I know this has taken a while to get through, but BEWARE... Advanced Career Training (ACT) is a major ripoff!
I started classes there in October in their "acclaimed business progam of study", where "in nine months (my wife's pregnancy was more painful than this sickening program) YOU can get a specialized certificate in business!!! These are highly sought after by employers!". What a load of bullcrock! I dropped out after one class, at the advice of my current employer, who admitted that ACT was indeed a sham and that "no employer in their right mind would EVER accept a certificate from them" if they saw ACT on their resume.
After I dropped, I then received a bill for $6,680 from their corporate office in Atlanta. I called the campus and asked them what the meaning of this bill. All I got was "oh well... You dropped out and now you're responsible for the full cost of tuition." By now I was fuming and asked for a corporate telephone number, which I was transferred FIVE times and finally got of someone, after I explained my drop situation to them, who just casually said, "don't you complete what you started? You owe us the $6,680 and that's final." Click. No apologies. I called back again and got the same jerk on the phone..."don't you understand English? You owe us this and we expect payment, quitter!" Click. So I thought "forget about it" and went on... Until...
... The BIG LAWSUIT (threat) came in my mailbox.
There it was... in black, white, and red all over..."A LAWSUIT IS PENDING AGAINST YOU IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE THE SUM OF $6,680 DUE TO ADVANCED CAREER TRAINING" by some bogus law office in Atlanta. Don't these jokers know that the Georgia Bar can provide information on law firms? I checked this place out and all they were was a collection agency. I politely told them, with sarcasm, that it is ILLEGAL for a collection agency to act as a law office.
That just pissed ACT and this agency off just a little more as I refused to pay this debt and the agency lady "Jackie Smith" said "we'll garnish your wages! We'll sue you! We'll take your tax refunds!" Ha ha ha. Nice try. I let it all slide off my back like a duck. Six months passed by and apparently ACT didn't sue because yet another collection agency sent me the bill due and I contacted them, stating, "I refuse to pay this bill due." and the rep there said "okay" and hung up. Here it is three years later and no collection agency has ever sent me another letter. I even checked my credit report and nowhere was ACT, this bogus law office, and collection agency had ever reported this so-called $6,680 debt.
Today, all I can do is laugh when I see their commercial on TV during my lunch... How these law offices for "auto accidents" and schools promising "a better career" for the unemployed just prey and scam on people. Not laughing at the unfortunate, but laughing at the schools advertising their senseless crap.
Warning: stay away and far away from advanced career training! They are truly scam artists and does not live up to their name!!
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