Anyone ever heard of National Attorney collection services

If you do a search in the above search box, you will find a lot of info on them. You can read about the experiences that other members have had with them.

They can't charge you with anything. They violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by doing so. Debts are civil matters, not criminal. File a complaint with the CA state attorney generals office, the Federal Trade Commission, and the CA state Bar Association.

Here is how the better business bureau rates them:

We strongly question the company????????s reliability for reasons such as that they have failed to respond to complaints, their advertising is grossly misleading, they are not in compliance with the law????????s licensing or registration requirements, their complaints contain especially serious allegations, or the company????????s industry is known for its fraudulent business practices.

Here is their website, tell me if this looks professional, especially the gif or flash image on the right column:

nationalcollect.com/

Also, what state do you live in? Both internet and store front payday loans are heavily regulated in states they are allowed and are illegal in quite a few states.

LOL! Yeah, really professional looking animation all right! What @$$-Clowns!

I also like how they conveniently display all the major credit cards accepted, also how to locate your routing/transit and account number on your check right there on the main page. How sweet of them. Right, like I'm going to give them that information.

I'd be willing to bet there isn't a single "attorney" employed at National Attorney Collection Services. The name of the company alone should be a violation of the fdcpa. Some CA's seem exceptionally creative when it comes to thinking up names that try to appear misleading or intimidating.

I could be wrong, though, there may be an actual attorney employed there. I would be sure to ask their name and where he/she is licensed to practice law.

I have been contact by this place with plenty of attitude. I was threaten with legal action from this place. the person that contact me claim he was a paralegal and represented an attorney. When I asked if they could fax me a letter on their company letterhead that is when the problems started. This place is shady. They do not follow the credit and collections act. Do not deal with these guys they are bad news.

I was just contacted by them I live in the state of MO and I was told that if I didn't make payment arrangements with them by tomorrow morning they would file legal against me. They want my checking acct. # and routing #

They contacted me last year and I ignored them. They gave up. Gave me the same bullshit story they gave you.

They contacted me last year and I ignored them. They gave up. Gave me the same bullshit story they gave you.

We have just started receiving calls from this agency, when we asked to have them put the settlement in writing they refused.?? We were willing to pay as long as we had something in writing, I spoke to three people before being told not to cal them anymore until I had the money to pay them and that they would not put anything in writing.?? To top it all off they wanted a credit card number, just a little suspicious of there practices.?? I am in the process of contacting the Fair Credit Bureau regarding this.?? If anyone knows any information please let me know.

Listen, I'm a bill collector, I collect for stu loans...also....I have done many diff credit card collections...I have years of experience here...

they just left a pending legal matter on my wifes cell phone...lol..several violations...cant wait to get this guy on the phone...they will pay my bill...lmao !

You don't know how happy I've been to find this forum. My mother just passed a few weeks ago and I've just been through so much lately. Worst comes to worst, I get a call from a creditor, which sounds like a a law office or something. I haven't contacted them back because I'm sort of afraid to. I have 3 kids to feed on a single income. I don't know what account they're calling to collect on, but I'm assuming it's old because I haven't had a credit card since I was 19 or 20 years old. I think they've been harassing my mother in law also, but she doesn't speak english. I don't have a detail of my credit report, just the free ones that I've ran a couple of months ago. I'm in California. Does anyone know the SOL for California? What should I do?

FYI...I posted this comment on another blog but got no reply and it's pretty urgent to me so please help.

Thank you!

I got a call from these guys yesterday at work. The guy told me if I did not pay I would be charged the time the amount I old, plus a 1500 fee to him, and would have to take a class worth $700. When I told him I would google the name of his company he got very upset. I told him not to call me at work anymore and he shout have a nice day and hung up.

Matthew brett Ewing at 851 n san Vicente blvd apartment 205, w Hollywood, ca 90069(who filed a chater 7 bankruptcy on 3-21-2009) and Derek Griffiths of 11761 Encino ave, Granada hills, ca 91344 (phone 818-631-8631)

they operate out of an apartment. the only client they work for is a company called money and more.

