Allied Interstate Inc: Do they harass consumers quite often?

I know Allied dialer system and quite frankly unless you have a cell phone with an eastern area code and your live in another time zone, I dont believe it. (Just talked to a friend that works with them.) Their dialer and system wont dial out of time zone phone numbers...

It wont get to court....max violation is $1000.

I've been getting NUMEROUS calls from them, which I usually ignore. But today at 7 am really really ticked me off. So I answered, silence for about 10 sec. then some one just said their name. I said who are you, he repeated his name. I said who do you work for, he refused to give me who he worked for. So I google'd the # and told him I see he works for Allied Interstate, I assume a collection agency. He told me to give him the phone # I was receiving the calls from. Once he searched my phone # he told me who he thought I was, which I am not. And the address he thought I lived at, which I do not. So he said he would remove my # from the system. I informed him that my phone # is on the national no call list and it is a $10,000 fine if they EVER call me again, with that he said there was no reason for that and my # was being removed. Assholes....

Collection agencies are exempt from the no call list.

I just recieved a phone call from my LANDLORD of all people, saying that he recieved 4 calls for me this morning starting in the eary hours waking him up. I don't even have his home phone number! Finally after the fourth call he said he knows me and took down her name and number, it was from Allied Interstate. I have tried to call them back and it rings and rings....Does the cease and desist letter really work?

Yeah, it will work for Allied. Wont stop the next CA who handles the account though.

Actually, no it won't. They received a "cease telephonic communication as it is inconvenient at any number" from me, then proceeded to call 42 times on my cell for the next week.

I offered to settle the impending suit for 64,000 bucks (42 x 1500, + 1000 FDCPA) and an elimination of the alleged debt they never validated per state and federal law. No response yet.

All these collection agencies and credit card companies and banks all sucks. Specificly Bank of America. They are the reason why I am filing for Chapter 7.

In your case as well as mine,I think they're on a fishing(phishing) expedition. I get calls from 1-800-935-5152 every day and they leave the same harassing message. The kicker is they don't even ask for anyone they just start in with their tirade "This is Allied Interstate a collection agency..." When you call them, they flat out refuse to give you any information, will not let you speak to a supervisor and are extremely rude. You'll notice they have an F rating from the BBB and numerous complaints against them. Good luck getting a straight answer or your number removed from their call list. They'll tell you they don't make mistakes.

To everyone who talks to these vultures over the phone, know that any verbal agreement you make isn't worth with the electrons it's transmitted on over the lines. EVERTHING must be done in writing. As per the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, once you send a certified, return receipt requested letter to them asking for proof of debt, they have 30 days in which to provide said proof of debt. But you can't wait - send that letter out ASAP. If they do not provide proof of the debt and still harrass you, then you have a strong complaint for the States Attorney General and possibly grounds for a lawsuit.

Most of these collection agencies are barely legal, hack outfits that buy computer printouts from companies. Most of the time, your name is just a line on a print out with little other information than the last known phone number.

Remember - NO COMMUNICATION BY PHONE. If they have you as a legitimate debt holder then they have your mailing address. DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFORMATION. If they don't have the proper information then it is most likely a scam.

This is only partly accurate. Once you inform a collection agency to stop calling you they must, by law, stop calling you. It's in the FDCPA. That doesn't mean they have to stop trying to collect on the debt, however.

They still are not subject to the No Calls List. You have to utilitze your rights under the FDCPA by requesting no calls in writing for residential numbers to be in effect.

Right, which does not conflict with what I posted earlier.

I work for a collection agency and I am tired of you deadbeats who don't pay your bills then whine and cry when people like me call you.

We are going to KEEP calling and calling until you pick up the phone and pay your debts like mature and responsible adults.

Don't answer? Cute. Send a cease and desist? Even cuter! We WILL get our money in the end -- and MORE! -- when we sue your deadbeat butt.

Idiot...you work for a collection agency. You "recommend" legal action, YOU loose your commision because it has to be forwarded to a law office.

Mature and responsible adults have to survive....rent, lights and yes, food take priority over you. Let me guess....you work for a collection agency in the Buffalo area?

No, I am not based in the Buffalo area, sorry. I work out of the country, and use an "Americanized" alias. However, that's a moot point.

I don't mind losing out on commission when it comes down to justice, and that is making a debtor pay what he or she owes.

Everyone has their own bills- food, electricity, heating.. However, a debt is another bill that musn't be taken any less lightly.

Oh so you are probably one of the law breakers out of india.


Since you dont live here you have not experienced how the economy has turned down. A lot of people cannot even cover their basic expenses. It is *** like you that turn them to bankruptcy...then neither you nor client gets a dime. That to me is justice.