National information Center Imposter

Victim Location 68701

Type of a scam Debt Collections

I received 2 voicemails from 206/823-3156 advising me that I had a complaint against me /charges against me and would pursue me at my place of residence and work. No company name given. The first time I called back I did not get a person, just 5 minutes of hold music. The 2nd time I called (and these events are not necessarily in order, but my account of the call I just had) the man I spoke with had difficulty in providing a business name (first it was "Processing Division"; then it was "In House Law Firm", then it was "NIC", then it was National Information Center…when I Googled the business name and got a federal agency site, I asked him if he was a federal agency and he hesitated and then said "yes". He was inpatient with all my questions and said that he is not a collection agency, that he did not have to send me any verification and could only give me the original holding name and last 4 digits of the account but would not mail it to me. He did offer a settlement of $650 with a paid in full letter and his name and then again said he is not a collection agency, just an opportunity to settle and if I settled then he would release the order in litigation. When I asked him what county he had on file, he had to put me on hold and then came back with my county and car loan information. He noted an attempt to contact me in May 2017 by Recovery Services; which I verified and told him that I had sent them paid in full documentation via email. He never provided me any means to send that letter – he did get very frustrated with my questions to validate the legitimacy of the call (which he repeated several times was recorded to note that I had been contacted, spoken to and provided an opportunity to settle); and he ended the call by saying he was not going to argue with me (about the Google search of the number – which was not favorable, lists of "scam warning" or the NIC name he gave me). I have not received any mail or any other notification. Again, he did not intend to send me any documentation of the account, he said that was not part of their job.

Barry or Eric Williams did call me back and leave a voicemail (caller ID came back unknown) with a lengthy voicemail saying that he found the proper address and then he again noted the last four digits of my SSN, email address and my vehicles and noted 2 references of people that I would not have listed as references (one was a person I don’t even know). He noted that I have until end of business day today to resolve the charges and if not then a process server would contact me. He noted the judge will put a lien on my bank account and garnish my pay and that they will run my SSN through a database and find me. He left a return number of 402-382-7931 (which is a Ainsworth, NE phone number).