1, Report:
#173124
Posted Date:
Feb 21 2010
Merchant's Credit Guide - Ken Hughs - CFB Financial III -Key Bank ripoff Illegal Collection attempt of Time-Barred 19 YEAR OLD Debt!! 86 Year old Grandma's response: Chicago Illinois
January 24, 2006
Merchant's Credit Guide Co.
223 W. Jackson Blvd.,STE 900
Chicago, IL. 60606
Tel: 888-249-4134, 312-360-3000
Fax: 312-360-3024
www.merchantscreditguide.com
To all concerned,
Today I received a collection notice from you and had to laugh. You are the mos...
Entity
Merchant's Credit Guide- Ken Hughs-/ CFB Financial III- Key Bank
Categories: Collection Agency's
2, Report:
#321342
Posted Date:
Mar 26 2008
Merchants' Credit Guide Co..aka CFB Financial, III LLC. These scumbags purchased a debt that was settled thru another scumbag Camco Chicago Illinois
After allowing my brother to use a couple credit cards to help him out, he never informed me of being laid-off and I was not notified of collections for almost two years. (started in 1992) I paid all but Bof A...I had no job and no funds. In 2002 I purchased a home and none of this...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide Co..aka CFB Financial,III LLC.
Categories: Credit Reporting Agencies
3, Report:
#315464
Posted Date:
Mar 07 2008
Merchant's Credit Guide Attempting to collect on a bogus debt Chicago Illinois
Merchant's Credit Guide Co. (MCG) sent a letter to my mother, who happens to be 81 years old, informing her that they are attempting to collect on a defaulted account which was purchased from Household Bank. They are doing this on behalf of CFB Financial III, LLC.
My research in...
Entity
Merchant's Credit Guide
Categories: Corrupt Companies
4, Report:
#299318
Posted Date:
Jan 12 2008
Merchants' Credit Guide - CFB Financial III False defaulted account with demand for collection. Chicago Illinois
I received a letter that my debt with Discover (fake account number beginning with the usual Discover 6011) had been purchased by CFB Financil III LLC for collection. Merchants' Credit Guide Co. stated they represented CFB. Since I don't owe Discover any money and don't have the r...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide - CFB Financial III
Categories: Corrupt Companies
5, Report:
#298322
Posted Date:
Jan 12 2008
CIRCUIT CITY & HUDSON & KEYSE, TRIED TO MAKE ME PAY 0VER 32.000 FOR THINGS I DID NOT BUY! CHICAGO Illinois
Circuit City and there collectors,tried to sue me for serveal thousands for things i did not buy, i got a lawyer and then got on the internet printed out all th report's about them and gave it to my lawyer and they backed off!
Now they CFB FINANCIAL,III LLC has sent me a bill for...
Entity
CFB FINANCIAL III
Categories: Collection Agency's
6, Report:
#253289
Posted Date:
Jun 09 2007
Merchants Credit Guide Co Another attempt by Merchants Credit Guide Co. to extort money. ripoff Chicago Illinois
I wanted to take the time to relay an experience which has occured between myself and Merchants' Credit Guide Co. After the final phone call I contacted the leading America Consumer Credit Expert, (you probably know him but I am witholding his name for this report), and he provide...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
7, Report:
#234239
Posted Date:
Feb 04 2007
Merchants Credit Guide - CFB Financial III, I Googled 888-239-1037 and found out I may of saved myself a crap load of incoming calls Chicago Illinois
I am in the process of trying to repair my credit and found out that an account that I had paid is still showing $110.00 owed for an electric bill 5 yrs ago. I called the debt collector and was told that the account has been transferred to Merchants Credit Guide Co. aka/CFB Financia...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide - CFB Financial III
Categories: Collection Agency's
8, Report:
#232690
Posted Date:
Jan 26 2007
Merchants' Credit Guide Co. Re-Aged An Account And Illegally Reported Negative Info to Credit Bureaus Ripoff Chicago Illinois
Merchants' Credit Guide sent me a letter in January,2006 stating that they represent the above client, CFB Financial III LLC who has purchased your defaulted account referenced above. The original creditor was listed as Household Bank. I was informed by Merchants' that I owed $133...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide Co.
