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I received a call from a person purportedly from Atlantic Recovery Solutions who identified herself as NAME. She called me on Nov. 12, 2025 looking for my son. She said that they had not been able to reach him. She was interested in contacting my son so that she could resolve a debt that she said he had concerning a "Best Buy VISA card issued by Citibank" to him in 2021. She said that the amount owed was $1,353, but that they would settle it for $1,015, otherwise the unsatisfied debt would be placed on his credit report. I told her that he was traveling, I would try to reach him, but I knew him to be someone who paid his bills. She called me back again on Nov. 13, 2025 and asked me if I was going to settle his debt, and that the option to settle it for the reduced amount would only be available until Nov. 14th, or it would go on his credit report, that he had what appeared to be good credit and that this would ruin it. I think they were trying to extort the money from me under false pretenses, as my son insists he has never opened a BestBuy account nor has he been contacted by this company. This sounds very much like a scam to me.