Westbury Ventures

Stick to your guns. If they want paid, they will take your payments. Do not agree to more than you can afford. Try and get their physical address and send in money orders or certified checks. You are lucky you are only getting e-mails and no threatening phone calls. I say stick to your guns and keep demanding they take your offer. If they want your money, eventually they will cave and accept your terms.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH---The lovely Westbury Ventures.........I filed complaints against them because they refused to work with me and they were charging me 570.00 on a 300.00. I have paid back close to 180.00 (or so) I filed against them with my Attorney General office and last week I got a call from them saying that they wanted to settle because they received my complaint. After much of ME being in charged I am paying back "just the principal" and the remaining balance I owe is 161.00. I am paying them back in MONEY ORDERS ONLY! She didnt like that but I won in the end. Like Steelers said, Stick to your guns...DONT BACK DOWN. If they refuse I would file complaints.....

This company is such a scam. How did you file the complaint when I don't have the city and state where they are located nor an address?

Wes,

Try this

Westbury Ventures
2756 N. Green Valley Parkway Ste 870
Henderson, NV 89014-2120


(800) 757-0122

Hi Guys, Does anybody have a working number for them? I can not find their number anywere and I am going through the same thing as many of you.

8008596439 is the number assoicated with the withrdawl they made from my account.

Westbury Ventures is terrible!! I am dealing with them now actually. They told me I owed them $1300 and that I could make payments to them in 5 monthly installments, but the only way they would accept payment was via bank account. I didn't know then what I knew now, so I asked my dad for help since my bank account was closed due to overdrafts. The aggreenment was that Westbury would deduct $258.00 a month for 5 months. When they started taking unauthorized multiple payments from my dad's bank account I was furious!! My dad has since recovered the $380 dollars they took out over a course of two days, but I am still dealing with the "Emails" from a Marquitta Lowe "April 9, 2007

ksinansis, I got the same letter for them. See the thread "Is this illegal." I have been fighting with them all week. They are trying really hard to make my life heii. I have been given some great advice in that thread and it can probably help you, too.

Here is the thread I was referring to. What state are you in and how much was your loan for? How much have you paid them so far?

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/settlement/about25793.html

This is the email I received today:

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These are the same people who tell me that things are:

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I just forwarded my above email to the AG in Kentucky.

It was quiet for a while...but here is what they've just sent me... its a Brad Ragan / Sharon Williams combo email, but it's quite polite.

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sswett-I got the same email yesterday, and another one later in the day, and yet another one today. Have you overpaid them? The only difference in my letter and yours is they said if I paid them $200 then they would make arrangements with me but I only legally owe them $140 so I am making no such deal. I sent them a response telling them again my state laws, how much I legally owe, etc. and I refuse to speak to them on the phone because I don't trust them.

I legally owe them ZERO!!! The only thing about Brad Ragan is that he calls my boss. Luckily - nothing happened while I was out yesterday....since I'll be here the rest of the week, I guess I'll just let the emails fly...knowing that the phone will ring immediately following. I'm drafting something now...

HOpe you had a great weekend Sass!!

WOW...the collection tactics of some of these companies! Things are going to blow up in your face?? Sounds like terroristic threats. This will lead to a significant jump in the amount you owe??? Wow.

Yeah every time I email these guys the phone starts ringing immediately afterwards. I CANNOT STAND THIS COMPANY!!! I hate them as much as Leah hates GFSIL. Yeah Leah I thought of that when I read my letter too....how can the amount we owe jump significantly????? sswett-did you file an AG complaint against them? I would think they would get the hint sooner or later?

I received the exact same email. Word for word. I too, would like to hear some suggestions since I alreayd paid them $730.00 already. Not to mention they have this interesting habit of making payment arrangments ONLY through a checking account and then taking multiple unauthorized debits from the account.

Brad is making illegal threats, and in some cases attempting or making unauthorized withdrawals from people's accounts. Maybe somebody should take copies of his threats and press charges against him with their local police. There will be an investigation and you have your proof of threats which is illegal. Perhaps filing charges of extortion and theft.

Thanks Steelers. I'm sure the banks fraud investigation department will have a go at them too!

He is making threats in an attempt to collect money, he is also making false threats in order to accomplish this. That is called extortion. And there are collectors out there who have been charged, found guilty, and given prison terms for doing this to debtors, the last one was located in Arizona.

Is he considered a collector? When he works for the company that loaned out the money originally?

He doesn't have to be a collector, he is contacting you on behalf of the company he is employed by and illegally making threats on their behalf to collect money.

