I received a summons to court for a debt to Bally Total Fitness for someone with a similar name to mine. We explained to the person serving the papers that I am not the person should have received this and that there has been a mistake, but took the papers and immediately called the Asset Acceptance lawyer sending the law suit to inform of the mixup. I thought this was an honest mistake and could quickly resolve, but I was wrong.
Once we received the summons, I immediately responded in writing to the Court saying that I am not who Asset Acceptance seeks. Turns out that even after speaking and sending letters to Asset acceptance and informing them of wrong person, they are still waiting to set a court date to sue me for a debt that does not belong to me (clean Credit reports - no Identity theft). I have also contacted a lawyer and he is ready in case they do give me court date. I DO NOT want to pay lots of money to a lawyer to defend me on something that DOES NOT even involve me. What can I do?
Thank you for posting the many Rip off reports about Asset Acceptance's shady practices. What else can I do with the FTC. Gov or other to force Asset Acceptance to drop this case and quit using my home address before they send a court date hearing?
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