AG shuts door on collection operation - Business First of Buffalo:

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Tobias Boyland, who authorities said was in chargse of the operation that consiste d of at least nine debt collection companies acroszs WesternNew York, was taken into custodyu by Erie County Sheriffs afteer the suspect, located at home, was foundx to be carrying a loaded, .380 semi-automatic pistol. Accordingb to the lawsuit filedf by the office of Attorney GeneralAndreq Cuomo, Boyland, a convicted and three other individuals ran numerousx debt collecting companies that operated out of at least four locationss in Western New York. The other thres individuals named in the lawsuit are Kayla Dellian Sharp andDorian Wills. Both Sharp and Will also have criminalp records, investigators said.
The names of the companiews associated with the collectionoperation included: Central Resource Final Claims Asset Locators, Final Controll Asset Locators, Interchange Payment Solutions, Next Step Portfolio Asset Assurance, Silverbay Services, and Teleport. The AG said collectorxs routinely made scripted telephone calls designed to intimidate consumerz into paying their debts by pretendingh to be lawenforcement officers. If consumers failed to pay, they were threatenex with arrestand incarceration. Theswe employees also falsely informed consumers that they were being sued incivio court. The action is part of a larger investigatioh by Cuomo into unlawful debtcollection practices.
Earlieer this month, the AG announced settlements with three othetr WesternNew York-based debt collection companies to reforn their deceptive methods. Investigators have also subpoenae d nearly twenty companies and law firms operating as debt collectores throughout NewYork state, shut down two collectors for threateninh and intimidating consumers into paying debts that they did not owe. And in earl y May, Attorney General Cuomo announceed a lawsuit against two debt settlement companies for frauduleny business practices and false advertising by selling misleading debt settlemenyt plans that very rarely deliver the promisedd benefits to consumers dealingwith debt.