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I dealing with a JW Lomax and yes they are rude. They have threatened to take me to court for a missing music instrument. The instrument has been turned in to the school and I had ask them that I'm clearing this issue up with the school and music store where the instrument was rented. He didn't want to hear that so now I will have to wait and see if they send me to court.

akc1979 · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:25 pm Subject: Allen, Lewis and Unprofessional

Do not give this company any account info. This company has 66 complaints in 36mo from the Better Business Bureau. My altercation with them went like this: A man named Mike Knight calls my sister in law asking for me and at the end of the message says "call me back, good luck" GOOD LUCK??? What professional attorney says that at the end of a phone call. I called him at the 800 number and he claimed that I owed for some violin I never rented in 1998, and it is 2007 so we are well out of the SOL. I asked if the company had collected any form of id such as a license so we could get things cleared and he said no. Then he started in on how this was effecting my credit and asked if I have ever looked at that. I stated I look every month because I am in the market for a house and I have never seen anything on there. He got rude and stated how they were going to come after me if I didn't pay today. I asked what I needed to do to get this taken care of and he stated I could just give him my bank account info. (WHAT??) I stated that was not going to happen and he needed to mail something in writing. He was livid with me at this point and said it wasn't possible. I brought it to his attention that no legitimate attorney collects money and doesn't send letters. I stated my attorney would be in contact. I had my boyfriend call as my attorney and he left a message. Mike Knight never called him but 2 months later has tried contacting me stating I have not been cooperative. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY!!

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:47 pm Subject:

I'm willing to bet Mr Knight is not an attorney, he's just one of the call-center collectors. And if he told you he was an attorney (and is not), he broke the law. The actual attorneys at these firms (if indeed there are any there) would very rarely if ever call you themselves. Unless you live somewhere like Ohio (where the SOL is 15 years), the SOL has no doubt run. Check your credit report, and if there's something funny from these people, you might have a case for violations of the FCRA as well. In the meantime, if it were me, I'd send a cease communications letter. If he calls again after that, you have further grounds to sue.

Katie Hughes · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:26 pm Subject:

I just recently received a phone call from a William Blair. He has also called my cell phone and stated that he wants to talk to me or my attorney of record AND he ended the call "Good Luck"!!! Sound familiar anyone? I am glad I found this website-- Thank you to all of you who posted your experiences. It's been a big help for me. Any advice on how to find out if this company is licensed in my state to collect debts and what the SOL in MS is? I am new to this so any and all help would be appreciated.

James1 · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:06 am Subject:

Mr. Knight is quite a case. He threatened to take me to court, used personal insults, hung up on me 3 times, and even suggested I SELL the item I was returning so I could make payments to him for back rental.

The entire time I was very calm and helpful, simply stating I wanted to set up an affordable payment plan. He wanted nothing to do with that at all. He also kept changing the amount owed. So I asked for a validation in the mail and he said absolutely not...and hung up again.

I had to call back two more times to get a validation sent out, from someone else at their office of course. In the end I just went to the original company and took care of it with them.

I would have loved to have recorded all our phone conversations...but oh well.

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:57 am Subject:

Katie,

I was contacted by an Oliver Winslow several months ago. I got the same kind of threats. He told me he didn't care if I paid the debt or not because I was going to get sued by the original creditor. He acted like he was doing me a favor until I asked for validation. He hung up on me a few minutes later. I kept asking him questions and I don't think he like that either. I recorded the whole conversation because I can do that in my state.

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:59 am Subject:

James,

They don't follow the fdcpa and they have been under investigation in Florida for quite some time now. I asked for validation too and was told they didn't have to do that. They wouldn't even tell me if they were a collection agency or not. Yeah, like I'm going to wire them money Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:55 pm Subject:

hey Katie, what state are you in? i think most states minus California and NY that does not allow you to record phone conversations for your well being in court, hmm

ca441970 · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:56 pm Subject: Allen, Lewis and associates.

Yes, they are a rip off company. They tried to strogarm money from me saying they are lawyers and such, which is ILLEGAL, and told me if I didn't send them so much money by the next day by 7pm they had to file me with the courts... A joke. I supposidly owe for a repo car for $6000, these fools tell me I owe $11,200!!! DO NOT DEAL WIT THEM, THEY ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION WITH Bill McCullum, the Florida Attorney General. They just resurfaced on me this week after 6 months of nothing from them... Ya it sure was imprative I send that money, huh? SCAMMERS, And liars. I filed a complaint on them, along with many other people. Email them at their AOL address... Like a real debt collector would be @aol.com....

Jewellie · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:13 am Subject: James message

"I asked for validation too and was told they didn't have to do that.

Unfortunately, James, they're right. They only have to send validation IF YOU PUT YOUR REQUEST IN WRITING WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE FIRST CONTACT CALL OR LETTER.

A lot of the sites out there don't tell you that part. If you don't do that, then the debt and calls to you are good if they follow the rest of the laws. I don't know if they are doing that or not.

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:52 am Subject:

Jewellie...they have to validate the debt. The CA has to prove the debt is yours...if not at this time..they will in a court of law. People should not pay a bill without validation..regardly of time frame.

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