Steven l
San Jose,#2Author of original report
Sat, July 22, 2006
Tonight I came for updates by those above after my daughter came to me crying that the messages are becoming more frequent, more demanding and more threatening. That is when my wife told me, "Let's just get rid of the cell phone". It took my 14 yr. old daughter to say, "No, that is not right, those people should be punished for causing me this pain". "Also, we will give this phone back and then someone else will get the problem and have to deal with it". Never one to take the "easy way out" when facing problems myself, how can I show my daughter that we SHOULD NOT do something? I hope all that read this do the same. Don't put up with companies/people like this. Do something about it and we will teach our children to be stronger, take action and make these types of places responsible for their terrible ways of doing business.
John
Marlborough,#3Consumer Suggestion
Sat, July 15, 2006
I agree with Steve. Have your daughters phone number changed.
Steve
Bradenton,#4Consumer Suggestion
Sat, July 15, 2006
Steven, They have violated the FDCPA and those violations are worth up to $1000 plus costs and actual damages. After the first time they called and were told that phone # did not belong to the party they were looking for, that was considered a third party contact. Leaving any indication that it is in regard to a debt is another violation. Making derogatory remarks is another violation. Even the cost and inconvenience of having to change your daughters phone# because of it would be damages. These crackheads at Academy Collections cannot figure out that people change phone#'s and other people get issued that#. Espescially "professional debtors" like me. I am proud of running these morons in circles, but I do feel bad for people like you who get the phone# I once had. You can ask for a NEW# that has not been previously issued. I hope this helps.
Steven l
San Jose,#5Author of original report
Sat, July 15, 2006
Yes all the calls are from Academy Collection Services although they say on the messages left that they are "Academy Services". I knew they were a collection agency and found their info on a web-search. The calls have had different originating numbers and different people calling but I was told on two different times that NO ONE from their entire company would ever call again. They both said they would make a note in their computer system so that other employees would not call my daughter again. I guess they have an old IBM 386. As for the agent not knowing who the number is for, they call and get my daughter's outgoing voicemail message and it clearly sounds like a young girl on her message. The messages they leave are not like "We are looking for Rose Madrid" or something like that. They have all stated for her to call them immediately, "call me or else....", etc. Not one single one takes any assumption that the number they are calling COULD possibly be someone else's, let alone a 14 year old girl who has cried about the way they have "harassed" her.
Don
Belleville,#6Consumer Suggestion
Thu, July 13, 2006
You mention that the calls are coming up on caller ID as unknown. Are they all from Academy Collection Services? I am not defending harassment by them if they are all from there, but purely just pointing something out. If this Ms. Madrid has one account in collections, they may have other accounts in collections with other offices. The agent making the call does not know who the number is for, just the number that was attached to the file.