Asset Recovery Associates Samuel Douglas Scam artists & extortionists Lombard Illinois

I was contacted on 3/21/17 by Asset Recovery Associates about a credit card debt that I supposedly owed.  It was listed under my former married name.  They said I owed $2500.00 from 1983 & 1991.

They said the debt is from a furniture company that I nor my current husband have never heard of nor bought from. I called the furniture company & talked to the credit department. They were very nice.  They have no record of me ever buying anything from them.

The furniture company is based in Texas. All furniture I ever bought was bought within 50 miles of our home in Ohio. I have never been in Texas as an adult.

Asset Recovery Company had my & my current husbands' ss numbers, my former address, our current address, and a couple of our complete credit card numbers.  I never gave him any of these numbers.

ARA threated to block our credit cards so we could not charge anymore than what is already on them.  The guy even knew the balance on the one credit card.

He also threatened to put the $2500.00 on the credit card, if we refused to pay.