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08-07-2010, 01:38 PM #1Registered User
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Bill from 10 years ago
Ok i get this collection notice, a past due bill from 10 years ago. From verizon regarding a cell phone. For 1 i never owned a cell back then and didn't get a cell till i remarried in 04. I live here at the same addresse since 03 and just now getting this bill. So i call them the bill is $284 they want to settle for $25.00.Ok i said if can send me more info on this account and where i was living and working at the time. It might have been a house phone since i divorced in 2000 and my ex was suppose to have payed some of the bills. So i said i will send them a M/O. Oh NO they want my credit card number or my checking account number. WHAT YOU THINK IM STUPID!! I don't think so. Again i said since they were offering the $25 settlement i would send them the MO they said it would be mailed back to me. The deal was only good for credit card and checking account payment. So i told them no way.So if they don't want to accept my form of payment then they won't get it.
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Sounds like a scam. Is this supposed debt showing on your credit report?
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Willing to settle for $25 but only if you act immediately and give them your credit card or banking information now? What a load of hogwash! It reeks of fraud and I think you're wise not to fall for it.
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smells like a scam-- when you called to speak to them did you talk to verizon or a collection agency
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08-07-2010, 01:56 PM #5Registered User
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also was this via email or snail mail ?
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It was a letter i got in the mail from afina collections. I know people that have settled. ( not through this company) But the cleaned there checking account out and even though they had a letter for a settlement amount they took the whole thing..
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08-07-2010, 02:17 PM #7Registered User
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Afni Collections Complaints - These rip-offs must be punished for what they are doing!
I guess many complaints regarding this place.If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to
people or things.
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Just a question, but I thought they only had like 5 or 7 years to collect on a bill? Not that if you owe it you shouldn't pay. But am I wrong? Does anyone know the rule?
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A lot of people in our area, including me, were getting calls similar to that from a area "bank" awhile back.. I hung up cos' I know I never had an account there. Calls were made to the police and some contacted the newspaper immediately after getting the call.. It was a scam..
You handled it great..
I think more people are waking up to what might be a scam..Mom of 4
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reeks of scam to me too. Glad you didn't give them any account numbers.
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Someone else probably knows the law better than me, but the statute of limitations expiring just means they can't get a court judgment to force you to pay. They can still ask you to pay.
Originally Posted by Jeanna
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Alot of it depends on the state. Some states have are 6-8 and even 10 years.
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08-07-2010, 08:15 PM #13Registered User
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Originally Posted by Jeanna
If that company has contacted you once at a legit address or phone number in the time period, they can refresh the years..
Any company that you owe can find you anytime, example ~ when buy a car, house, anything that you might get on credit or they check your credit for.. I had a company tell me that's how they found me after many years and many moves, we bought a car from a car lot and they checked our credit.. There is some tag thing the collectors see that tells them..
PAY CASHHHH!!! Lose the paper trail.
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After looking at this so called bill i got. I noticed It was under a phone number in a total different city that i live or ever lived. In fact the city is around 300 miles away from me. I'm going to call again on Monday, write a letter of complaint. Then turn it over to the BBB as a fraud complaint.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to
people or things.
- Albert Einstein
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Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
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Don't wait for a crisis to look at your finances differently. Look at them differently now and avoid the crisis.
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