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United Reader Services or USA Collections Complaints - Harassing telephone calls!

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United Reader Services or USA Collections
Posted: 2008-04-07 by Aladdin [send email]
Harassing telephone calls!
Complaint Rating: 100 % with 13 votes
Company information:
United Reader Services / USA Collections
Pennsylvania
United States

United Readers call claiming that money is owed on a magazine subscription. I have NO subscriptions to ANY magazines. They threaten to send me to collections, 2 weeks later USA COLLECTIONS calls and says I owe money, when I tell them that I have no magazine subscriptions they say they will have to look into it. When I ask telemarketer "Mark" on the other end of the phone his telephone number he hangs up.
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211 days ago by David [send email]
On May 7th a guy who identified himself as Donald Hansen called my home phone number several times. My spouse told him to call me after 7pm. I spoke with him at 8:45pm and he said he was calling from U.S. Collections in Messina, New York, about a magazine or book order that I had placed back in 2004 and then didn't pay for from a company called United Reader Services. He said I owed $647.72 on contract number 912847, which includes interest. When I asked exactly what I purchased, he said it was for a magazine subscription or for religious or adult literature.

When I asked for the phone number for his company he repeatedly told me that I would get that after I initiated payment.

Obviously this is a scam and I hope someone finds a way to contact these jerks.
209 days ago by Andy [send email]
We just received the same call from Don Hanson from U.S. Collections about a 847.72 Debt from a magazine subscription. The case number was the same as the above (912847)

They did not have a social security number, but still threatened to place this on my wife's credit report. When I asked for a phone number, they gave me one.

It turned out to be for an Adult Line

Verizon traced the call, and we will be filing a police report
209 days ago by J Hunt [send email]
I just received a call from James Comer at US Collections Agency stating that we owed United Reader Services $747.72-funny how the amounts are all similar. I was not given a contract number. He would not give me his phone number or the number of United Reader unless I paid him a fee, and then he would have someone get back to me. I have never ordered magazines from this company and I plan on fighting this. I saw we all have reason for filing a lawsuit against United. Let's attack them like they are attacking us.
205 days ago by Mike [send email]
We received a call from "David Wilkins" of United Reader Services. Just like the others, he stated that we owed $647.72 for a subscription we verbally agreed to in 2004. He stated that they would turn us over to collections if we didn't pay. When asked for his phone number, he stated that he could not give it out until after we made a payment. When asked what magazine we subscribed to, he said his agency didn't have that information. He was verbally abusive to my wife and I hope that somebody catches up with these morons.
204 days ago by Nathan [send email]
Same story as above, but said his name was David Wilson from U.S. Collections, trying to collect from United Readers Service / United Reader Services. Said we owed $647 but was willing to settle for $499. How nice of them to do that, considering I don't havent received any magazine subscriptions since 2004. He was belligerent, implied that I was gay, called my brother a "f-ggot", threatened to go to court and that this would ruin my credit, that I would be blacklisted, etc. I told him I would gladly welcome the chance to go to court to resolve this, since I NEVER ORDERED ANY STUPID MAGAZINES AND DONT OWE THEM ANYTHING. What a huge scam!

I have contacted my state's consumer protection agency but will probably also be filing complaints with the FTC and FCC.
204 days ago by B [send email]
Wow same phone call from James Comer! Gooogled United Readers Complaints and this website and thread was the very first entry!

"James Comer" called for my wife on 5-14-08 claiming to represent US Collections on behalf of United Readers. Said we owed $647.72 for magazines purchased in 2004. Claim number 912847. Looks like "James" or "David" has been busy. Of course we never bought any magazines from United Readers or anyone else in 2004. And yes he offered to settled the account for $499.95 (2 payments of $250 each). When my wife refused to give him any financial information he said the only alternative was for the matter to be sent to their legal department.

After seeing the other posts in this thread it seems obvious that this is a scam. I also plan on filling the proper complaints but it is probably difficult to find / track this type of person. I will contact my phone company to see if it's possible for them to trace the number he called from.
199 days ago by Richard [send email]
Much the same as reported above; my wife got a call from someone claiming to represent United Reader Service about a month ago. The caller insisted we owed more than $700 for magazine subscriptions and said our credit rating would suffer if we did not pay. The caller was rude and threatening.

I actually emailed United Reader Service to confirm that they did not list me as having ever been a customer and did not have a record of any outstanding debt. The email I received from them said this is likely a scam. I also reported the caller to the Attorney General's Office in my state.

About 3 1/2 weeks later I received a call from 'Robert Johnson' stating that we owed more than $700 but they would settle for $499. I asked 'Robert' a lot of questions and he said he was calling from Masena, NY, but, oddly, he did not know the local zip code. 'Robert' said the only way to resolve the situation without my credit rating taking a hit was to agree to pay. I asked him to give me an address to send the money to, but, he insisted the only way to pay was for him to transfer me to their collection line where they would accept a credit card number. I finally agreed, just to see what would happen, and he refused to connect me; he said I didn't sound sincere about paying the bill (at least he got that part right).

He finally gave up on me and said he would have his supervisor call me back in 5 minutes; of course another call never came.
58 days ago by Sara [send email]
I just got my 4 month call from United Readers Services about magazines "ordered" in March 2004. How come they use the same date and similar amounts? How do we stop these calls?

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