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!!!!
Is this a legitimate company?They called me with threats of filing a lawsuit against me and threatned to confiscate all funds in my bank acct which I have nothing in it due to someone withdrawing 2000.00 w/o my permission and the bank will not cover the loss.
The following information as to how an expedited complaint with the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs was extracted from: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-781-3445/4
Send a statement VIA USPS to:
Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs
2 Martin Luther King Drive, S.E., Suite 356,
Atlanta, Georgia 30334-4600
or fax to 404-651-9018
Describe your contact with this company and their practices, using the form located at: http://www.georgia.gov/vgn/images/portal/cit_ ... mplaintform.pdf for expedited processing by their office.
It is extremely important to their case to include in your statement if the phone representative claimed to be an attorney, claimed that the firm is a law firm or alluded to the firm being a law firm or having lawyers on staff or something about a network of attorneys that work for their firm. Also end your statement with the line below:
I respectfully request that the firm Vandenburg, Chase & Associates be prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law pursuant to 15 USC §§ 1692 § 814 and State laws regarding Fair Debt Collection Credit Practices.
the address I found is
Vanderberg Chase & Associates
887 W. Marietta Street, NW Suite J102
Atlanta, Ga 30318-5266
Also,
6 Councourse Pkwy NE, Suite 1500
Atlanta, Ga 30328-6182
Write a letter to both addresses. Send them certified mail with receipt requested. That way you have a signature on file note in the letter other than to stop calling you that they have 30 days to comply with the amount of the debt and the original debtor. Look on line if you need some kind of wording on how to write a cease and desist letter.
I believe you ae missing the point A..H.., we had dealt with reputable collection agencies, legit agencies. These are not legit or else they would do things by the law. They are harrassing my 82 year old mother, whose credit cards have all $00 balance because she does pay her bill, does not like debts. This Foney, S.l.i.m.e.y, agency will not return my calls, they will not discuss this matter with me, I guess because when I left them the message I left my name and told them that I was an attorney respresenting this client. They will not call me but keep harrassing my mother. I am in the process of sending out the cease and desist letter and I am reporting them to the FTC, BBB, AMC, and my legislature for this crime against a Senior Citizen and will go as far as I possibly can to stop this from happening to someone elses parent.