Complaint Review: Legal Helpers Debt Resolution - Chicago Illinois

Below is a letter written to Legal Helpers (this outlines the scam):

Dear Legal Helpers Debt Resolution,

After several months of research, news developments and noticeable forms of deceptive practices on your behalf, I have decided to cancel your service, effective immediately as of the day of this email (which serves as my formal
notification).  Your service is clearly a front for illegal and deceptive practices of preying on people with debt problems. Your organization has no true legal bearing on personal debt resolution, which you are marketing manipulatively.  To date, there has been no real progress as my creditors do not even recognize your organization as being valid. 

With this in mind, I am cancelling the service and expect a refund of all fees charged (please see attached statement with fees to be refunded, highlighted in YELLOW - total = $5,330.72).  My account with Global Client Solutions has been closed and they have already been notified of your fraudulent activity.

Please provide this refund by July 26th, 2012.  This is 2 weeks from today, July 12th, 2012.  Failure to send a refund for ALL fees charged by this date will result in a copy of this letter to the following sources:

- New Jersey Attorney General

  Jeffrey S. Chiesa (R)
   New Jersey Attorney General
 Appointed: January 2012

Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, 25 Market Street P.O. Box 080 Trenton, NJ 08625
 (609) 292-8740  http://www.state.nj.us/lps/

- Illinois Office of the Attorney General -Chicago
 Consumer Fraud Bureau
 100 W. Randolph St., 12th Floor
 Chicago, IL 60601

- Better Business Bureau
- All local consumer affairs offices listed online
- Any/All trade associations your organization belongs to (if any)
- New York Area and Chicago Area TV stations (all of them)
- All Bar Associations for any attorney listed within your parent/child firms
- Global Client Solutions
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- United States Postal Inspection Service
- FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NWCCC)
- Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force
- Report to be filed with Online Scam site www.GetOutOfDebt.org

Quote to bring to your attention:

As officers of the court, all attorneys are obligated to maintain the highest ethical standards. In furtherance of this obligation, attorneys are guided by a code of conduct, the Code of Professional Responsibility, as adopted by the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court. Attorneys who violate the law or fail to abide by this code of conduct are subject to discipline, which may include admonishment, reprimand, censure, suspension or loss of his or her license to practice law. You are clearly in violation, given the contents of this quote.

In order to make sure you take this matter seriously and comply with this request in a timely manner, I have copied multiple parties (some of which are listed above) - this includes the FBI.  Your deceptive practices will be front and stage for all media outlets, especially those involving social media.  Please know I am very serious and disappointed that you have deliberately taken my money and money from countless others, with no true intention on helping people get debt free.  You have already been brought to justice based on recent developments in the lawsuit involving violations of
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and you will continue to face justice from this day forward.  Please see link for the news story, which you are obviously well aware of:

Law Firm to Pay $2.1 settlement in debt scam

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-09/business/chi-law-firm-to-pay-21-million-settlement-in-debt-scam-20120709_1_legal-helpers-debt-resolution-law-firm-upfront-fees

(Author of this story, Becky Yerak, has also been copied)

Thank you for your time, swift action in closing my account and refunding all
funds as soon as possible within the 2 week time frame mentioned.