The letter outlines that this isn't a threat though?

Did he make reference to "Things will blow up in your face" in any previous communications? That is the type of threat I am talking about, and the threats to have fraud charges filed and arrest, those are threats if he made them, that is what you would file charges on him for. Also, who is he to decide what is "Cultural". I noticed he said to settle this in a cultural manner. There are so many cultures in our country today, whose culture is he talking about? His, yours, something he saw and liked on the Discovery Channel? That confuses me. Whose culture does he want to settle this under?

ha ha on that cultural thing! Maybe I can pay them back in roopies?

He hasn't threatened me, like he has Sarah, but I'm sure its coming. I've been very nice to him, but he's been quite the arse to me. In my draft to him, I reminded him that we HAD payment arrangements, but he defaulted when his company took $400 from my account (which wasn't authorized). I'm kind of tired of fighting with them. but I won't give up.

These people are horrible. I actually claimed bankruptcy in 06 and have faxed VICTORIA SUTHERLAND @800.859.6439. My papers several times. She keeps calling me at work and sending emails over and over. Today when I informed her again about the bankruptcy and to stop the calls.. she called me an ****and said she would call as much as she wanted. I am trying to find someone in charge of this company.

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Nikki that is terrible and what they are doing is illegal. Is there a way that you could have your bankruptcy attorney call ths person and tell them you no longer owe them anything? If it was included in your bankruptcy and your bankruptcy is discharged they are not allowed to call you anymore.

Everyone in this company is crazy. I got the whole "blow up in your face" like, too. and that I better start working another job because I was going to have to pay for this loan and then some. They are rude. I had to change my phone number and then I just dealt with them by email. I contacted the BBB and my AG, and low-and-behold, things blew up in their face, and the account was marked as paid in full!

They changed their tune once they realized how serious I was about things.

Congrats Sarah!!!!! They haven't contacted me since last week! I'm glad it all worked out for you!

Congrats, Sarah. I am so happy that they marked you PIF :) Oh and Sharon-I thought maybe I was rid of them too because I hadn't heard from them in a week or so but they came back out of the woodwork with their threatening emails yesterday.

HMMM. I'll wait and see if I hear from them.

How are things going?

I'm presently in a battle with Westbury and I want to pay them but they are giving me a hard time about when and a mistake that I made on my social by one number. They are threatening to charge me with check fraud. They are very nasty people. I tried to send them $300 to settle a portion of the $400 debt and Wall Mart could not come up with the address that they gave me. The City and State came up as Kansas City, Kansas. I still want to pay them but I have no idea where to send the money. I sent in complaints about them to PA Attorney General and FTC.

they took 325 from my acct without and letters or oemails or calls. i have never taken a payday loan from this acct or with the bank im at now. i filed a fraud claimand closed the acct they are opening a new one with a new number

This is so weird!! I was just "googling" around on the computer, typed in the google address box one of the Westbury Ventures' account manager's names to see what "dirt" I could get on him or the company proper, when I came across this forum- FUNNY HOW THINGS TURN OUT!!! Anyway, I too, was a "victim" of Westbury Ventures. My account manager, a Troy Pasley, first started sending me email after email after email, then letter, after letter, after letter about some payday advances I received from this one on-line company and they didn't get their payment- blah blah blah! Like some of the people on this forum, my bank account too was closed out due to overdrafts and NSF, so I couldn't pay these people. I do remember sending the payday advance company an email explaining my situation to them, but it was to no avail!! They never responded. Time went on, and I totally forgot about them; until Troy Pasley came into the picture. I sent the company, a LTS Management or something, my installment payments via Moneygram, and called with the confirmation number or emailed the confirmation number to them. Just last week, I received in the mail from Mr. Pasley a letter telling me that my account for the one payday loan was paid off. However, I still owe $150 for the other one. Troy never responded to an email that I sent him in reference to a demand for payment email that was sent to me sometime around last month. I sent them an email asking them to tell me what my balance was, because I wasn't going to send them anymore money until I knew where I stood balance-wise. So when that letter came, I sent another email to Pasley and still no response. He called my house yesterday and I wasn't at home, so I called him today. He was suprisingly nice! I thought I was going to have to "tell him off", but the exact opposite happened. So I worked an arrangement with him telling him that I would have to stretch the payment of the $150 in installments of two paychecks. By the way, if anybody reading this has had run in's with a company named "Jackson-Phillips LLC", that's an collection agency somewhere in Florida. I did some research on these people because they called my job yesterday and made threats telling my human resources manager that they were calling about me on a "disturbance call". The people in HR thought that they were the police! I called my local police dept. and asked them about this, and they told me that if they were investigating a disturbance call they would have sent one of their officers to the job site, which led me to believe BILL COLLECTOR!! I sent the attorney general in Florida, Bill McCollum an email about these people. If you have any run in's with these people let Mr. McCollum know because they were taken to court in Florida for illegal practices used in collecting money. I found this out on the aol.com journal's site. The attorney general's web site is ag.mccollum(at)myfloridalegal.com.

