The RIAA’s Settlement Support Center & Settlement Hotline
Hiring a “professional systems expert” when only a collections agency like company called ‘Settlement Support Center’ – is calling you is way too much money and effort that is only wasted. It means ’sucker’ to the rep. Easy commission. Guilty or not (especially when not guilty because of the fear tactics), throw all letters in the garbage, and ignore all calls with unknown or no-number on the caller-id.
The Settlement Support Center is obviously a type of company who buys lawsuits off of other people and litigates them in their behalf. If the Settlement Support center paid the RIAA $2500 for the lawsuit, then $3750 is a 50% profit for the “Settlement Support Center” collections agency. Being in a no or little garnishment state such as no car or used car with a lien (private-party is better), and being a renter, not owning stocks, bonds, no savings accounts, no IRA / 401K (these are very difficult to garnish but it can be done), and not being a too valued employee is very helpful, but for under $5000, an actual court summons is highly unlikely, at least in Arizona unless they can get it filed as small-claims because of the expenses involved.
Having unresolved ambiguous mailing addresses on your credit due to attempted, but unsuccessful identity theft attempts seems to help too. My background check is two addresses out of date because I’m too lazy to do any of the forwarding and updating stuff and it greatly cuts my junk mail down (I update my credit cards so it does go on my credit). My ambiguous address on my credit report from 2 of the 3 credit bureaus, which is actually listed as current with both, is actually to a former hammer / shot-put star in AZUSA, CA, which is probably more creditor-botchup than attempted identity theft. If you got weird crap on your credit but no weird accounts or unexplained derogatory items (from non-credit defaultings from services granted on the false identity such as apartment rental), don’t bother to fix it, as long as you don’t need significant credit (car loan, mortgage).
Guilt or innocence doesn’t mean anything to these people.? They bought a case from the RIAA, and they expect a profit, and they are getting profits, so far, with typical fear tactics and harassment.? This is despite the only evidence being offered are ip address and filename pairs from outsourced services NetSentry or BayTSP. If you refuse on the phone, you are going to court.? If you ignore calls and letters, you only ‘might’ go to court, and if you are ungarnishable, you can even ditch the summons!!
