getting calls from Allied Interstate!

Hi sheila

Welcome to the forums. As per the fdcpa law, debt collectors and creditors are allowed to contact the consumers for informing them about their debt. They are restricted from harassing the consumers for recovering the said debt. Check this thread below to know the violations done by Allied Interstate

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/fdcpa.html

You can ask them to validate the said debt because it is your legal right to know the complete details of it.

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/validation.html

They need to provide the complete information about the said debt before you make any payment arrangements with them.

You can send them a written letter through certified mail with return receipt requested. You can also mention that you refuse to be called by phone and prefer communication only by mail.

Regards
Roxette

We have gotten calls almost daily, sometimes several times daily, for more than a month. We never answer the phone when they call and they leave a message with the phone number. I have a common name and have had to deal with collection agencies before because of people with the same name have debts. The agencies are extremely rude not to mention very lazy - if they did ANY homework they could find out they had the wrong people. I do not plan to return their calls. They don't identify themselves or say why we should call. Caller ID identifies the company name and I looked it up on the Internet.

Send a cease and desist letter to allied interstate when you get completely sure of owing nothing to them. If the company is making a wrong contact with you, call the supervisor and ask your name to be removed from the system. Send your letter through certified mail with return receipt requested and exercise your legal rights. The company must stop contacting you further.

I'm in the same situation and have been getting daily messages from AI. I recently changed my phone number and I have a very common last name, so I am not returning their phone calls. I sound extremely young on the phone and have also been getting hang up calls. I don't have caller ID and I'm thinking about getting the service to see if these hangups are also AI. I don't want to call them back since I don't believe they are calling for me, but I want them to stop calling. After seeing all the negative posts about the company, you can understand why I don't want to give them the satisfaction of a live call. Do they eventually STOP calling?

I too have been the same situation with a common last name. The calls started in late spring of this year claiming my husband had an over due debt. Since I'm the financial minster of our household knew that wasn't the truth and it was a mistaken ID. I decided to check both our credit reports at all three sites and all is good. Prior to checking our credit reports, I looked up this company via internet since wasn't any business we recognized----thank goodness to caller ID. There was so much negative feedback. I was reluctant to find out about this so call debt and hope they would eventually go away but my curiosity got better of me. I called. I was answer by a live pleasant lady who said the debt was with Sprint whom we have had no dealings with. Then she read four numbers I assume to be someone SS#. I said these were not my husband's. She said, we have the wrong person and he would be removed from the list. This was done 8/2/07. We shall see if this is true. Will update.

I've been getting calls from them for months now, every day several times a day. I have no idea why they're calling, but I know it can't be for anything legitimate since although I am in debt with student loans and a credit card, I'm on top of all those accounts and none of them have been or have any reason to be sent to a collection agency. I just refuse to answer after reading all the horror stories of false debts that they just make up to get you to pay in order to keep it off your credit report and the fact that they at first often don't even know who they are calling and then find out by talking to you and THEN put things on your credit report. I don't know, should I answer? I would assume if I actually owed someone money they would send me something in the mail, or leave a voice mail or something. I actually just got fed up with them calling me 3 or more times per day so I just went online to my cell phone account and am going to now have their phone calls blocked, at least from the number that they have been calling me from for the last two months. They used to call me from a different number.