Complaint Review: Timothy A Lane - Ringwood Illinois

Make sure to call northern leasing.  Ask northern leasing to fax you the documents you have 'signed'.  Then do the same from the processing company he has you signed under.  If you don't get a statement from them, then simply have the bank give you the phone number from the company withdrawing money from your account.  Usually there will be a number on the side of your credit card equipment that was sent to you to call as well.  They will all give you the documents you allegedly signed and have on file.  I wish I could give you my email here to help you more person to person.  But I guess we simply have to keep our Identities confidential.  and not allowed to exchange info.  I've found, by other companies I have worked with, that Tim has scanned and copied signatures from paperwork to other paperwork to get his processes to push through.  Obviously a fraud type action is what he's doing.  I can not believe he's not in jail or prison by now by how many he's taken advantage of.  Contact the local police, sherrif, FBI, and get online and file a complaint also with the consumer protection agency.  The more reports we get in about this guy, the better and sooner the results.  Best of luck to all of you who have suffered by the hands of this nightmare of a person.

TJH

Time Lane came to me, referred from a friend of mine, who had just signed up with him as well.  He said he was the owner of the bank.  It was Sept 2012 and he signed my company up with Northern Leasing at a flat rate per month for the cc machine.  I told him I didn't have alot of cc requests for the way my customer's to pay me.  He said that there were no minimum amounts to have the machine and if I didn't use it, I wouldn't be penalized.  But I had to have the cc machine in order to be able to get the loan.   

He told me since he was the owner of the bank, he knew times were tough and he could help me with up to a 50K business loan.  He had all my business information, including my FEIN# and bank account number.  He also had my SS# and DL#.  He said I would have my money in about 2 weeks, which was suppose to be 20K.

Not only did that not happen, but he wouldn't answer his phone, When he finally would he would say he had been in the hospital because they found a spot on his brain, he had seizures and was dizzy and they were running more tests.  Then he would be on vacation, or dealing with his ex and his daughter.  Never got the loan.  

My friend who referred him to me, called me up and told me that Tim had not come through for him with a loan but that he had stold money from his bank account, thousands of dollars.  I had the machine for about 6 months at that time when I realized that I had numerous charges from Northern Leasing, TNBC, Global Pay and others.  But what opened my eyes were 2 ACH's from AMEX, that I wasn't even authorized to take from my customers.  

I used the cc machine 4 times during the 6 month period for transactions not even totalling 2K.  I had over 2K taken out of my buiness account in numerous small charges from the above companies via ACH's.  

I went to my bank, BMO Harris and the bank manager, helped me after I showed her my bank statements.  They filed a fraud and unauthorized money taken from the account and they did give a couple of the charges back. Not at first, until the manager said there was going to be a police report and that there was already a class action law suit in CA against them.  Then a couple days after that, the same company took the money back out.  The bank manager alerted me right away and called me in and advised to close my account. She said because since they had my bank info and they could block the names I already had from withdrawing from my account, that wouldn't stop them from just creating another name and get the money that way.  

I closed the account and that stopped them from getting access to my account anymore.  I called Tim Lane and he didn't return my calls anymore.  I then started getting calls from Northern Leasing wanting money from me and I told them they were thieves and they could come get their machine.  They didn't care, and wanted their money.  They wanted a bank account to set up the ACH again.  I told them no.  

I finally called Tim again out of the blue around Oct 2013 and left him a voicemail as to what I was being threatened with being sued for over 4K.  he called and said he had no idea, even though I left him messages in beginning of 2013 letting him know what had happened to me.  I told him there was a police report and there was a class action law suit in CA that I was trying to be part of.  He said he would look into it and call them and stop this.

He DID call back, surprisingly, and apologized, but supposedly that Northern Leasing had been hacked and that caused my information to be in the hands of who had hacked them.  The hacker was the one who had taken the money out of the account. Said that he was working on getting the over 2K back to me and that they wouldn't be calling me anymore, that it was all taken care of.   

Two weeks later, he called, again surprisingly, and said that they were going to refund the money to me and I should have the check within a week.  I said thank you.  But to no surprise, no check, no call, but the threatening calls had stopped, so that I was thankful for.

About a month ago, I got a call from an attorney from NY that I was named in a lawsuit and that she wanted to try and reach an out of court settlement for 2500.00 instead of 4500.00 and wanted payment.  I'm sorry, but I don't trust anything to do with any name or company that initiated via Tim Lane.  I had to explain to her what had happened to me and she didn't know anything about it.  

I again called Tim Lane and he called me back and told me he sold his company to John Hurts (a.k.a. Tim Lane) and said he would call him and have him call Northern Leasing and call the attorney that  had just called me to straighten it out.  He would make sure that John called me back to let me know the outcome of his conversation with the attorney.  He apologized and said he thought it was all taken care of.  I never did hear back from John, Tim finally text me the phone number for "John", which is just a computerized voice message to prompt me to leave a message.  Tim did tell me that after he sold his company to "John", he is retired and living in Costa Rica. 

I know my friend, who referred him to me, is a victim and I know of another friend of his he referred him to is a victim.  A friend of ours that we referred him to is a victim. Per the bank manager at BMO Harris, she knew of 7 other customer's of hers that were.  Even though she can't give me their info, I asked her to give them mine to contact me so I could help them get in touch with CA.  

As of right now, the law firm handling the class action lawsuit in CA said it's too hard to have out-of-state defendents.  I am excited to see that there might be someone to help us in IL.  One last thing, to this day, I don't have any paperwork that I signed with Tim because he was suppose to make copies and give them to me.  I have asked many times, and many times, he said he will drop them off or mail them and Inever have received them.  

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