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My business is devoted to showing consumers how to stop collection agency threats,abuse and illegal behavior through a self help system that I developed because some years ago I was a victim of these abuses. Instead of being a victim I chose to educate my self and become their worst nightmare. I offer a lot of free advice and counseling along with my self help StoptheCallsFast.Com system
Date / Time: 5/12/2009 1:06 PM UTC
Maybe The Worst Collection Agency In The U.S.
Remember the name Unifund. If you ever receive mail from them or a phone call from them..watch out!
What I have learned is that Unifund is owned by the infamous Zises brothers who founded Integrated
Resources and royally screwed investors back the 1980’s. What follows is what Bud Hibbs of
www.budhibbs.com thinks of these slime buckets:
“David Rosenberg, Cincinnati, OH and the Unifund (UNIFRAUD?) Group is arguably one of the worst debt collectors that have EVER come on the scene.
He happily admits to paying 3-4 cents on the dollar to purchase old (usually worthless) debts from creditors, gambling that he can turn them into big profits. Rosenberg's operation is enough to cause consumers to be leery of Unifund collection activities. Challenge every contact from Unifund. Unifund does not ask credit card companies for copies of their card holder agreements. They have copies of the form agreements in their Files. However, they have no way of establishing which form was sent to which cardholder when. Their in-house signor of affidavits; Angela Freckman swears to have knowledge on purchased debts that are used in court filings. Again, CHALLENGE everything from these bottom feeders, they are NOT to be believed or trusted.
Rosenberg’s history is to file claims that are hearsay using a group of attorneys who would rather skip a court date in the hope of obtaining a default judgment. Unifund was reportedly selling ‘future home liens’ to other bottom feeders at a conference, how low does that rank in the sleaze category? The good news is that most Unifund cases can be defeated if you have proper legal representation from attorneys who know how to handle this assembly line of bogus pleadings and manufactured affidavits. It ain’t brain surgery to beat up on a bottom feeder, you just need to know what steps to take. Challenge everything about them, including anything they place on your credit files., let us assist you in defeating their con game.”
It gets better. One of my blog readers sent me the following information:
"Better yet, all three sons [Zises brothers] are the founding principles of Unifund CCR partners, a vicious collection agency. This year, Unifund will sue 160,000 families for credit card debt. Many families will be sued for cards they never owned. Even more will be sued, and never know about it until their wages are garnished, their bank account is cleaned out or the Sheriff sells the family home. This is an exceptionally profitable business. A face value account of say $8000 can be bought for less than $400, and yield a default judgment in excess of $20,000. And, since the tax laws treat purchased debit proceeds the same as loss recovery mitigation, the profits are mostly not reportable and tax free! Woopie!!!!
The industry is full of illegal activity all the way up to the corporate management level. Unifund has a contract with Asta Funding a.k.a. Palisades Collections that rewards Unifund CCR Partners with a premium commission for collecting "...outside the relative statute of limitations". I am sure the Zises Brothers have multiple offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands, Jersey, Isle of Man, Isle of White and various South China Sea banks. They must be using their accounts with the Israeli Discount Bank on 5th avenue, which has a branch in the Cayman Islands, as a vehicle to get the unreported Unifund proceeds out of the country."
If you are being contacted by Unifund, email me, or purchase my STCF system.
If you ignore their correspondence you are going to need an attorney.
Date / Time: 5/11/2009 6:47 PM UTC
The Michigan Collection Law Blog has posted an article relating to another blog post from Workathometruth.com about the Federal Trade Commission slapping Academy Collection Service, Inc. with the largest penalty fine ever in a debt collection case. Keith Dickstein, owner of the company, has agreed to pay the fine of $2.25 million.
Over 1,000 complaints have been filed against Academy Collection Service for various forms of creditor harassment, such as:
Academy’s collectors allegedly engaged in false or deceptive threats of garnishment, arrest, and legal action; communication with third parties about consumers’ debts; and calls to consumers at their workplace when the employer prohibits such calls. Other practices included frequent, harassing, threatening, and abusive calls; unfair and unauthorized withdrawals from consumers’ bank accounts; and early deposit of postdated checks consumers submitted for debt payment.
Not only does Academy have to pay a fine, but they are now prohibited from misrepresenting themselves to customers as attorneys instead of just debt collectors, and also from:
...misrepresenting to consumers that nonpayment of a debt will result in the garnishment of wages, seizure or attachment of property, or lawsuits...and are also prohibited from improperly communicating with third parties about a debt; using false, deceptive, or misleading representations in debt collection efforts; communicating with a consumer at any unusual time or place, including the workplace; or harassing, oppressing, or abusing any person in connection with debt collection. The settling defendants are also barred from making any withdrawals from consumers’ bank accounts without obtaining the consumers’ express informed consent, and they cannot deposit or threaten to deposit any postdated check or other postdated payment instrument prior to the date on the check or instrument.
Gary Nitzkin, of the Michigan Collection Law Blog, has a few suggestions on how to avoid having a debt collection complaint filed against your company. He says that the collectors should be extensively trained and their training should be documented, should proof ever be needed. He advises that phone conversations should also be monitored and documented. Also, a temperament test isn't a bad idea. Lastly, he says to remember that the debtors are actual human beings and should be treated with "respect and dignity."
The above is just another reason why you should visit www.stopthecallsfast.com/blog often.
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