These people have been calling me as well. Said they were going to sue me for a payday loan i did not pay. When I asked for them to send me a bill or some kind of documentation they refused. So I ignore their calls, I will pay when I get a bill from them. Every other collection agency sends out bills, so why can't they? I told them to take me to court, they still have not done a damn thing and I am pretty sure they won't!!! Just ignore the calls, they always call me and the number shows withheld!!!

Reading all of your messages is really relieving in this situation. I actually did give thos creeps my info and they did take the correct amount of money from my checking account but I can not afford to pay the rest at this time. I've been called daily for about a month and a half and now I'm getting calls from their fraud dept.. what the heck!! Please send a reply to

Email address removed by Shazzers per the TOS.

I rec'd a call on Friday from two people, both with idian accents. Threating an officer would be at my door on monday to take me to jail and that they would call my family and friends as well as contact my employer and have me fired. I did file bankruptcy and there was a payday loan in there, they told me that Charpter 7 doesn't cover this. When I spoke to my attorney he said they were trying to scam me .....

There address is 6350 laurel canyon #410,north hollywood,ca 91606,owner name archie donovan

I just got a call from this place, I had a $500 payday loan they said they were taking me to court and that I had to pay 2600 plus my legal fees. He said the only way to avoid it is if I gave him $500 today otherwise my case is going to court. I told him I didn't have it so he asked me to borrow it from someone! LOL He gave me his number and told me to call him when I get the money.

I got a call from these clowns, paid my bill at the store where my account was still open. They told me that I still had to pay them, or they would subpoena me at work. I laughed at them and told them, to sue me. I have my reciept showing my account is at $0.

i just tried to look up there website @ nationalcollect.com and it says "under consruction" what national attorney office can afford to have there website down? I think these guys are full of it, and there practices are against the fair debt collection act...if they call again get all the information you can get from them, and let them know you will be reporting them,... bet they wont even give you an address... besides, you cant be sued for not paying, the payday company acknowledges that you may or may not have funds behind that check when you give it to them, they are holding that check as a promissary note that you will pay, so it cant be considered check fraud... have no worries

ive been recieving calls from an 818 number, regarding a case against me for a debt of 80 dollars not paid. They wont send me any paperwork on it. saying it has not processed . seems to me like a scam. the location given to me is:6350 laurel cannon blvd
North Hollywood, ca 91606. anyone with a similar situation please contact me email address removed per the TOS, by Shazzers

these people called me today. I don't know if they're real or not or if it's legal. I have 2 payday loans outstanding that I haven't been able to pay yet. Can they pursue me criminally in CA?

What is your are out of state? I have a loan and was told I would owe them $6500. Who do you report them to?

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My wife's son received a message from these people asking for my wife on a pending urgent matter.....they haven't even tried to contact my wife first ! I'm glad I'm doing a little research on this Mickey Mouse/Fraud operation...

these people just called me a very lovely lady named Leslie Herring, saying that I owe 500 dollars tommorow or I would be brought to court the very next day and have to pay 3 times the amount, I started asking for proof of my contract and she started to be rude until I agreed that I would pay the full ammount tommorow, thank god I found this forum.

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I received a message at WORK from National Attorney's. He said, he has a pending case with my name on it and he was just finishing up some paperwork. So, he wanted to reach out to me. It was a very polite message (which may be misleading) but I am NOT happy about receiving a call at work. After googling the company name and finding this forum, I am reluctant to return the call. I am pregnant and I cannot afford to get emotionally upset over an irrational caller. What should I do?

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These people called me too - same phone number - I called back - the guy was polite but pushy - told me an $800 payday loan would end up costing me over $4000 by the time they took me to court - gave me 24 hours to pay twice what I borrowed. I had been working with the payday company but when I asked for something in writing they stopped communicating and got these guys after me. I faxed him a copy of the letter I wrote them offering to pay certain payments per month, and I never heard back from him. I am worried they will cause me trouble at work though.
I had a similar incident with another company, but when I called back and asked to speak to someone else, the second person was nice as could be and helped me out and now it's all straight.

I just got a call at work from this company...at first i was a little surprised and thought that maybe this is like forreal that it was some attorney's secretary or soemthing. But thanks to google and this forum....i'm just gonna ignore them until they send me something in writing. I so agree with the person who said ....any creditable collections agency will send you a bill if you do not respond. So thanks...appreciate everyones post!

