Consumers Write in Regarding Marauder/CPS

I have found your website to be helpful and provided to any person I think needs to get educated. It seems that MARAUDER CORPORATION is at it again. My friend (****** *****) contacted you about MARAUDER CORPORATION and Gambill.

Now I have been harassed by them. per your advice, ***** filed complaints with Attorneys General in ***** and California plus the California Collection agency.

Mr. White from Nationwide Capital Recovery stated to the Attorney General of ***** Mr. White is trying to point the finger that I was in violation of the law to smoke screen the real issue. They refusing to validate the debt.

I have responded to the Attorney General about this false allegation from MARAUDER CORPORATION or whatever company he wants to act under. I will be sending you copies of the complaint filed, Mr. White's response and letter from the Mo. Attorney General. Once again I see you are correct about this scum. He will lie to protect himself and his illegal activity.

I am in need of some help dealing with CPS Investigations. I saw all of the negative posts on your website regarding them and thought you might be able to provide some guidance.  These people have been contacting me non stop for 18 months. They first started by leaving messages on my voicemail stating that they were the “CPS Agency”. Well, as I was going through a nasty custody battle, I became worried. So I tried to return their call. Instead of reaching a person, I got a voicemail that said “if you are a police officer, press 1, an attorney involved in an open case – press 2, a defendant - press 3…etc.” So I left a message.

After that point, I was constantly being called by someone identifying himself as “Mr. Michaels”. He was threatening on my voicemail and left messages saying “if you are not Jessica but any friend or family member, inform her that she will have charges pressed against her and he husbands wages will be garnished”. I was unmarried at the time. So, I decided to call this man back after at least 10 similar messages.

When I got in touch with him, at first he was very rude, calling me a deadbeat and a social slacker. I told him to expect a cease comm letter from me to which he replied “Those are not valid with us because we are a legal agency”. I repeatedly asked him if they were themselves or were affiliated with any law enforcement and all he replied was ‘We are a legal agency, yes”. I got irate with him and actually started crying on the phone….to which he responded with kindness…(fake of course).  In short, he got me to provide my banking info for automatic withdrawals. I paid somewhere in the range of $150 on a $500 debt before I saw the posts on your website. Then I promptly changed my account number. Shortly after this the calls started again. This time from a female named Toni Powers. Every time she calls (when I answer) she starts off by saying a something similar to you have a debt to pay and you will pay it today or face legal consequences up to and including garnishments and arrest. I asked her to send me any documentation in the mail, to which she refused and said that “I already know I am in debt so just pay it!” I also asked her for an address to send payment (so I could send a cease communication letter) which she refused to provide. Now, she just called again today and this time she said, I know you were married on October 14, 2006 (correct) so trust me,you do not want to start your married life with us”. (very threatening tone). I hung up on her…I am now confident that they are searching public records for any information they can on me including pulling my credit report (they have mentioned this too).

Received a call today from CPS stating that I needed to pay 478.00 on an old payday loan that was from 7-7-02 if I did not pay that they would have me put in jail, then he told me to grow up and pay my bills when I told him I would report him to the FTC he then told me that they the (FTC) would also put me in jail I said what ever and I informed him that i was going to report him to the California American Collectors he kept talking Informed him that the statue of limitations was out in Texas. Was I right in doing this.

I have been contacted numerously about a debt that I believe I do not owe by this company. The debt is over 6yrs old and I have never rec'd a letter or anything from this company or the company they say I owe the money to.

I did some research and could not even find the original company that  they assumed the debt from and requested information on the debt. When I did receive a letter it was from Mrs. Edwards and stated that I had wrote a bad check when I had not written a check to anyone because I  didn't even know that this debt existed and never tried to pay it. The  agents were rude and unwilling to give any information about the debt  and was threatening garnishment if i didn't sent them 700.00 in two days. I immediately contacted a lawyer to help me sort this out and he  advised me NOT TO SEND ANY MONEY and that this sounded like a scam. I  have not heard from them after my lawyer contacted them and I did not send any money.

They were calling me from different numbers and harassing me and  telling me characteristics about myself or trying to find out information about me personally. He was rude and determined i was going to pay and i didn't. It has been a year later and the phone calls have begun again first with Maurader Corporation showing up and now CPS on the caller id. I have disputed this with the Credit Bureau but can not be sure if i was really talking to them or another one of their agents pretending to be an investigator. Once the agent found out I had contacted a lawyer he became angry and started calling even more to harass. I told him I would file a police report if the calls didn't stop and they were after 9pm and continuously. I never spoke with a Mrs. Edwards and i only rec'd half of the information concerning the debt. his company has to be stopped and I don't know what I can do to help but no one should have to endure the cruel treatment and stress from any company.

I sent Marauder Corp. a request for validation and this guy is absolutely unbelievable. He is extremely threatening, arrogant and calls continuously. States he does not have to abide by the laws, keeps saying the only way to end this is for me to sue him like everyone else and then I will get the same thing they received NOTHING. Tells me I am not smart enough to spell statute of  limitations, I am barley smart enough to clean bathrooms for a living, I am a deadbeat dad who probably does not pay child support.  Read my entire credit report to one of my friends, calls and harasses  my parents. This guy can't even keep his name straight, neither can  his associates, it's unbelievable. However I have discovered that the address he said to send complaints to is the address for another company, the one his PROCESS AGENT Lynn O'Conner owns and runs, does she handle his complaints, which would involve her?

I am sending you this after our phone conversation yesterday. I received another call from our friend after I spoke to you. He had sent it over to a Ms. Kayal Brown in which she ended up hanging up on me right after she informed me that this will never be removed from my credit report, NOT EVER. When I try calling back they will only give me his voicemail so I left a question for him. I simply asked that if he does not pay his judgments, does that make him a deadbeat debt collector he said this caught his attention and he made calling me back priority one. Then he proceeded to ramble on about Bud Hibbs, I said what are you talking about I never said anything about Bud Hibbs. I have dug deep into this company. I am sending you all the info  via certified mail.

It's actually owned by PARACORP, Marauder was started in 2000, he also uses CPS Investigations, which I found interesting, I asked him if he was licensed as an investigator in California according to Business and Professional Codes 7520-7539 and you know he will not answer that question. The company Professional Collection Services was suspended in 1971. He still will not give me his real name and will not validate this debt as the laws do not apply to him, so he states. Tells me I can't even spell statue of limitations. The phones are listed under the name Joaquin Murguia, he claims that this person no longer works there, does not matter, phones are still in his name, therefore he is still responsible for them. Lynne O'Conner is the Processing agent shown on the address on Bob Hope drive.