Received a call on 08.21.2025 @ 12:51p. The person that called me stated he was calling from Straton & Associates. Claimed that I need to send money in order to start a payment plan by the end of the day. When I stated I don't have that type of money the person insisted that I apply for loans in order to get the money. Claimed I had to go to court on 08.25.2025 but I never received any paper work in the mail referencing to a court date. The person also told me that my assets would be frozen and paycheck would be garnished. Person was admit for me to apply for credit cards and loans just to pay. I called the court house in the state I live as well as well as the state I moved from. No court had any records of me needing to be in court. I am so glad that I did not send anything

August 28, 2025

They called from 866-834-1764. The recording said to call them at the above number, so they can assist me to resolve a legal matter. I received a similar call from the same number and same recoded message. I called the number and they said I owed for a Credit Card. I did have that account, but it was back around the 1980-90. I mentioned that another collection company had owned that acct. And the notices from the previous collection company, said they could not sue, do to the card being Time Barred. And how old the account was. Well this guy didn't want to hear it. I have worked Credit Card collections for 25 years. Not worried about. Just a nusence. Plus our checking accounts are Federally Protected. I just hung up in him.

August 23, 2025

Said to call this number back " to avoid an order against your assets" 😆😆😆

August 21, 2025

more scammers,making america great again

August 20, 2025

FAKE phantom debt collection scam by Puta'ng Ina Ka criminals phoning from the Philippines. This is what the Federal Trade Commission calls a phantom debt collection scam where the scammer pretends to be a debt collector, bank, credit agency, billing department, lawyer, or law enforcement and threatens to sue or arrest you using lies, harassment, and intimidation to collect on fake debts that you do not owe. Debt collection scams are very common because many people carry debts, so it is easy for scammers to phish for gullible victims. And both Filipino and Indian debt collection scams have vastly increased this year to prey upon the larger number of people in debt. The scammer or recording mentions very vague urgency or legal actions, fake "court filing attached to your name", important documents, unpaid financial accounts or account ID codes for your fake debt, and they say numerous attempts to contact you at your home and workplace have been unsuccessful and this is their final attempt, which is all false and intended to make it sound urgent. The synthesized speech may be recorded in Spanish or Chinese to target immigrants. The scammer tries to sound threatening, asks for your Social Security number "for verification purposes", and says you can settle the debt by paying with a credit card, prepaid debit card, eBay/Amazon gift card, or demands that you wire transfer the payment, or asks for your bank account/routing number. Or the scammer pretends to offer a "50% settlement" deal where "you only have to pay half" of your fake debt. About 50% of North America scam calls come from India and 45% come from the Philippines. Foreign scammers run thousands of fraud, extortion, money laundering scams every day such as posing as a fake pharmacy, fake Social Security officer saying your benefits are suspended, IRS officer collecting on fake unpaid back taxes, debt collector threatening you for fake unpaid bills, fake bank/financial/FedEx/UPS/DHL scams, posing as utility/phone/internet companies, pretending to offer fake health insurance, car warranty, student loan forgiveness, credit card and debt consolidation services, posing as Amazon to falsely say an unauthorized purchase was made to your credit card, posing as Microsoft/Dell/HP/Apple to say your account has been hacked or they detected a virus on your computer, fake "we are refunding your money" or "your account has been auto-debited" scams, fake Google/Alexa listing scams, fake solar panel and home purchase offers, fake fundraisers asking for donations, fake phone surveys, and the scammers try to steal your financial and personal data. Indian scammers often rotate through fake tech support, subscription auto-renewal, and fake pharmacy scams on the same day. Filipino scammers run many loan and tax/debt relief, Social Security and Medicare identity theft, auto/home/health/life insurance, and fake charity donation scams. Scammers use disposable VoIP phone numbers (e.g. MagicJack) and telecom software to spoof fake names and numbers on Caller ID. Scammers spoof thousands of fake 8xx toll-free numbers. CID is useless with scam calls unless the scam asks you to phone them back. CID area codes are never the origin of scam calls since scams use spoofed CID numbers from across the US/Canada, numbers belonging to unsuspecting people, invalid area codes, and fake foreign country CID numbers; e.g. fake women crying "help me" emergency scams spoof Mexico and Middle East CID numbers. Scammers often spoof the actual name and number of businesses such as banks to trick you into thinking the call is valid. How can you avoid being scammed by phone calls? NEVER trust any unsolicited caller who: sells something (most unsolicited calls are scams so your odds of saving money are very poor); asks for your Medicare or Social Security number; offers debt relief, loan services, Medicare assistance (people who are old or desperate in debt often fall for scams); offers a free gift/reward; threatens you with arrest/lawsuit; asks you to access a website, download a file, wire transfer money or buy prepaid debit/gift cards; claims your account is frozen or has suspicious activity; says a subscription is refunded or auto-renewed/auto-debited; and all recorded messages. Recordings are far more likely to be malicious scams and not just telemarketer spam. All unsolicited callers with foreign accents, usually Indian or Filipino, are mostly scams. No other countries are infested with phone room sweatshops filled with criminals. Most Filipino scammers speak better English than Indian scammers. Filipinos speak English with a subtle accent that may sound Hispanic. To hide their foreign origin, some India scammers use non-Indians in their phone room. Scams often falsely say that you previously contacted them or visited their website. Indian scammers play fake Amazon recordings. Amazon account updates are emailed, not robo-dialed. Many banks use automated fraud alert calls to confirm a suspicious purchase, but always call the number printed on your credit card to verify if the fraud alert is real or fake. Scammers impersonate phone/cable/internet companies, offering fake discounts or service upgrades. Indians impersonate the IRS and Social Security Administration. The IRS/SSA never make unsolicited calls and never threaten to arrest you; they initiate contact via postal mail. Real lawsuits are not phoned in, especially not using recorded threats lacking details; legal notices are mailed/couriered. The police, FBI, DEA never phone to threaten arrest; they show up in person with a warrant. Scammers try to gain your trust by saying your name when they call; your name, address, birthday are public data. Many scammers, especially female Filipinas, use "romance scam" tactics of sounding really friendly as if they are your best friend or lover to try to gain your affection and trust, hoping that you let your guard down so they can easily steal your identity and money. Scammers often play recordings speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of their overseas phone room. Some speech synthesis sound robotic, but most AI speech sound very realistic. Scammers often use interactive voice response (IVR) AI/NLP software that combines voice recognition with artificial intelligence, speaks English with American voices, and responds based on your replies. IVR calls begin with: "This is fake_name, I am a fake_job_title on a recorded line, can you hear me okay?"; or "Hi, how are you doing today?"; or "Hello? Are you there?"; or "Hi, may I speak to your_name?" IVR quickly asks you a short question to elicit a yes/no reply so it hangs up if it encounters voicemail. One myth is that saying "yes" to IVR lets scammers use your voice sample for other scams. IVR understands basic replies and yes/no answers. To test for IVR, ask "How is the weather there?" since IVR cannot answer complex questions. IVR usually transfers you to the scammer, but some scams entirely use IVR with the robot asking for your credit card or SSN. Phone/email scams share two common traits: the CID name/number and the "From:" header on emails are easily faked, and the intent of scam calls is malicious just as file attachments and website links on scam emails are harmful. Scams snowball for many victims. If your personal/financial data are stolen, either by being scammed, visiting a malicious website, or by a previous data breach of a business server that stores your data, then your data gets sold by scammers on the dark web who will see you as fresh meat and prey on you even more. This is why some receive 40+ scam calls everyday while others get only 0 to 2 calls per week. If you provide your personal data to a phone scammer, lured by fake 80%-discounted drugs or fake loan and debt services, you receive even more phone scams and identity theft can take years to repair. Scammers often shout profanities at you. Google "Hindi swear words" and memorize some favorites, e.g. call him "Randi Ka Beta" (son of whore) or call her "Randi Ka Betty" (daughter of whore). Scammers ignore the National Do-Not-Call Registry. Asking scammers to stop calling is useless. Scam recordings often tell you to press a keypad number to be placed on their Do-Not-Call list or to unsubscribe from their scam texts/emails, but those keypad commands are fake and they say that just to sound legit. Scammers often provide a toll-free callback number to look like a real business, but they regularly shed old callback numbers so you can never reach the scammers once you have realized that you were scammed. Scammers tell you their callback number just to gain your trust long enough to steal your identity and money and then they frequently switch to using new callback numbers. You do these scammers a favor by quickly hanging up. YOU SHOULD SCAMBAIT ALL SCAMMERS - slowly drag scammers along on the phone call, provide fake personal and financial data (16 random digits starting with 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard), ask them to speak louder and repeat what they said to waste their time and energy.

