CAMCO - Capital Acquisition & Management Company ripoff harrassing collection calls fraudulent identity theft scam artists Lauderdale Illinois and Florida

Received a call requesting my husband stated he was not home I was his wife could I help them. They stated my husband owed a balance on a CitiBank credit card.

Explained we have no account open with CitiBank and he interrupted saying it goes back to 1985 and that they had bought the account and are now trying to collect. They have been trying to contact my husband and started to give a list of previous address and also had social security number. I had asked for proof and he said they didn't have proof since they had bought the collection account from another company but they had all the other information and that they have been sending letters and calling. Told him again we did not have account and unless he could show proof that he did that many years back I was not paying anything. He had me on the phone over 2 hours, pressuring me saying that if I hang up they could not make arrangements on this debt and kept giving me more information that they had collected from his past.

They had me talk with several different people a "manager", "senior auditor's". They pressured into a settlement and reducing the amount if a check was given over the phone. With all the information they had, we were starting to get scared that they could ruin our credit so I said I would give a small down payment and that I was not signing anything and this way I could
to research with CitiBank and get advise from outside source) and they emailed me a proposed settlement. They were persistant in getting some money right away and they gave me phone numbers to call and check them out. I immediately hung-up did research and found a scam alert on this company and read other complaints. I even had other people in the area receive similar calls that very same week, one being a widower and they claimed her deceased husband owed money.

I quickly closed bank account and stopped payment on the check that I gave to them over the phone. I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commision and also contacted a local television station to alert viewers in the area. This had all taken place end of March 2004. It took Camco several weeks before they started calling again to collect. As advised, I told them I do not owe them any money and to quite calling and hung up. Calls continued for another week then stopped until just recently and now they call dailey several times. On first call I did as before said to quite calling, I do not owe any money and that I filed a complaint. Calls are continuing several times a day and now have last 3 weeks. Would appreciate any help.

Tom or Mary
Oceanside, California
U.S.A.