It's time for anyone and everyone who has been ripped off or otherwise defamed by Sprint to take action. Therefore, I am now suggesting that anyone who has ever had a fraudulent collection placed on their credit report by a fraudulent bill (some may call it extortion... Pay us or we put a collection account on your credit report) to write to the following:
1. Your state Attorney General... Their offices are normally listed on your home state's website. Contact your AG with your complaint and tell them how Sprint is falsely billing you and extorting money from you. Enough complaints to the AG and Sprint could be relieved from doing business in your state!
2. The FCC. They should get a copy of a complaint stating that Sprint is selling their service in an area that they do not have licenses or coverage for. And they should be notified that Sprint is attempting to collect fees on non-existant service.
3. The SEC. Ask them to conduct an investigation on "accounting methods" used to "write off" "bad debts" owed to them when Sprint fails to verify the identity of those they sell service to. Maybe these numbers in the books on "sales" were used to inflate the "bottom line" and make PCS stock rise! I don't know if that is true, but maybe the SEC could get to the bottom of this! There are many consumers who have had thier identities either fraudulently used or submitted by Sprint's collections when attempting to collect on bad accounts.
Sprint can't even verify names and addresses on a credit report when activating service for applicants! If there is an error discovered when sending the debt to collections, they change the credit report of the individual they are trying to extort money from to reflect that individual resided at the address used when Sprint provided service fraudulently or to someone with a "like sounding name"!
4. While you are at it, the IRS. Yes, I'm sure they would like to know why Sprint gets "deductions" on "write-offs" and "bad debts" on accounts that they never should have opened in the first place! Why should the average taxpayer -you and me - pay taxes and let Sprint get away with reducing their taxes due to their negligence? If any of us are negligent and forget to carry the "3" on our tax return does that mean we get to pay only $ 2 in taxes April 15 or $302?
5. The Credit reporting Bureaus. They would like to know why Sprint is NOT verifying credit information when 1) opening accounts (they ask you for your SSN for a "credit check" and it amazes me how many complaints are on this site with rebuttles that state "your credit *sucked* that's why you get the ASL plan (even from those who have HAD perfect credit, that is before those individiuals dealt with Sprint) and
2) when trying to collect on "bad accounts". Sprint is opening up the Credit Reporting Bureaus to be exposed legally in their reporting of false data... Which, last summer, was the basis of a judgement against one of the CRB's for $5,300, 000! You think that enough complaints against Sprint to the CRB's would make the CRB's think twice about letting Sprint have access to a Credit Report after such awards? What do YOU think? Enough complaints here and "Collection Agencies" (who sometimes "purchase bad debt" at "pennies on the dollar") will stop "purchasing" all debt accounts from Sprint when they discover the "accounts purchased" are fraudulent, and won't EVER get paid due to an investigation by the agencies you write to about your individual experiences. (Here's how that works.
If Company A has a "debt" owed to them of $100.00, they may sell that "debt" to a "collection agency for $75.00, this way the Company A gets their money outright (not all of it, but can "write off" the $25.00 ON THEIR TAX RETURN, they get the $75.00 to mark as "REVENUE to the SEC on the accounting reports, even though the $75 (or $100) NEVER existed in the first place! Then you "pay this off" (sometimes after interest has collected on the "entire $100) to the collection agency (who makes $25 interest) to stop further efforts, and to keep good credit.) If it is later found out that the account was FRAUD, "Company A" still has $75 revenue, a $25 "loss" against that revenue while the collection agency is OUT $75, plus the labor to collect and investigate disputes!
6. Mention that you would like to find out how to file a RICO complaint against Sprint to your state or Federal District attorney in your letter to the Attorney General. District Attorneys handle CRIMINAL complaints, and investigate. This whole company and their collections enterprise sound like Organized Crime to me (I could be wrong again, you make up your own mind, or let the DA decide for you after you write to them)
It's time to get REAL results. Sprint couldn't care less about the individual complainant. But together all of us... During the month of February... Let's all get together and send a message to ALL 50 states AG's and everyone else above.
It's time WE are heard.
If anyone else visits other "sprint sucks" websites, feel free to copy this and SPREAD THE WORD! E-Mail to ANYONE you know who has ever dealt with or has Sprint service now!
And to be sure... Sent TWO copies of your colmplaints to the agancies listed above... One the day you get this... And another on February 28! Let's get THOUSANDS of letters flowing in about your experiences!
Sprint will NO LONGER be able to extort money from the victims of their negligence and false promises!
S w Kansas
U.S.A.
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