Bass & Associates, a collection company currently under investigation by the state of Florida may now be targeting consumers in other states.

Over 300 complaints against have been filed with the Florida attorney general against Bass & Associates, a debt collection agency accused of violating both federal and state debt collection laws.

Complaints against this company include:

• Claiming or implying to be attorneys or government agents and threatening arrest or legal action
• Claiming or collecting exorbitant debt amounts
• Use of harassing or intimidation techniques such as repeated phone calls or calls to a debtor’s place of work.

When calling consumers the company usually refuses to identify itself or use a variety of aliases including:

• States Predisposition
• Bass Enterprises/Bass Pre-Litigation
• United Legal Investigations Bureau
• United Federal Bank
• Impact Business Marketing
• Ellis Crosby & Associates
• Jackson Phillips & Associates
• Kirby & Associates

Many of the harrassing calls originate from these two phone numbers:

 866-900-7694 and 800-918-3844

"Though their aliases vary, their method never does. Masquerading as bankers, attorneys, police or other government officials, these crooks call consumers and attempt to extort money with a myriad of illegal false threats. These threats are always phony and include arresting you, ruining your credit rating, serving you "papers" for a lawsuit and, yes, taking your children away from you.  In one recent phone call to a consumer, these crooks even pretended to be on a walkie talkie coordinating a police raid of the consumer’s home.  Granted, this stuff is laughably ridiculous, but, sadly, some people fall for it."

From http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-918-3844 (click link to read about illegal techniques reportedly used by this company).