Categories: Collection Agency's
9, Report:
#203173
Posted Date:
Jul 27 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide - MCGC ripoff dishonest fraudulent billing scam artist scum Chicago Illinois
I recently received a letter from Merchants' Credit Guide Co. dated July 18, 2006, stating that I owed their client CFB Financial III LLC (one of their other names) a total of $817.01. At first I was puzzled because this amount was very close to the amount of an old student loan th...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide
Categories: Credit Card Processing (ACH) Companies
10, Report:
#202996
Posted Date:
Jul 26 2006
Merchants Credit Guide - CFB Financial Ripoff I discovered a scam a ripoff Chicago Illinois
The other day, my husband of 8 years received a letter in the mail telling him that he owed money. The letter came from Merchant's Credit Guide Co. out of Chicago, Ill. To me the letter looks cheap. No fancy letterhead, no color, just a typed, black & white letter. The letter st...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide Co - CFB Financial
Categories: Collection Agency's
11, Report:
#200390
Posted Date:
Jul 11 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide ripoff, dishonest, fraud Chicago Illinois
WATCH OUT FOR MERCHANTS' CREDIT GUIDE!
I received a phone call regarding an important business matter. Not being new to the collections game, I knew that this is what the call was for.
Over the years, I have had less than perfect credit, however, I have been working very ...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
12, Report:
#199124
Posted Date:
Jul 02 2006
Merchants Credit Guide, CFB Financial Watch Out For This Company Chicago Illinois
Wow, I never thought I'd be spending my holiday weekend (July 4th just around the corner) writing a rip-off report. But, I really got angry when an elderly relative (we'll call him Uncle Jim) got a letter recently from Merchants' Credit Guide Co stating that several thousand dollar...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Credit & Debt Services
13, Report:
#183783
Posted Date:
Jun 29 2006
Merchant Credit Guide ripoff False Credit Reporting and Violation of the FDCRA Chicago Illinois
I have been monitoring my credit report closely ever since I found some inaccurate items last year. This week Merchant Credit Guide shows up on my report with a debt of over $4000, original balance almost $8000! They say the account was opened on 12/10/2005, yet I have only applie...
Entity
Merchant Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
14, Report:
#195071
Posted Date:
Jun 09 2006
Merchants Credit Guide - CFB Financial III Said we owed them money, but couldnt tell us the original creditor. ripoff Chicago Illinois
Hello, I knew something was funny when we called this company and they knew my boyfriends social security number, but were un able to tell us who the original creditor was.
Was wondering how they got his social? Is this easy to do?
How do we take care of this, since I just sp...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Corrupt Companies
15, Report:
#191126
Posted Date:
May 13 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide Company, CFB Financial III, Bogus Debt Collection, Obvious scam rip-off, Only a fool believes this Hauppauge, New York
I collect my mail from the mailbox and this letter just sticks out like a sore thumb! The mail stamp is obviously fake looking mailed from zip code 11787 presort.
Then I open it and the letterhead is even more bogus! The date is January 6, 2006 and the letter is dated 12/29/0...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide, CFB Financial III
Categories: Collection Agency's
16, Report:
#188649
Posted Date:
Apr 30 2006
Merchants Credit Guide Co, CFB Financial III, ripoff Chicago Illinois
This company has placed inaccurate information on my credit report. I am fighting to have it removed.
Debra
Newton Grove, North CarolinaU.S.A.
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide Co, CFB Financial III
Categories: Collection Agency's
17, Report:
#189201
Posted Date:
Apr 29 2006
Ken Hughes - Merchants' Credit Guide - Steinbach ripoff, tried to collect on a discharged debt Hauppauge New York
Back in March of this year, I received a call from an unidentified collection agency stating that they represent a company that bought a previous debt that I had with Steinbach's department store. I tried to explain to them that this debt was discharged in federal bankruptcy court, ...