I was forwarded a voicemail message left on a main business phone from A toll Free # 1-866-859-6439. I was extremely upset to find that the message left at my place of employment was of a personal nature. His message was that he was calling ???????concerning Internet Fraud and that I or my attorney should contact the number.??????? He claimed that he was not aware it was a business phone although the recording states it clearly.

3 minutes prior to above referenced phone call I had called that same toll free number which they stated as Westbury Ventures. When I asked the customer rep what type of business this was he ignored me and asked for my SSN, given the fraudulent attempt on my bank account (which is what initiated the phone-call to Westbury) I was not about to disclose the information. He asked for my name, I again asked what type of company this was and he ignored me so I told him I would call back. 3 minutes later the personal message was left on the business phone. I had not given my phone number so I am presuming Caller ID was used.

I had received the toll ????????free phone number from my bank the same day, following an inquiry into unauthorized charges attempted on my bank account. My bank only had a phone number as a source for the ACH withdrawal attempts although I incurred NSF and OD fees over the last 3-4 weeks. I did not recognize or had authorized these amounts to this company ???????? Westbury Ventures.

In addition, I received an out of ordinary e-mail claiming they were from my bank and alerting me of ???????Unauthorized Access attempts??????? with a full message requesting me to update my information by going into a link ( I did not recognize ) or they would place a hold on my funds .The e-mail had the bank????????s logo and the sender claimed they were from the bank's online services. First, my bank does not correspond in that matter for security reasons. Second, the bank does not contact me via e-mail nor do they have this one, they only alert via mail per my request. Third, my bank does not request me to forward personal information . After some investigation, the ISP information was verified, then verified with the bank and it was not a legitimate bank alert or message but found to have been coming from one of your company names.

I have filed formal written compaints with the FTC, State Attorney Generals - in Nevada - current address and in my state, my bank for identity theft, internet fraud and several violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, in addition to the letter mailed to them. I am waitng for a response.
Note: They also have a history of financial code violations in the State of California Department of Corporations under sevreal aka's!

they took money from my account without even notifying me, i haven't received any emails nor phone
calls from these people,but they went in my account and overdrew it.

They stated I had a loan for $100 back in 2003 I have no idea what they are talking about they got ahold of my bank account information and have deducted a payment for 130.00 one for 350.00 and 2 days later another for 350.00. I am contacting my bank and the police on fraud and theft charges.

These guys are crazy they made unauthorized charges to my account. I spoke with troy pasley he was very rude. Does anyone have his email address?

Can they reallly get ahold of your bank account information and deduct money? I just received an email from them saying they were going to get my information and TAKE the money. I had to close my previous account because they started deducting all kinds of money and now I owe the bank money for that account. I have since opened another account to at least be able to live and work out of. I have offered to make payments to this company but they refuse. I don't know what to do at this point.. Does anyone have any advice?

I have just experienced an unauthorized withdraw from a new checking account that was never associated with any payday loans until the last 30 days. My assumption is that Westbury searches the payday loan systems for anyone who still owes them money from a past unpaid loan and pulls that information and automatically takes it. Be forewarned that this could happen to any of us. I had a payday loan from over 3 years ago that they are trying to collect on, but I have had NO correspondence from them until this unauthorized withdraw from my checking account. Be wary!!!

The Pay day loans that you have within the last 30 days could well be with an affiliate of Westbury and they could have gotten your info that way.

These people our out of control.. They just hit my account for 390.00 without authorization.. My account is through a federal credit union and I am hoping that they will put the funds back on my account. fill out a stop payment at your bank to stop the electron funds transfer. I have done that in the past and my bank honored the problem and gave the money back.

they're charging me 380 dollars and I NEVER received any money is this legal?

Of course it's not legal!

Get with your bank's branch manager and fraud department, and your local police. Immediately.

Does anyone have an address for these people?

Westbury Ventures
2756 N. Green Valley Parkway Ste 870
Henderson, NV 89014-2120


(800) 757-0122