I just received a restricted call from National Attorney's regarding a pending legal matter and to give them a call at 877-202-5736 x253. I ofcourse googled before I did anything and found this wealth of info (thank you). I wasn't going to call the # back, but now I wonder if it would be worth the trouble of calling and letting them know I am forwarding the name and phone # to my attorney and they can deal w/him. Any suggestions?

I used to work at a collection agency and we had Attorney letterhead that was FAKE we would send to people after our 5th phone call attempt. Or after the 3rd default on a payment arrangement. It was just really crase and the only successful guys were the ones that were lucky enough to get people who really wanted to pay the bill they owed...otherwise after so many attempts the account was closed and written off and packaged to sell to another collection agency!
These guys left me a message today threatening court action and so forth and so on and I will NOT give them the satisfaction of even answering the phone!!

Ok, so these people just left my mom a message telling her I needed to call them to stop legal action against me. So I called the guy back, Louis Vorbeck, (ie:jerk), I only verified my name. He said that he couldn't give me any information about what company was had me at collections until I verified the last four of my ssn. Which I did not. But then proceeded to tell me that he would be faxing info to my employer to subpoena me to court. He could "threaten" me with that, but not tell me who the originator of my debt was with? And yes, I do have an outstanding payday loan out there, a couple of them actually. But I was in a bad situation. My son and I were in the process of leaving a very abusive relationship and I had to get out. I needed the money to leave town. Anyway, right now I am in the process of paying some back, but I can't do all at once. First, is it illegal for him to have told my mom about "legal action" that is to be taken against me?....and second, if they do take me to court, should I file an answer back? I have a feeling the case is from a loan company who sent money back to me that I attempted to pay them. I wrote a letter to all the loan companies I had debts with, explaining my situation. I also include, albeit very small, "good faith" payment. They returned it to with a note attached stating they couldn't accept anything that small. I tried to send it to them again, to show an attempt to pay, and got it returned again.

I rcvd my first phone call on yesterday from some guy at 877 202 5736 ext 270 who told me basically the very same thing im reading on this forum...if I do not pay them back my settlement amount of 1500 on a 700 loan that I will be sued for check fraud for an amount of 4500 which is absolutely insane to me. If I had that kind of money to throw around I would not have needed the loan in the first place. He told me to find some people to borrow the money from and call him back today. When I did to tell him that I had no luck, he told me he can break my payments up into 3 payments...500 bucks a pay period. I didnt want to laugh in his face but it almost happened. At this point I explained that I can do maybe 100 a payperiod which is a serious stretch but an attempt to take care of the debt. He would not accept it and insisted if I cant do 500 a pay period then Im going to court. I told him I will make some calls and find out what my options are and will call him back before they close 5pm pacific....8pm my time. Then I found this forum. Since reading this forum, I have called the FTC @ 877 382 4357 to file a complaint against them. After giving her my information the rep explained to me that I will rcve a confirmation # in my email and it will explain to me what they can and cant do. When asked if action will be taken against them for this maddness, she said only if they receive enough complaints about them will an investigation be opened against them. At that time a class action law suit will be drawn up on behalf of the plaintiffs (which means us). So Im going to get this ball rolling. I dont have a problem paying what I owe, but Im working too hard to make ends meet in this recession to allow some company to rape my income.

They are breaking every law of the Fair Credit Debt Collection act. Look it up and if they call again, ask them for their bar number. You might let them know that you can sue them as well

Hey these people called my daughter and threatened her stating if I didn't call them I was going to be in serious trouble,when I called this place the lady I spoke with was rude,and when I told her I wasn't giving her my debit card number or no kind of number over the phone she got furious with me and told me they would turn it over to legal,then I called back and spoke with her so called manager,same thing and when I asked him to send me something in writing he refused,he said I would get a subpoena,then when I asked for the attorney's name that was even worse,then he said I will see you in court.He wouldn't even tell me where they was located all he wanted was a debit or credit card number.

I have received a call from these people today, and they left a long and detailed message on my cell phone, which does not have any sort of greeting with my name or anything to indicate to them that they are not providing my info to a perfect stranger, which is a total violation! Also, I am in TX and the number they called from was a TN number, which when i redialed it, said that it was no longer in service! Amusing to say the least! The only unfortunate part is that I am sure there are people out there that fall for these unfair tactics.

