Afni Collections afni sent two letters to son who never had verizon or alltel Bloomington Illinois
Always good to check out suspicious items on this site. My son received two letters of collection from afni for verizon and alltel. HE HAS NEVER HAD EITHER ONE OF THESE ACCOUNTS. Of course the fact that they didn't offer a phone # for these supposed accounts (how could they, non exist) raised my eyebrows and I decided not to EVEN call them without checking the internet first. Can you imagine the unsupecting people who get freaked out and pay?! I always think of the elderly as I know my mom would pay this immediately - thinking she MUST have overlooked something years ago. How I wish 60 minutes would get hold of this scam!!!!! I'm calling my Mom now and telling her to alert everyone she knows.
This is simply unimaginable.
Allin
roanoke, Virginia
U.S.A.
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Stacey
Dallas,Texas,
U.S.A.
Get real
#9Consumer Comment
Sat, June 20, 2009
This is one of the worst bottom feeder collection agencies
Send them a cease communications letter via certified mail with return receipt
Make copies
visit www.budhibbs.com and see what kind of scumbags these losers are
Stacey
Dallas,Texas,
U.S.A.
Get real
#9Consumer Comment
Sat, June 20, 2009
This is one of the worst bottom feeder collection agencies
Send them a cease communications letter via certified mail with return receipt
Make copies
visit www.budhibbs.com and see what kind of scumbags these losers are
Stacey
Dallas,Texas,
U.S.A.
Get real
#9Consumer Comment
Sat, June 20, 2009
This is one of the worst bottom feeder collection agencies
Send them a cease communications letter via certified mail with return receipt
Make copies
visit www.budhibbs.com and see what kind of scumbags these losers are
John
Louisville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
RE:
#9Consumer Comment
Sat, June 20, 2009
AFNI is a bottom feeder debt collector that buys old accounts like this...Often they can't located the original account holder so they go after people with similar names or addresses and place negative info on their credit files...
Bikebryan
Alexandria,Virginia,
U.S.A.
Judgemental much?
#9Consumer Comment
Fri, June 12, 2009
How do you know this is the fault of Verizon or Alltel? Did you ever bother to think if identity theft or some such thing? In that case the phone companies are as much the victim as the person being defrauded. So hold your horses on the blame there, Tonto!
The fact is that most service companies takes hundreds of phone calls like this every day, all claiming they never did this or that so the charges are wrong - and a VAST majority (over 95% of them) are plain out lies by people trying to get out of paying. That's a simple fact. The other five percent are legitimate billing errors, or fraud (usually less than 1% fraud in the telecommunications companies now due to digital signals and encryption).
So before you go blaming the phone company or go slandering them, get all the facts. Don't jump to conclusions.
Bikebryan
Alexandria,Virginia,
U.S.A.
Judgemental much?
#9Consumer Comment
Fri, June 12, 2009
How do you know this is the fault of Verizon or Alltel? Did you ever bother to think if identity theft or some such thing? In that case the phone companies are as much the victim as the person being defrauded. So hold your horses on the blame there, Tonto!
The fact is that most service companies takes hundreds of phone calls like this every day, all claiming they never did this or that so the charges are wrong - and a VAST majority (over 95% of them) are plain out lies by people trying to get out of paying. That's a simple fact. The other five percent are legitimate billing errors, or fraud (usually less than 1% fraud in the telecommunications companies now due to digital signals and encryption).
So before you go blaming the phone company or go slandering them, get all the facts. Don't jump to conclusions.
Bikebryan
Alexandria,Virginia,
U.S.A.
Judgemental much?
#9Consumer Comment
Fri, June 12, 2009
How do you know this is the fault of Verizon or Alltel? Did you ever bother to think if identity theft or some such thing? In that case the phone companies are as much the victim as the person being defrauded. So hold your horses on the blame there, Tonto!
The fact is that most service companies takes hundreds of phone calls like this every day, all claiming they never did this or that so the charges are wrong - and a VAST majority (over 95% of them) are plain out lies by people trying to get out of paying. That's a simple fact. The other five percent are legitimate billing errors, or fraud (usually less than 1% fraud in the telecommunications companies now due to digital signals and encryption).
So before you go blaming the phone company or go slandering them, get all the facts. Don't jump to conclusions.
Bikebryan
Alexandria,Virginia,
U.S.A.
Judgemental much?
#9Consumer Comment
Fri, June 12, 2009
How do you know this is the fault of Verizon or Alltel? Did you ever bother to think if identity theft or some such thing? In that case the phone companies are as much the victim as the person being defrauded. So hold your horses on the blame there, Tonto!
The fact is that most service companies takes hundreds of phone calls like this every day, all claiming they never did this or that so the charges are wrong - and a VAST majority (over 95% of them) are plain out lies by people trying to get out of paying. That's a simple fact. The other five percent are legitimate billing errors, or fraud (usually less than 1% fraud in the telecommunications companies now due to digital signals and encryption).
So before you go blaming the phone company or go slandering them, get all the facts. Don't jump to conclusions.