kutuzov Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 All right today I got home and got a message from a Debt collector: "This is CBE a Debt Collector, please return our call at xx Thank you" that was the whole message. Anyways I call them back spend an hour over the phone and got to call 3 times, and finally got with someone that got info on the account. First call was just a run around, second call the CSR told me they got no info on any account with that phone number, but third was a charm! Anyways it was for someone else I do not know or have a clue who she is, I did receive a letter that said personal and confidential for I believe for that person about a month ago (it matches the 30 days DV, more or less), in the end the CSR told me they would remove my phone from the list I as hoping it was for me! So they or the mailing services didn't acknowledge the returned letter, I did wrote "Not current Resident return to sender" mark down the name and circled the return address. All right maybe next time ... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellieh98 Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 I think you and @ASTMedic are quite the pair. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 Hey, since all of them got a C&D that would mean 1k for me ... and you know with 4 kids I can use the extra cash, unfortunately it was just a bad skip tracer. I sincerely got no clue why they call my number I got it for 20 years straight, it's a land line and been living in the same address for maybe 3 years now. I already got other Debt collectors call me for another person before. I do need help, I admit it's the first step. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVandelay Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 They are probably just going on where a former resident once lived. I have received calls for different people who may have lived at my address at one point in time. I also have had the same number for over 20 years and have even lived at this address for 10 years. Its just a shot in the dark by the JDBs/CAs. Unfortunately they have very little to lose by doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASTMedic Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 I think you and @ASTMedic are quite the pair. What!!?!?!? Did someone say JDB, LET ME AT'EM!!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 All right, they keep calling Monday 8:30 am they call again. Automated call with a a prerecorded message, for someone I don't know and of course doesn't live in the house, and did not have this phone number for at least the last 20 years... Anyways their message: "Do not record this call, this call is from CBE Group a debt collector, we are looking for Joe Doe, if you are Joe Doe press one now, if you are not Joe Doe hang up, Thank you", every single morning, and after I send back their letter as not current resident, and call them and was on the phone for about an hour and they told me they would remove my number from the list. I guess I will let them keep calling and when I got a bunch of TCPA violation I sue them for harassment and each violation, oh well maybe it's better this was that an easy FDCPA violation. Thoughts ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torden Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 "Do not record this call" ... yeah? and whatcha gonna do about me recording it, anyway? Obviously they are expecting to harass people by NOT having the computer make note of calls where the called party just hangs up, and just doesn't call them any more. If you did that at least once, like the first time, then everything after that is outside of "bona fide error" (more like "bad programming" or "bad policy"). You got their number? Can you share it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 They call from this number, 319 4327619, if you google CBE group you will find their 1800 number. Calling ith an automated robo is a violation on it's own, and keep doing it after I call them it's a willful violation, not that the other ones were not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 @kutuzov - They can't tell you not to record the call. I would just rack them up and take them to court. I think you have plenty of grounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 Yeap I got it under control, a local attorney will take the case, he told me to let them keep calling and in 30 days or so we get together with all the phone log and sue them, I'm easy 2-3k will settle this one, plus attorney fees regardless of the number of calls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 Yeap I got it under control, a local attorney will take the case, he told me to let them keep calling and in 30 days or so we get together with all the phone log and sue them, I'm easy 2-3k will settle this one, plus attorney fees regardless of the number of calls.@kutuzov - Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racecar Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 Shellie can you help any of these folks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 Calling @shellieh98! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellieh98 Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 Lol no but I may need a Valium soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 All right 5th robo call leaving a prerecorded message, 3 before I called them and 2 after, so let me do maths as for now: 3 x 500 = 1500 (could be 3 x 1500 but I do give them the bona fide error) 2 x 1500 = 3000 In 30 days at 3 calls a week $1500 a call, would be $18k plus the $4.5 of right now, a total of $22.5k, settle for 10k plus attorney fees, I think I just found someone that likes me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulieinil Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 you should rename this thread to CHA-CHING!CBE once a bottomfeeder always a bottomfeeder.go get em kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racecar Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 Calling @shellieh98!Kutuzov you tell those junk debt buyers I said to leave you alone or we will flood their mailbox with motions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaspa2000 Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 This is a TCPA violation for sure. My mother in law has been getting debt collector calls for my wife and I and not only is my attorney suing on our behalf for 3rd party disclosure(FDCPA), she is suing on my mother in law's behalf for TCPA violations. You's about to get PAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 At 15 automated calls and counting ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTO429 Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 What is all this talk about settling for a lesser amount. I would not let them off the hook that easily. You forgot to add the statutory damages and the punitive damages for continuing to call after you told them not to. That is willful noncompliance. Punitive damages could be WAAAAAAAAAY more than the calls alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutuzov Posted August 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 I know it could be a lot of cash, I'll let the attorney do it all, whatever he get's me I'll go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillymonkey Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 You can get punitive damages for TCPA?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BV80 Posted September 28, 2013 Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 I don't know that the TCPA mentions an allowance for punitive damages. It does state that if it's proven that the violations were knowing or willful, then the damage award for each violative call ($500) can be tripled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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