Perhaps Rick's alert will act as a heads-up to genuine credit agencies to
provide these details, then they wouldn't be mistaken for scams. I would
have been very suspicious too,  especially in view of their unwillingness
to provide the information Rick asked them for.

Sandra

At 11:45 a.m. 31/03/2006, you wrote:
>To anyone else who has received fake-looking "collection notices" from
>Credit Mediators, Inc.:
>
>I heard back from Thomson Scientific this morning, and it turns out that
>they actually do use CMI as a collections service for old, low-dollar
>invoices.  (The particular notice they sent us was due to a clerical
>error on Thomson's part, but obviously that wasn't CMI's fault.)
>
>So although the collection notice looked for all the world like a scam
>(since it cited no invoice number or product name and offered no
>evidence that CMI was really an authorized agent of Thomson), it was
>not.  Apologies for any stress I may have caused.
>
>----
>Rick Anderson
>Dir. of Resource Acquisition
>University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
>(775) 784-6500 x273
>rickand@unr.edu