Put academy collections in your search on your computer, read the article, they were fined by the government 2.5 Million Dollars for harassing and threatening people, file a complaint.
I RECEIVED A CALL A WORK FROM A VERY RUDE WOMAN WHO STATES SHE HAD A CLAIM IN HER OFFICE. WHEN I TOLD HER I WOULD BE WILLING TO SEND PAYMENTS TOWARD THE CLAIM, SHE TOLD ME THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE. I TOLD HER I DIDNT HAVE A HOUSE OR ASSETS SHE COULD TRY TO SEIZE, AND SHE GOT EVEN MORE RUDE. ISNT ILLEGAL FOR A CREDITOR TO HARRASS SOMEONE AT THEIR WORKPLACE? WHERE DOES IT SAY I HAVE TO BE TREATED SO RUDELY WITH SUCH DISRESECT? I HUNG UP ON HER BECAUSE HER ONLY PURPOSE TO CALL ME WAS HARRASSMENT.
Received a call from this number 8 times in the last 2 days...Everytime I answer, no one says anything. There's an awkward silence for about 10 seconds then I hang up.
The one call I did receive and there WAS a person, he was "So and so from whatever collection agency"...Telling me I have an outstanding balance of $1200, and then asked, "Are you going to make the full payment today by credit or check by phone?" To which I replied, "I'm not going to make any payments today, tomorrow, next month or ever!" "Why?" He asked. I Said, "because I don't know you, know what this money is owed for and don't trust your hindoo [***]...There is nothing on my credit report about me oweing money." I then hung up.
Why do collection agencies always put people on the phone who can barely speak English? I have a hard time trusting people from outside the US with "Money I may/or may not owe". It's like, instead of getting those emails that I won the Nigerian lottery and send all your info now to claim your money, they're doing it over the phone...Or at least that's how I feel.
I listened to their automated voice mail crap and selected that it was the wrong number. Don't know if it will help but I am on a cell phone and have the ability to select a no ring as their ID sound so they won't be ringing me anymore. I also have conditional call forward to my home phone on which I have a very fancy caller ID system. If they get forwarded there they then get forwarded to any number I select. For now it is the IRS. But I change it every few weeks to some other govt agency. I think maybe the government will take action against them sooner or later because when the call goes to them it goes through just as the original did to me with the originator's caller ID. The govt agency will have no record of the forwarding.