A favorite ploy of old debt buyers is the production of notarized affidavits when they sue or attempt to validate your alleged account. Within the affidavit they claim to have knowledge of the account and to be in possession of the documents which prove their statements to be truthful. There is only one problem with their scam–they never produce any documents or proof and are hoping that you will not challenge the veracity of their claims.
I have never seen any strategy more deceptive and fraudulent than what these clowns try to pull off as legitimate. They have their own employee swear that he or she knows the circumstances of the account without any documentation and then have the “chutzpah” to file this document with their court papers when they sue. Of course any judge with a brain throws this stuff right out. So the word is watch out for phony affidavits.
Here is a list with contact information of the worst offenders who employ the use of phony affidavits with regularity:
Academy Collections
10965 Decatur Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19156
Phone: (800) 220-0605 Fax: (215) 281-7512
Account Management Services
10965 Decatur Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19156
Phone: (800) 220-0605, Fax: (215) 281-7512
65 Great Arrow Ave.. Buffalo, NY 14216
Phone: 716-874-8348 Fax: 716-447-8059
aka Account Management Services Of North America, LLC
aka Account Management Services Of New York, LLC
aka Account Management Services Of Western New York, LLC
aka Account Management Services Rochester LLC
aka Account Management Services, LLC
Account Solutions Group
205 Bryant Woods South, Amherst, New York 14228
Phone: (800) 741-8860 Fax: (716) 564-4440
Alegis Group, LP/Sherman Financial Group
260 E. Wentworth Ave., West St. Paul, MN, 55118
Bank of America Building, 200 Meeting St., Suite #206,
Charleston, SC 29401-3187
15 South Main Street, #600, Greenville, SC 29601
Phone: 888-665-0374 864-678-8421 877-264-5884
Fax: 888-546-7697 864-370-4998
aka LVNV Funding, LLC; aka Sherman Financial Group, LLC;
aka Ventus Capital Services; aka Performance Recovery Group;
aka Receivables Management Solutions
dba Resurgent Capital Services, LP; dba Alegis Group, LLC
fka Sherman Acquisitions
AFNI, Inc.; fka/Anderson Financial Network, Inc.
404 Brock Drive, Bloomington, IL 61701
Phone: 866-633-4384 309-828-5226 800-767-2364 888-338-2364
Fax: 877-435-8073 309 828-0931
Alliance One, Inc.
4850 Street Road, Level C
Trevose, PA 19053
Phone: (484) 531-5000 Fax: (484) 531-5057
AMO Recoveries
1825 Barrett Lakes Blvd., Ste 250
Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
Phone: (770) 825-8032 Fax: (770) 825-8040
aka / Asset Management Outsourcing Recoveries, Inc. AZ Corp
fka / Nationwide Recovery Service, Inc.
Arrow Financial Services
5996 W. Touhy Avenue, Niles, Illinois 60714
Phone: (847) 557-1100 Fax: (847) 647-1215
Asset Acceptance Corporation
28405 Van Dyke Avenue, Warren, Michigan 48092
Phone: (586) 446-7818 Fax: (586) 846-7837
Allied Interstate, Inc.
435 Ford Rd. #800, Minneapolis, MN 55426-1066
Phone: (952) 546-6600 Fax: (952) 595-2311
Attention, L.L.C.
2812 Spring Road #250, Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Phone: (877) 623-4892 Fax: (678) 924-3336
The Bureaus, Inc.
