Look, this P.O. Box Address is obviously being used in a SCAM OPERATION of some sort. I got a letter from GC Serivices today myself, saying I owe them $380.00.. the more I looked into it, the more obvious it's become. These people who are using this P.O. Box # in Baldwin Park (7835), and are rip-off scam artists. No question in my mind about it, they're ripping innocent people off blind posing as legitimate debt collectors and even using a legitimate collector's company name, logo, etc. So what is going to be done about it?, (is my question). Why aren't the police notified and the person collecting checks and such from this Baldwin Park P.O. Box put behind bars? It should be a very simple case of finding these people at the PO Box, and putting an end to their shenanigans once and for all. No? But looking here at these complaints, ... there's one dating back to 2009! Ten years this has gone on? Something is very, very odd in that a 10 year old scam is still in operation today. (My letter is dated 11/1/2019) This scam, or 'scam network' is pretty elaborate, I'm thinking, because besides the PO Box in Baldwin Park there are listed 2 other addresses in the letter, and these are the actual addresses of the GC Services company. These criminals are posing as GC Services, putting these false debts out to the innocent public, and collecting the rewards of the worst-gotten gains imaginable, from you and me, at this Baldwin Park P.O. Box facility.
It appears that an actual letter from the GC Services company on a debt collection was used as a template, the "Send payment to" - Baldwin Park address, was simply added, as well as the two (English / Spanish) contact numbers added as well. The current phone numbers for the actual GC Services company are entirely different 800 and 877 numbers. the two listed, [protected] and [protected] are not, and never have been, GC Services company's public phone numbers. When I google search the numbers, they are not legit; so the first thing one should do when you get one of these letters is just that: Google it. There is, on the letter, a section where it says "Citation" (lists a citation number for me), then "Date" (on mine it just has two dashes, ... no actual date), and an "Amount" (they were trying to nail me for $380). My supposed debtor was listed as "La Superior-Depndncy" which I'm assuming means the L.A. Superior Court Children's court, but I noticed the "a" in L.A. is small case and nowhere is that dept., on the internet, ever listed in an abbreviated "Depndncy" format. True, it 'could be' the company's abbreviation code for that dept, but then why would the department name not be stated fully in my letter, and why no address or phone number "for them", so I could track down the original debt if there was one; and no "date" (year), just two dashes(?) I did have business with the L.A. Children's court at one time, but had no sort of debt incurred from them.. this was back in 2005, so for it to be just surfacing from almost 15 years ago, now, (for the first time to my knowledge), just isn't feasible.
Bottom line, it's a scam. Anyone receiving similar from these people, using this payment address, these phone numbers, you should treat it as such. Should we all report these letters to the police so that maybe this operation will be stopped?... I'm thinking, "yes", but I'm also leery in that nothing's been done to stop it in over ten years time, and I'm sure they change phone numbers and PO Boxes periodically, but still, how could it go on this long?... unless, of course, no one's taken the time to bother reporting the scam to the police in the past... so yeah, we all should!
