hello,
My husband has been contacted also by Allied. They have never sent mail or contacted us at home, but have called my husbands work and told the HR dept if he didnt call that day, he would hear from them tomorrow in a bad way. This is the only time we have ever heard anything about them. When my husband got home and called, the man didnt want to tell him anything about the debt. They even told HR they were the DOE. Finally my husband found out they are trying to collect on a student loan that was dismissed in bankruptcy back in 1988!