Collection agency harasses debt-free Canadians
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Send them an invoice for your time, if they don't pay, hire a collection agency.
if you're sharp, you can negotiate a lower settlement than that the original debt.
Never had the problem personally but a relative had issues with them and the agency
was calling my residence. Why this cousin of mine gave them my number and did that
complicate my life, until I threatened court action against them, Never heard from them
again.
was calling my residence. Why this cousin of mine gave them my number and did that
complicate my life, until I threatened court action against them, Never heard from them
again.
I've been hooked up to someones boat and ready to leave when they called the bank and made the back payments right in the driveway.
I've yet to see a bank turn away money.
If you share a last name, they could have just pulled your phone number hoping to find him or someone related that would tell them how to reach him/her. Skip tracers do it all the time.
Here's my story.
20 years ago, I had no credit record, and had to place a $100 security deposit down on a phone account. 6 years later when I closed the account, they lost all record of the security deposit, and would not negotiate with me, so I told them that I was going to let the final bill go to collections.
After about a year of not hearing anything, I recieved a call from a lady claiming to be from a collections agency. She seemed legit enough as she knew the full details of the debt.
Here's the strange part......I told her to mail me a statement or invoice and I would pay it. She tried to get me to pay it over the phone. I said no( several times). She got mad, and very aggressive, and actually told me that I was going to jail, then she hung up.
I never received an invoice, I never heard from her again. And, about a year later, I was approved for a mortgage ( ie clean credit bureau report)
Strange, eh?
20 years ago, I had no credit record, and had to place a $100 security deposit down on a phone account. 6 years later when I closed the account, they lost all record of the security deposit, and would not negotiate with me, so I told them that I was going to let the final bill go to collections.
After about a year of not hearing anything, I recieved a call from a lady claiming to be from a collections agency. She seemed legit enough as she knew the full details of the debt.
Here's the strange part......I told her to mail me a statement or invoice and I would pay it. She tried to get me to pay it over the phone. I said no( several times). She got mad, and very aggressive, and actually told me that I was going to jail, then she hung up.
I never received an invoice, I never heard from her again. And, about a year later, I was approved for a mortgage ( ie clean credit bureau report)
Strange, eh?
Hubby has a very common french name. We actually stopped listing our phone under his name because of the harassment of debtors. There must be at least 6 men with big debt, and his exact same name, here in Alberta. It's been a long time since we've been harassed (would you believe that collections agencies don't believe you when you say you carry zero debt let alone outstanding debt?), but we get regular phone calls looking for assorted people with our name. I've gotten used to telling them that if they don't believe me that I'm not who they think, they can take it up through legal channels.
Another way you can be vulnerable is when you give a person permission to give your name as a contact. The bastards do not lay off, they phone 2 or 3 times a day leaving a recorded message. Of course when I see their number on call display, I just let it ring.
Meet the new bill collector? He doesnt care if he has the wrong house or prson.....
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*57 registers the number with the cops after 5 calls within a certain amount of time.
Call Trace - SaskTel
Nope and it saves them, them cops and you hassles and it doesn't cost anything. It gives you the legal power to do something about them not listening to you. When you say no you mean no and you can lay charges if it continues from another number or auto-dialer and iis the same company.
Word of advise. Never ever let you sister in-law move in after a really nasty divorce no matter how ****ed up she is or they just invade your den and cry on the couch and do **** all for three years wracking up debts.
Word of advise. Never ever let you sister in-law move in after a really nasty divorce no matter how ****ed up she is or they just invade your den and cry on the couch and do **** all for three years wracking up debts.
Iqor hacked into the Vancouver Island Health Authority Files and was sending collection notices to people that had used ambulance service. Iqor said that they had outstanding bills to be paid. THey make harrasing phone calls as they have access to your personal information address and phone numbers.They were poorly generated collection notices received in the mail. Copy and pasted bar codes and a flag as noted by the RCMP I spoke with was that they wanted you to send a money order to an address marked Western Union VIHA does not use this agency! I spoke with them directly. From VIHA I went directly to better business and reported who directed to do a report with the RCMP. They are scamming people for sure so be aware of Iqor. There were people that were speaking in an accent not English and I hate to be prejudiced sounding I am not....ok but they were of the East Indian accent....the phone calls that came associated with this. It went on for two months and then the letters that were told off.....as I am not just a lip service do you get my attitude here ? yes please do be aware of Iqor. The managers name of the lady I spoke with she said his name was Paul Fowler that he was the man that was making her call these numbers as I spoke to her twice. I called the numbers back and started asking them questions? As I wanted to know who the hell it was calling me. You know at first it was a man then you cal back and they answer Hello? What are you doing calling me here? I said...hmmmm.....why are you calling me all the time . I want to know the same thing? So it got to the point it was a young lady non english and she was not sure how to take me but she did spill her guts about the jerk she was working for at the end of that call centre of abuse of employees who do not understand the English they are speaking or what is is that they are doing on the other end of the line. Not cool Mr.Fowler.