I just came about two left clicks away from being scammed so I am throwing this out there for anyone else who may have this happen:
A week ago a received a letter from a company called Alliance One. An " accounts receivables" management company, basically a creditor. The letter stated that a ticket I had received over a year ago in LI was due and that I had to pay immediately or it would be placed on my credit report.
Being that it was a year ago, I wasn’t 100% sure I paid it or not, but either way I was surprised because #1, I always pay my bills on time, and #2, I could swear I paid the ticket.
So they gave me a website to go to with an account number and password, which I logged into. I was about to make a CC payment for the amount due when my judgement got the better of me. I was literally ready to hit Submit.
So I waited and called Nassau County. Sure as shit I paid that ticket over a year ago. So I did some research and apparently this is a scam that they run. They could have had my credit card info and personal info if I had followed through with the payment.
I am making reports to the correct agencies about this and hopefully no one here falls for it. It looks VERY legit.
good catch man. instincts kick ass dont they. the human brain retains soooo much information its not even funny. Sometimes thing like this trigger it enough to make you say “wait a minute”. good to see you rolled with it and got to the bottom of it.
Yea, the letter itself threw a few red flags for me. One being there were two major grammatical errors and there were also two sentences that didn’t make any sense at all, not to my case, they just didn’t make sense.
I figured if this was 100% legit, everything in the letter would be in order.
My question now is, how did they get the information that I got that ticket? Are traffic tickets a matter of public record?
Im aware of this, but I have seen many sites somewhat like this have a valid SSH cert up until you get to a point where you submit your data and the cert dissapears.
Regardless, they seem to be extremely good at scamming people, especially going as far as sending a piece of mail
All collection agencies are scumbags, they buy garbage debt that is already paid or written off and try to collect on it. They make a TON of money doing it because people don’t know any better. Good job on taking a step back before hitting submit.
I had the same place send a letter to me over a hospital bill for albany med from 2007. Funny thing was that I haven’t been to albany med since 2006. Got in an argument with the guy over the phone ( called 3 times. Same guy answered all 3 times) told the guy to fuck off. Called albany meds records department. Comfirmed that I was right. Had albany med call him. Then I called him back to rip him another new asshole. I think he expected me to just pay the bill. Fuckin scammers.