Hi Everyone,Here are some helpful hints in dealing with this company:If you are receiving calls from this number:1. Do not reply or acknowledge them2. Contact the following resourcesFile Complaints with:Law Society of Upper Canada- File a direct complaint againsthttp://www.lsuc.on.ca/public/a/complaints/Natale Law Firmc/o Deanna Natale1490 Denison RoadSuite 100Markham ON(905) 413-85452.Ontario Privacy CommissionerFile a complaint against:http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/Resources/IPC-Co ... Summary/?id=668Global International Inc (Global Credit and Collections)1490 Denison Street,Markham, ONL3R-9T7905-479-22223. Minister of Consumer Affairs- file a complaint Both firms for they are one and the same.http://www.sse.gov.on.ca/mcs/en/Pages/Complaint_Steps_to_File.aspx4. If the harassment is excessive, please contact a local lawyer that specializes in consumer law and they will take up your case.Reasons for complaints:Firm are conducting business practices? in breach of the Canadian collections act, as well as breaches of Canadian Privacy Law.Some of the breaches are as follows:Registration4.  (1)  No person shall carry on the business of a collection agency or act as a collector unless the person is registered by the Registrar under this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 4 (1).Name and place of business(2)  A registered collection agency shall not carry on business in a name other than the name in which it is registered or invite the public to deal at a place other than that authorized by the registration. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 4 (2).Use of name to collect debts5.  No creditor shall deal with the debtor for payment of the debt except under the name in which the debt is lawfully owing or through a registered collection agency. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 5.Conditions of registration(2)  A registration is subject to such terms and conditions to give effect to the purposes of this Act as are consented to by the applicant, imposed by the Tribunal or prescribed by the regulations. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 6 (2).Notice requiring hearing(2)  A notice under subsection (1) shall state that the applicant or registrant is entitled to a hearing by the Tribunal if the applicant or registrant mails or delivers, within fifteen days after service of the notice under subsection (1), notice in writing requiring a hearing to the Registrar and the Tribunal, and the applicant or registrant may require such a hearing. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 8 (2).Confidentiality17.  (1)  A person who obtains information in the course of exercising a power or carrying out a duty related to the administration of this Act or the regulations shall preserve secrecy with respect to the information and shall not communicate the information to any person except,Use of unregistered collection agency24.  (1)  No person shall knowingly engage or use the services of a collection agency that is not registered under this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 24 (1).Employment of unregistered collectors(2)  No collection agency shall employ a collector or appoint or authorize a collector to act on its behalf unless the collector is registered under this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 24 (2).False advertising25.  Where the Registrar believes on reasonable and probable grounds that a collection agency is making false, misleading or deceptive statements in any advertisement, circular, pamphlet or similar material, the Registrar may order the immediate cessation of the use of such material, and section 8 applies with necessary modifications to the order in the same manner as to a proposal by the Registrar to refuse registration and the order of the Registrar shall take effect immediately, but the Tribunal may grant a stay until the Registrar?s order becomes final. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 25.Practices prohibited22.  No collection agency or collector shall,(a) collect or attempt to collect for a person for whom it acts any money in addition to the amount owing by the debtor;(b) communicate or attempt to communicate with a person for the purpose of collecting, negotiating or demanding payment of a debt by a means that enables the charges or costs of the communication to be payable by that person;(c) receive or make an agreement for the additional payment of any money by a debtor of a creditor for whom the collection agency acts, either on its own account or for the creditor and whether as a charge, cost, expense or otherwise, in consideration for any forbearance, favour, indulgence, intercession or other conduct by the collection agency;(d) deal with a debtor in a name other than that authorized by the registration; or(e) engage in any prohibited practice or employ any prohibited method in the collection of debts. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 22; 2002, c. 18, Sched. E, s. 3 (1).

I have been getting phone messages from this unethical organization now for 3 months and I'm now angry. I do not have any debt collectors looking for money. How do we put these con artists out of business? Why aren't the authorities reacting?

ITS A SCAM I fell for it cause I do owe money and tryed to pay eveything off, so i paid and now some random person as my visa number

I've recently rented a suite that came with a new phone line. Since arriving, this phone # calls at least once a day. Today I picked up and held down the zero key on my keypad. I could hear two guys in the background laughing and saying "she must be pissed off". Then they disconnected the call, and called back three more times where the same thing occurred.

I've now registered with the Do Not Call registry: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/cofi-fico-eng.

Hopefully that makes these knobs leave me alone. They don't want me, they want the last owner of the phone # I've sadly been assigned.

For the past weeks I have been getting calls from them today.. I found it a bit odd since they don't say the law offices name or anything. They just state law office. I just hang up since it's not even a real person talking. When it comes to my name you hear a real person saying.

This may sound a litle odd but does anyone else dal with the Royal Bank? The reason I ask is tat my girlsfriend started receiving these calls which didn't make sense but what madeeve less sense is that I started receiving these cals as well but at her house, we hadn't moved in together yet, I had my own house. The only thing that tied me to her adress and phone number is a bank account we opened jointly a few weeks before.