WATCH OUT FOR THESE CRIMINALS....! I worked at this company and everything they do there is illegal. They purchase all of this debt and pay the collectors 20% per payment. They tell us to represent ourselves under false aliases and threaten check fraud by reciting the laws that govern the state that the debtor tive in. We used to refer to ourselves as "investigators" and pending warrants on every debtors answering machine, and threated to issue a summons by a local sheriff through the magistrate court. They are CLEARLY breaking the law. If they call you DO NOT PAY THEM...GET A RECORDER AND SUE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE WORTH!!!!
I had 5 messages fron different people saying that I will be aressted if the balance in not payed in full. Vandenberg Chase and associates also sent me a letter for someone elses account.
jsyk, i taked to the attorney general in iowa, and they are in the process of filing criminal charges against vandenberg and chase.when they tell your employer, or threaten jail, they are breaking the law. he said they have had several hundred complaints.
I too got the same threatening message. Thankfully I googled them and found a ton of postings about them. I did what you all said, filed a complaint with FTC, State Consumer Affairs and BBB. The number below for a fax is no longer a fax. Here is their new fax #4047681085.
Okay, what is really going on with this company? They keep calling my home phone requesting to speak with a man that is currenty married to my husband's ex-wife. My question is how did they get my phone number with connections to a person I know little about.
They have called from these 3 numbers
800-979-5645
615-622-0978
404-965-0007