In May this company contacted me about a debt left over from a car repossession in California dating to July of 1993. They promised to settle the balance of $4400 for 50 percent of the total amount and would take payments of $550/month totaling $2200.
Less than 30 days after the last payment in August they called again and said no such agreement had been reached and that I still owed $2180.35. I informed them I didn't have another $2200 to give them yet and asked that they call me back in a couple of weeks—after unsuccessfully arguing that they'd made such a deal in the first place.
I contacted a former employer and closed out my 401K to obtain the funds to repay the debt. When I called Allied Interstate back this morning I found they no longer have any record of me, the debt, or anything. The operator I spoke with said that Allied had probably sent back (?) the debt.
Are these people trying to fraudulently collect on old debts, or what? Their behavior is highly suspect at this time and I think maybe they need to be formally investigated. The operators I spoke with in early September were able to tell me the name of the "supervisor" that handled the case—a Mr. Pierre—but wouldn't allow me to speak with him.
Nobody at this company wanted to give business addresses or other contact information which would have helped resolve my debt. The only way they would accept payment was by giving them check numbers of post-dated checks, complete with routing numbers. No mailing address was given for this company via telephone at any time.
Considering the effect that these people can have on people's lives, I feel that they are the most unprofessional individuals I have dealt with. They are an excellent example of why nobody likes debt collectors or the agencies they work for.
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