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QAR, Quadrant Accounts Receivable, Falzone Law Office & more going on in New York
Filed Under: Collections
Filed Under: Collections
According to Bud Hibbs site, this CA is one of the newest worst collection agencies. They threaten to sue and garnish your bank account repeatedly. Intimidation works for them. Felons run this company perhaps? QAR is a junk debt collector out of Amherst, NY run by a known con artist Daniel Luis Mendez. They pay NY attorney Frank Falzone a commission to rent his law license so they can threaten legal actions. Falzone and QAR do not have any license or bonds in several states where we checked. That phone number with area cod 214 is likely a VOIP (Voice over internet protocol) number they use as a ruse to scam consumers into thinking they are located in many states. Falzone is not very bright, he joins a long list of NY lawyers who have rented out their law licenses for a paycheck. QAR has changed it’s name several times because of the mounting judgments from lawsuits it has defaulted on. This operation is typical of the sleazy debt collectors working out of Western New York area who lie, scam and extort money they are not entitled to. My advice is stay far away from these scammers as they will steal your money and give you nothing in return. Remember it is far less expensive to beat a junk debt buyer in court than to cave into extortion.
Tobias Boyland, who authorities said was in charge of the operation that consisted of at least nine debt collection companies across Western New York, was taken into custody by Erie County Sheriffs after the suspect, located at home, was found to be carrying a loaded, .380 semi-automatic pistol.
According to the lawsuit filed by the office of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Boyland, a convicted felon, and three other individuals ran numerous debt collecting companies that operated out of at least four locations in Western New York. The other three individuals named in the lawsuit are Kayla Pritchett, Dellian Sharp and Dorian Wills. Both Sharp and Will also have criminal records, investigators said.
The names of the companies associated with the collection operation included: Central Resource Management, Final Claims Asset Locators, Final Control Asset Locators, Interchange Payment Solutions, Next Step Services, Portfolio Asset Assurance, Silverbay Services, and Teleport.
The AG said collectors routinely made scripted telephone calls designed to intimidate consumers into paying their debts by pretending to be law enforcement officers. If consumers failed to pay, they were threatened with arrest and incarceration. These employees also falsely informed consumers that they were being sued in civil court.
The action is part of a larger investigation by Cuomo into unlawful debt collection practices. Earlier this month, the AG announced settlements with three other Western New York-based debt collection companies to reform their deceptive methods. Investigators have also subpoenaed nearly twenty companies and law firms operating as debt collectors throughout New York state, shut down two collectors for threatening and intimidating consumers into paying debts that they did not owe. And in early May, Attorney General Cuomo announced a lawsuit against two debt settlement companies for fraudulent business practices and false advertising by selling misleading debt settlement plans that very rarely deliver the promised benefits to consumers dealing with debt.
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NEW YORK (AP) – New York authorities say they’ve shut down a debt collection company that was falsely telling people they’d be thrown in jail if they didn’t pay immediately.
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says the Buffalo firm routinely broke the law by having its collectors impersonate law enforcement officials.
In reality, the company was run by ex-convicts.
Owner Tobias Boyland was arrested Tuesday after investigators serving a search warrant discovered a loaded pistol.
A judge issued a temporary order closing the company’s doors.
Boyland’s firm did nationwide business under several names.
It was the subject of an expose on Dateline NBC in March.
Messages left with the company and Boyland’s lawyer weren’t immediately returned.
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