Entity
Ken Hughes - Merchants' Credit Guide - Steinbach
Categories: Collection Agency's
18, Report:
#188591
Posted Date:
Apr 26 2006
Merchant's Credit Guide - CFB Financial ripoff comapny purchased old debt list and tried to collect on a debt that was already paid YEARS ago Chicago Illinois
Merchant's Credit Guide Co., Merchants Credit Guide Co., Merchants' Credit Guide Co
223 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60606
Phone Number: 888-249-4134, 312-360-3000
CFB financial is owned by Merchants Credit guide
CONTACTS
4/25/2006, 5:30PM Ken Hughes (888-249-4134) ca...
Entity
Merchant's Credit Guide - CFB Financial
Categories: Collection Agency's
19, Report:
#180044
Posted Date:
Mar 10 2006
Merchant Credit Guide - CFB Financial III ripoff Chicago Illinois
i RECEIVED CORRESPOMDENCE REGARDING A COLLECTION ON AN ACCT I HAD ORIGINALLY WITH FIRST-CONSUMERS - SPEIGEL. I DONE A PAYMENT OVER THE PHONE USING MY CHECKING ACCT. I LATER WAS GOING OVER MY CREDIT REPORT TO MARK OFF THAT IT WAS PAID.
I THEN DISCOVERED THAT THE ACCOUNT THAT THE...
Entity
MerchantCreditGuide - CFB Financial III
Categories: Corrupt Companies
20, Report:
#179609
Posted Date:
Mar 06 2006
CFB FINANCIAL III - Merchants Credit Guide - Spiegels FRAUDULENT BILLING SENT FICTITIOUS BILL, Ripoff CHICAGO Illinois
I am turning 65 this month and the Merchants Credit Guide Co sent me a bill for 734.25 ostensibly from Spiegels. My daughter was about to pay it while I was hospitalized. Fortunately I saw it first.
Mary
chatham, New JerseyU.S.A.
Entity
CFB FINANCIAL III - Merchants Credit Guide - Spiegels
Categories: Collection Agency's
21, Report:
#179286
Posted Date:
Mar 04 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide, CFB Financial III ripoff Chicago Illinois
I just got a letter from Ken Hughes, stating I owe $3,310.21 on an account that closed with a $0 balance back in May,1998. I looked at my credit report and found the highest ever balance on that account was only $1,858.00. There is no record on any of my credit reports with the nam...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide, CFB Financial III
Categories: Corrupt Companies
22, Report:
#174568
Posted Date:
Feb 03 2006
Merchants' Credit Guide Co ripoff Chicago Illinois
this is how the letter is adressed
cfb financial III LLC
File # 15-058147666
acct# 2222601xxxxxxxxxx12
creditor GE Capital
current Balance $1,699.29
I do not know who this company is, or how they got my name and address, or what it is i supposed to...
Entity
Merchants' Credit Guide Co
Categories: Collection Agency's
23, Report:
#173398
Posted Date:
Jan 29 2006
Merchants Credit Guide ripoff attepts to collect 13 year old dept Chicago Illinois
My husband got a letter a few weeks ago from this creditor saying that it represents the client CFB Financial III and that we owe an old debt from Montgomery Wards totaling $1,080.00. They offered us one time payment of around $500 bucks and that would settle the balance. We told t...
Entity
Merchants Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's
24, Report:
#173100
Posted Date:
Jan 24 2006
Merchant's Credit Guide - Ken Hughs - CFB Financial III - Key Bank sends 87 year old grandmother on SS a bill for a 19 year old paid off debt of $134.89! ripoff Chicago Illinois
This is an all time low even for Merchant's!
My Grandmother paid off this credit card from Key Bank when she left NY and moved to FL. That was in 1987!
The bill is for $134.89!
I really cannot wait to get on to these morons. This will be one extremely rude letter.
Merch...
Entity
Merchant's Credit Guide - Ken Hughs - CFB Financial III - Key Bank
Categories: Collection Agency's
25, Report:
#172435
Posted Date:
Jan 20 2006
Merchant's Credit Guide Creditor RIPOFF Chicago Illinois
My husband received a collections letter from Merchants' Credit Guide Co. The letter was from a guy named KEN HUGHES. I called the company to talk to the guy, and wouldn't you know it, he just stepped out. My husband never owed any money to KEYBANK, nor did he received a notice f...
Entity
Merchant's Credit Guide
Categories: Collection Agency's