These people contacted me saying that I need to contact them because I have legally matter to clear. I called back and it was for $100 that I was willing to clear I ask him for something in writing and that when the problem started. I said you must have something in front of you if you know I owe you. I left him with this line, if it is not written it does not exist, "there's no legal proof" if you are a legal attorney then you know this. Guess what he hang up on me.....LMAF

They have been calling me for weeks on my phone and at least four times a day at work even when I am not there. They have even spoken with my manager. After reading all these posts I asked them to fax or send me proof of my debt and they would not provide it and they also did not want to provide the attorneys license # or their state bar #. After asking all of this the guy replied that they are just the creditor that the company sends their debts to when they can not collect and that he's not trying to collect. He will just proceed with court proceedings. When I asked him what company he received by debt from he couln't tell me. He told me if I didn't pay now it would triple when it gets to court. Something doesn't sound right with this company. I work at a payday company and they are always sending out emails letting us know to be careful because of so called company's doing things like this and it fits all the descriptions we receive.

I have been getting calls from a so called National Attorneys Office. SO I called them back to find out what it was about and it was for a small payday loan. THe start out by saying to write the case# down then they pretend to be an attorney by saying please hold while I go get your file while you can clearly hear many call center reps in the back. I admit I do owe but I need to be harassed for small payday loan that was under $600. I have enough stress trying to raise a 13 yr old and 6 month old while working a low paying job and trying to finish school. I live in MO and I believe there is a law against this. I am going to check into it and you all know anything else please blog on here. Thanks!

I worked for them. The company is crap. No proof, we were all trained to lie. They should be sued. All the people you talk to on the phone are not parallegals. They're people who found the job through craigslist so you cant be mad at them, be mad at the company. National Attorneys Collection Services is a joke and cant send you to court. I suggest if you have a debt, go to the place to pay it off, NOT through these dummies.

i too contacted national attorneys today asking for a bill. spoke with a David Michaels, who states they do not send out bills, they just collect. i advised them of their bad status with better business bureau and all the negative comments about them on the internet and he gave no explanation for them. i then stood firm on the request that i receive a bill or they would not receive any payment from me. he hung up.

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I was also hesitant to return their call but after talking with my lawyer...he did advise that it was better to pay back the original loan...this company may come off a little firm and create some fear...but in actuality, not paying back payday loans can get very expensive....its always best to pay back your debts before things get too uncontrollable

These people have been calling me they gave me bogus account information. The Banking numbers they gave me were for Bank of America and the peoples names were not mine they lived in Houston I'm in San Antonio. Also they refused to produce paperwork for me. Shady shady shady! I made a police report when the first girl called me....

They said I got 500.00 from an online loan. Which brought up red flags to me anyways because you need a signature to get the money. It was with Cashadvance through bank of america. I have 6 bank acounts all of which are through credit unions and military ones at that. I have direct deposits I NEVER CASH CHECKS THROUGH ACE OR CASH ADVANCE yet alone do online loans.... Fishy!!! so now after getting a call from the first girl I am getting a call from a so called attorneys office... I've made a police report but dont know where else to go from here. I'm not paying them crap. I will call this lawyer tomorrow to see what he says but I will only ask for his name and bar# if he doesn't produce legitamate information I will ignore the phone calls. It's not on my credit report and I put a fraud watch on all three bureuas (sp). One last thing they aren't even contacting me through my phone but my parents house phone. I was looking for a job 4 months ago and applied on craigslist everyday. I used my parents house line on apps.... These guys are just Scammers.

i just got a phone call from them stating that they will not make payment arrangements with me and if i don't call them back within 24 hours with a concrete date that i can pay this account in full then they will turn this account over to the attorney and he will take me to court. same old song and dance that they have told some others on this page. he did get me scared though.

I got a call from these low life scammers but only verified my last 4 digits of my social like a dumb ass - and I think also my address. I asked if they had a website and the lady gave me an absurd answer "We do but it is not for the purpose you're looking for." I knew from then on that she was bullshitting. BLAH, did I give them enough information to ruin my credit? I did NOT give them any banking account numbers, place where I work, or anything like that... PLEASE HELP!!!