The email messages below, which appear to have been sent by a so-called "Debt Collection Division" claiming legal actions will be taken against the recipients to recover balances due, legal fees and court cost that has incurred, are scams. The fake email messages are being sent by online scammers and not the legitimate Ace Law Office, to frighten and trick the recipients into sending them money by threatening lawsuits against them. Therefore, recipients of the fake email messages should delete and should not follow the instructions in them.
It is important that the public takes precautions when asked to send money via money transfer services like Western Union and MoneyGram, or Prepaid Debit Card to pay legal services or the government. This is because scammers use those untraceable money transfer services to collect money from their victims. Money sent via those services are not refundable, once the scammers have collected or used it.
The "Debt Collection Agency Legal Notice" Phishing Scam
From: Debt collection agency <collection.department1552@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Notice to legally prosecute
Greetings,
We appreciate your response in order to settle the matter out of court. As you were looking for payment plan we can provide with payment arrangements,
1. You can pay one time of Settlement Amount $950.27 upcoming Friday (as paid in full with a zero balance) or,
2. If you are able to pay settlement amount we can provide you biweekly or monthly installment of $550.00 or,
3. If you are not able to work with the given settlement amount then the best we can do for you is we can provide five monthly payments each of $262.00. Kindly confirm us the five dates on which you can make your payment of $262.00.
4. If you are not comfortable with above mention installments, we can provide the list amount of $154 to pay every month. There will be 10 installments of $154.
5. Still, if you cannot afford any payments from above mentioned arrangements, then you can let us know how you can pay monthly.
Kindly let us know one the option that is affordable for you so that we can update our accounts department in order to put your account on hold.
Do Revert ASAP!!
If you have any queries, you can call us at +1 (509) -560-4352.
Thanks & Regards
Logan Brown
(Senior investigation, attorney)
Debt Collection Division