The Better Business Bureau Serving Greater Cleveland is warning consumers about a company claiming to be a collection agency that is attempting to extort money from people by scaring them with fake lawsuits.
According to the BBB, consumers claim LRS Litigation Services makes robocalls that state they have been named in a lawsuit and, if they do not call LRS within four hours, a restraining order will be issued against them. LRS has used nearly a dozen different phone numbers, many of which are answered by messages indicating the mailbox is full. Some have been disconnected. Complainants have reported repeated calls to places of employment after notification to stop and the inability of the company to produce or describe any specific documentation of the debt they are trying to collect. In addition, the company reportedly keeps calling and harassing individuals even after being notified that LRS is calling the wrong person.
Complaints to BBB have grown dramatically since the company first surfaced in December 2012, when consumers in Ohio and across the country reported receiving repeated threatening phone calls about payday loan debts. Sixty complaints and over 2,000 inquiries about LRS have been received at BBB to date.
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