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Janet Wilson Says You Have an Unserved Court Summons. There Is No Summons.

Episode 26

Janet Wilson Says You Have an Unserved Court Summons. There Is No Summons.

A caller posing as a county process server says a lawyer's office spent months trying to serve you a court summons and failed. You get a case number and one name to call back, Janet Wilson, at (844) 412-2359. The county and the caller change across reports. The callback number and the name do not. Real process servers never route a summons through a toll-free callback line.

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