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Webmedx/Department of Labor cold call??? - GoneWebbie

Posted: Jan 27, 2011

Just curious,

Has anyone, working for Webmedx, received an anaymous call, from the Department of Revenue, requesting information about your salary at Webmedx, stating they received your information as part of a list of employees from Webmedx???

I declined to answer as the individual could/would not provide any identifying information, including name, and the number was blocked.

Please advise as I am concerned about possible identity theft, especially in light of the fact that I am not employeed with Webmedx.

I would call MTSO and see if they can explain this. - nm

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Maybe call bank and credit cards to inform that you - might have ID theft issue. Also SM

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be sure to document those calls, better yet, follow up with an email. so if the worse does happen you have proof that you warned them.

No, I haven't, and I agree with calling WMX about this. - Hope it is nothing. NM

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If they're being investigated, and they know it, - most likely theyll clam up and say nothing. nm

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I believe I would handle this call in this manner. - SignMeMT

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If anyone else gets a call like this, ask the caller for a phone number and their name, and tell them you will call them back. If you place the call and it appears valid, ask what questions they have. You don't have to answer at this point. This may be an investigation on the Department of Labor's part for an issue someone reporting a company for things like no overtime pay (we know that never happens with MTSOs - sigh) or IC or employee status, etc.

If you read posts, you would know OP didnt ever work - for the company she was asked about.

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Her name implies she worked there at one time. nm - anon

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If you arent going to read the post before you post a reply - you end up looking silly. nm

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OP said that she does not work for Webmedx, she did not say - sm

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...that she never worked for Webmedx. Her nickname of "GoneWebbie" implies that she did at one time, work for Webmedx, and is not gone from the company.

No, I really don't feel silly at all! - SignMeMT

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OP has now posted below that she did work for this company previously. You assumed she did not for some unknown reason and just had to hop right on and condemn me for not reading her post and that it made me look silly. HMMM, who looks silly now?

I 'assumed' she didnt work there cause she said she - wasnt employed there. Silly you. nm

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Former Webbie - FormerMT

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I previously worked for Webmedx, (thankful to be gone, I might add), but am no longer employed so wondering how my name would even end up on a list to begin with.

If past employees are being asked to furnish - pay info, my guess would be - sm

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that there's a BIG impending investigation of them (thus the need for past employee records, to see how long whatever they're investigating has been going on). A little complaint might just involve current workers, but my past experience with the D.O.L. over nonpayment and non-insured status (when I was told by employer I WAS insured), was that they left NO STONE UNTURNED. I filed with D.O.L. after I left the company. My claim was small, probably a couple hundred dollars. But according to what my co-workers there told me later, D.O.L. basically came in there had everyone stop what they were doing, and tore the place apart.

So no, this doesn't sound like an unusual M.O. for the D.O.L. Proof that companies that cheat their workers often get what they deserve in the end.

But the caller did not identify self. That's not how federal - government works. VERY suspicious. NM

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This happened with Softscript a couple of years ago. sm - TC

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Apparently they were not paying OT etc correctly. I ended up getting a nice check out of the blue about 6 months after that call.

back pay - Gone Webbie

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That would be nice, but I honestly do not expect a thing, the company never paid right in the first place, and boy what a lie about the 8.5 cpl for typing and all you ever get is 100% VRL, what crap and so was the pay, that was when and if work was available.

I hope you let the Labor Board know that! - Maybe you will finally get your money! n/m

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Please let us know how this plays out (sm) - MT

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I'm currently at Webmedx and am very curious. It could be legit, but you've got good instincts to question the caller. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the IRS is truly checking into Webmedx and other MT companies.

No other calls to report - Gone Webbie

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I have not received any further calls regarding the Department of Labor. I am just surprised this has not happened to other employees.

It might have. Not all of them come here. I wish you'd - MT

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call Webmedx just to see what they'd say about it. :) Curious!

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