1717 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201
Phone: (847) 328-4300 Fax: (847) 328-4151
Collect America aka CACV aka CACH, LLC
370 17th Street, Suite 5000, Denver, CO 80202-3050
Phone: (303) 296-3345 Fax: (215) 281-7522
Cavalry Portfolio Services, LLC
4050 Cotton Ctr Blvd, Phoenix, Arizona 85040
Phone: (602) 667-0128 Fax: (602) 667-0686
eCast Settlement
383 Madison Ave 10th Fl, New York, New York 10179
Phone: none Fax: none
ER Solutions
500 SW 7th St #A-100, Renton, Washington 98057
Phone: none Fax: none
Financial Credit Services aka/Portfolio Exchange
627 W Colonial Pkwy, Palatine, IL 60067
Phone: 847-963-1200 800-706-3401 Fax: 847-991-3462
GC Services
6330 Gulfton, Houston, TX 77081
Phone: (713) 777-4441 Fax: (713) 776-6689
MRS Associates, Inc.
3 Executive Campus, #400, Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08002
Phone: none Fax: none
Moore, Gerald E. & Associates
2253 Northwest Pkwy #300B, Marietta, Georgia 31139
Phone: (678) 385-5340 Fax: (678) 385-5350
2221 New Market Parkway, Suite 115, Marietta, GA 30067
Phone: (800) 466-1505 Fax: (678) 385-5343
NCO Financial Systems
507 Prudential Rd, Horsham, PA 19044-2308
Phone: (215) 441-3000 Fax: (215) 441-3923
aka OSI / Outsourcing Solutions Inc.
aka OSI Collection Services Inc.
200 S Executive Dr, Brookfield, WI 53005-4216
Phone: (262) 784-9035 Fax: (262) 787-7429
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
120 Corporate Blvd., Norfolk VA 23502
Mailing address: PO Box 12914 Norfolk VA 23541
Phone: (800) 772-1413 Fax: (757) 321 2504
Scherr, Harold E., Attorney
300 Primera Blvd #356, Lake Mary, Florida 32746
Phone: (407) 786-4244 Fax: (407) 595-3100 or (407) 786-2993
The Credit Store
3401 N. Louise Ave., Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57107
Phone: none Fax: none
Unifund Group
10625 Techwoods Circle, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
Phone: none Fax: none
Westmoreland Agency/Capital One Bank
1011 West Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23285
Phone: none Fax: none
Wolpoff & Abramson
702 King Farm Blvd. Ste 500, Rockville, MD 20850-5775
Phone: (240) 386-3000 800-850-0948 800-303-0930
800-678-7720 800-365-6584 888-200-4417
Fax: (240) 386-3822 240-386-3823
Worldwide Asset Purchasing, LLC
2 Ravina Drive, #1750, Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Phone: none Fax: none
November 12th, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Hi Robert,
I want to thank you for the information that you have on youe site, I just wanted to tell you that just this am I was served a summons for a small claims court appearance for one of these lowlifers, they are suing me with all the wrong information, the account is not even my account. How do you like that. Thanks again.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Thank you for your comments Al. If you really want to arm yourself and put these morons in their place just check out my materials at http://stopthecallsfast.com
January 12th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Hudson and Keyse is another one. I reviewed affidavits on nearly all the cases filed in this county by H&K, and found that each and every one of them were problematic. Nancy Quere is on a roll!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 PM
I have been threatened with felony fraud charges by NCO the collection agency for a past due Chase Card. They even threatened to have my 73 year old mother taken to jail as the co-card holder. As far as I know this is a civil claim not a criminal claim. In order to make the claim criminal NCO asked my mother to sign a fraud affidavit against me.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:38 PM
If I got sued by one of these crooks, then I would countersue for fraud upon the court (which, of course, they would deny) and ask for 3 times treble damages. Then I would make them prove up their affidavit during the discovery phase. That alone would probably get the case dismissed when they realize you’re on to their con.
Plus, the creation of credit is not authorized by law (See First National Bank of Minnesota vs. Jerome Daly, 1969), so how can any debt collector legally make a demand? That one always stumps them.
If the case went to trial, request to cross-examine the affiant (who probably doesn’t exist), and if so, has NO first hand knowledge of the account. They are just a custodian of records. These types of custodial affidavits are hearsay. You can pretty much use them as toilet paper, but I prefer Charmin.
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