some research here. Research your state attorney general's consumer protection division, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Act, etc. See if there's a Reddit thread. |
Anonymous
| Hi, I got the exact same call today. Did you ever got to know if he was real or a scam? |
Anonymous
| I got an email from the same guy and he has the audacity to call me. |
Anonymous
| Call your state’s Dept of Labor and also state AG. |