County Check Services
Complaint 82229 Details

A man called my brother's home leaving a message with only my maiden and last name (the man thought my maiden name was my first name). I called him back because my brother said the message was threatening. This first phone call was January 2012. The man was threatening and said I had an unpaid pay day loan. I asked for the original payday company's name and he gave it to me. He said the check was originally for $175. I told him I would research this because I don't write checks and haven't wrote a check in over ten years since debit cards became easy to use. He argued I needed to pay this immediately or I would be arrested on three charges of check fraud, theft for purchase of good with the money I received from the payday advance, and larceny. I said you are so full of it because only a district attorney can bring those charges against me and a collection agency wouldn't call to tell me that, they would just arrest me. The man back tracked and said that I would be civil sued and then the district attorney could bring charges if I'm found guilty in a civil suit. I informed him it is illegal to charge that much interest on a debt of $175 and I told him because of that, the case would be dismissed, if there was a case. I told him I was going to call the company and research this by calling my cousin who is an attorney. He said I only had two days as the case will go to their attorneys. I said I'm not handing money over to people I don't know and have no idea what they are talking about. Since I don't live in the same town of the payday company I called and spoke with the manager. He had no idea what the man was talking about. I don't have any outstanding debts with their company and they don't even use this particular agency to collects debts. I told the manager that I would need some verification and that I would be in the area in a week. I picked up my letter from the manager and kept it with me in case the man called back. I also googled this company and found all the scam complaints and figured this wasn't a legitimate company. I also checked to see how long someone can recover from a bad check and California law is 3 years and if this was legitimate company, why did they wait so long. They kept telling me it happened in 2005 which I lived in my hometown at the time and was in the same house for over five years and had the same phone number for 12 years.
Low and behold, my brother called yesterday stating someone called and left a message I would be served tomorrow between 12-6pm and to have two forms of ID and if I couldn't make this time or wanted to resolve this problem, to call County Check Services at 760-273-8078 and provided my 'case' number. I tried to call but apparently they are not in the pacific time zone and no one answered. Interesting that there was no voicemail either for a legitimate company. I thought about calling this morning and recording them but seriously, notifying the public here was a better use of my time then arguing with con-artists.