Complaint / Review
Allied Interstate
Questionable ethics, possibly violated FDCPA Not Sure Which Office

Allied Interstate contacted me in July regarding a VISA bill from 2000. These people called my house daily for two months before someone in my house answered the call. They would call with their 000-000-0000, I don't answer them after an AI collector berating me for five minutes until I hung up. A "Ms. Clavenger" called from a real number and I answered the phone.

She seemed like a helpful, polite person. We arranged a payment plan, she told me that (enter possible FDCPA violation here... Section 809 Subsection something) 3-10 days before the ACH I would receive a notice stating what day the withdrawal would be deducted so I naively trusted her with my account information. Uh oh. I should have known better.

I even called her back the following business day and told her that I was not comfortable with a business that I'm not familiar with having access to my checking account, and could she please send me a statement regarding my account. She had to ask a manager if they do this... Well, of course the answer was no they do not. But she'd send me something.

I was very wary if them from then on. I had recorded all of my conversations on my computer, and kept typed records of conversations also. But my computer crashed and I no longer have these records as proof. This also means that I have lost the number of the office they called me from, address, etc.

Back to my story, last week I got to worrying since I hadn't received anything from them, so I placed a stop payment on the payment. They still tried to send the payment through yesterday, 3 days late. (Bank told me it doesn't matter, I put a stop payment on it, they won't be paying it)

I want to contact them regarding this. Because I do owe the money. I have other accounts with dfferent collection agencies and it doesn't top more than $3,000 all total, I don't want to declare bankruptcy because it's such a small amount. I just don't like places that insists on checks by phone... Uh uh... I would be willing to work with these people if they could just tell the truth.