August 2008
My mother-in-law 72 received a phone call from A Sgt. Berman with the Walton County Sheriffs Dept. He advised her he had a warrant to arrest my bother-in-law by 2:30pm that day if she didn't contact Greenman and Donhaue, a law firm out of East Aurora, New York. My mother-in-law did so. These con artists threatened her with arresting my brother-in-law if she didn't pay these debts now. They were supposedly $17,500.00 from different credit cards dated back to 1990. My mother-in-law began paying them. After a few days my mother-in-law came to me because the phone calls dept coming in the amounts were getting higher. I began to check into the organization and verified the fact that they are not lawyers and they are not law enforcement. I contacted the sheriffs department and verified the fact the there is NO such Sgt. Berman. I immediately contacted the bank and close the account. We did manage to get $16,500.00 of her money back. I contacted Greenman and Donahue myself and ask for the account numbers to verify payment to these credit card companies. I spoke with a man named Claude Tangiers. He claims to be an attorney. However I can find no record of this. Approximately 1-2 weeks after the money was reclaimed by my mother-in-law, Mr. Tangiers called and threatened her. He stated that he had her recorded permission to take the money and therefore she was violating a federal law. That he would contact her bank and discuss this with them. Her bank has already been alerted to the criminal activity that has been going on. I spoke with Mr. Tangeirs again after he threatened my mother-in-law. I advised him that we were well aware of what he was doing and that we had researched him and his organization thoroughly on the internet. This company has changed names 5 different times. There calls will come from Florida, North Carolina and New York City. If you read comments submitted by other parties. They use the same police officers name.
(He claimed to be a lawyer) The other day I was contacted by a man claiming to be with the Roanoke County Sheriff. He said he had a writ to arrest me and my wife because of a bad debt. He told me that he could put it on “Courtesy Hold” and I could talk to the lawyer handling the case. I asked him for his phone number in case I had a problem with the lawyer’s number but he said he wasn’t allowed to give it out the phone number to their cars. I called the lawyer and made arrangements to have the payment of $3000.00 taken out of my checking account on Friday. I then made arrangements to barrow the money. I checked the firm name and phone number on the internet and couldn’t find it. Things just didn’t sound right to me. I called the Sheriff’s office the next day and they said they didn’t have anyone named Berman, the name he gave me, working for them. The Sheriff’s office was very helpful and checked the court information and didn’t have anything for me or my wife. I also checked with North Carolina, that’s where they claimed it originated, and the NC court didn’t have anything on me either.