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Mbf Leasing, northern Leasing, merchant Services, Electrocheck, Scan fraudulent billing and hundreds of Fair Credit Act violating phone calls Ripoff New York New York
In April 2006, I changed credit card/check verification companies after a huge increase in NSF checks that were not getting collected. I sent letters to MBF, CRS, SCAN, ELECTROCHECK, and my bank. Immediately all four companies hit me with bogus charges AFTER they were told they no longer had access to my account. My bank reversed the charges.
I contacted MBF to inquire about sending the equpiment back to them as I discontinued their service. I was told to send it no more than ten days after the registered letter containing the cancellation notice had been recieved. I did it.
Then they start the calls. Ten or more calls a day. Some calls were hang ups. The same two people, a man and a woman would call. Sometimes she would say "please disreguard the call." then call back the next day and demand payment--the calls started after all future attempts to debit my account were rebuked.
The calls came from Northern Leasing. After researching them online, I discover what crooks they are. I filed with the FTC, BBB in both Texas and New York and the Attorney General's office in NY. The Attn. Gen. said to get a lawyer to get them to leave me alone.
I also found a lawsuit online filed in Sherman TX against Electrocheck and Merchant services for fraudulent fees. I confronted all companies with this--no answer.
Every company associated with them has lied. I was never given anything but a signature sheet. I never saw any contract fine print until I questioned it. Their rep told me to send the equipment back (which they wanted to charge me over $3500 for and costs $40 on Ebay new) and then denied the contract was cancellable.
If anyone has a class action lawsuit against them or gearing one up, I'm in. They are crooks. The FTC knows it, the BBB, even the Attn. General but they are leaving it all up to us to prove it.
They bill me $80.67 every month even though they have the check reader and I don't use their service. They ignored the registered letter I sent per the Fair Credit Act telling them to cease phone harrassment. They won't give me their names and frequently hang up on me when I call them at their own game. I have taped phone calls and harrassing messages. They even called pretending to be a lawyer trying to locate a made up relative.
K k
commerce, Texas
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Sally
Marquette,Iowa,
U.S.A.
Federal Trade Commission sets a precedence with Leasecomm Corp. in 2003
#2Consumer Comment
Fri, August 18, 2006
ftc.gov/ro/leasecomm/
Follow the link above to the FTC's website where they have already ruled on one leasing company, Leasecomm.(I found this thanks to a concerned reader who posted a very helpful rebuttal.) What happened to us is exactly what was ruled on in FTC vs. Leasecomm.
Thanks to Ripoff Report I have been better prepared for what happened to us. I have also filed a ripoff report on MBF Leasing. I have had to hire an attorney and they told me to close my bank account and open a new one. They told me to send the credit card terminal back to MBF Leasing and I have done that also. MBF Leasing called me as soon as they realized that I had closed the account. I do not plan on paying for a fraudulantly acquired lease. The vendor for MBF Leasing was deceptive (to put it mildly) and I am going to fight this all the way to the highest court if I need to.
I have found four other businesses in my area caught in the same trap who are willing to work with me to fight this. I know there are more, and I intend to find every last one of them. I don't feel that anyone should have to fight this alone. STRENGH IN NUMBERS!!!!