August 20, 2025

The name I got was Melanie Avilisana, which is nothing at all to me. I've had these on and off for about a year. 😡

August 16, 2025

+1 (866) 834-1764 SCAM!!! attempt to assist you with resolving your matter in our office before we approve the status of filing the claim against you out of Tarrant county to avoid the order against your assets please contact our office immediately at 866-834-1764 that number again is 866-834-1764 thank you

August 16, 2025

This number just called my sister looking for me and the message was exactly the same as other comments just changed it to my name and my county lol

August 15, 2025

I called back after I got this message below. I made sure I recorded the phone call and told the guy I was recording it. He told me I took out a car loan in 2019 and that’s what the call was for which I told him was incorrect because I did not take a car loan out in 2019 and he kept arguing back-and-forth with me that I did and I was lying and he’s completely incorrect. He got quite angry when I told him he was being recorded. He also told me I was committing identity theft when I told them that that wasn’t my legal name because that isn’t my legal last name then he hung up on me. He also told me he was calling from a law office however he didn’t say which law office. We're reaching out to Krista Miller this is a final attempt to assist you with resolving your matter in our office before we approve the status of filing the claim against you out of Lehigh county to avoid the order against your assets please contact our office immediately at 866-834-1764 the number again is 866-834-1764 thank you…”

August 15, 2025

Scam

August 15, 2025

Just called me with the same message for my fiancé. Not even for me. His name isn’t even on my phone bill. Saying legal action for our county & to call this number back. No clue who this is.

August 14, 2025

Very threatening but yet vague told me I am being served court papers today.

August 14, 2025

Transcription: “Reaching out to Christina this is a final attempt to assist you with resolving your matter in our office before we approve the status of filing the claim against you out of Galveston County to avoid the order against your assets please contact our office immediately at 866-834-1764 that number again is 866-834-1764 thank you…” Really when will these calls stop? Thank goodness for LifeLock, but isn’t Robokiller supposed to block these type of spam calls

August 14, 2025

This number called and mentioned some claim against me. When are the laws going to change, these people have my name and number, but everything about them stay's anonymous. WTF. i called back and told them with a low life loser they are.

August 14, 2025

Transcription: We're reaching out to junior Aiah this is a final attempt to assist you with resolving your matter in our office before we approve the status of filing the claim against you out of Denton county to avoid the order against your assets please contact our office immediately at 866-834-1764 that number again is 866-834-1764 thank you

August 13, 2025

Transcription: We're reaching out to [redacted] this is a final attempt to assist you with resolving your matter in our office before we approve the status of filing the claim against you out of Orange County to avoid the order against your assets please contact our office immediately at 866-834-1764 that number again is 866-834-1764 thank you

August 13, 2025

Said a law suit was being filed out of State of Texas?

August 12, 2025

Same scammers who called me from another number yesterday. Claimed they were trying to assist [someone else's name] in resolving a matter in their office before filing a claim against me.

August 12, 2025