757-484-1123

Someone named Jena called me wishing me to make a final statement and saying she was going to file something in my county.  She did not give me a company name or the reason for the call.  Seems fishy

Woman called and left message for my husband.  Said she was looking for somebody named Gene/Jean with our last name.  Wanted a final statement for something that was going to be filed in a neighboring county.  Strange.

See previous message.  Checked out the call back number she left (877-484-5455).  Debt collection agency out of VA.  www.acceleratedfinancial.net

I guess they randomly call people with the same last name as the the person they are trying to locate.  What a great job that must be.

Hi I am an employee at Accelerated Financial Solutions in Ches Va and when I read these comments I was just shocked that so many people will do anything to get out of their debt, even getting on the internet and posting comments trying to make my company look fraudulent.  My company is a debt purchasing firm.  We purchase debt and if the debt is within the statue of limitations in that state the DEBTOR can be sued.  We have access to public records and that is how we find other contacts to the person.  THAT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL.  As far as our phone lines we do have about 4 or 5 because just like any other business that takes in bound calls you have to.  The names Jason Diggs and Erica Fox started showing up on caller Ids when we recently had a storm and that is actually being worked on by our phone company.  We have a website by the name of AcceleratedFinancial.net.  You can also read all about our business on that.  Thank You.

person called asking for Lori, said i was not Lori (i'm not) said well this is the number provided to us, I said well this is my work cell phone and has been for about four years.  The first time they called (last week) I didnt answer, they left a msg asking for lori and gave me a file #, i was going to ignore it until they called again.

Been getting calls from 877-484-5455 asking for me by name claiming they need to contact some person I've never heard of about some unknown issue that they need to file in my birth county (in another part of the country).  They gave no information as to what this was about, their company name or why I should care to speak with them.  Just that if I didn't call back then this unknown person's file was going to be processed.  ???  Sounds bogus and not legal enough that they are willing to risk mail fraud by sending me a letter describing what they are after.  They give 877-484-5455 as a return number.  Caller id is Out of Area.

The 877 number resolves to Accelerated Financial Systems.  The caller only gives a first name, but no last name or firm name.

Legitimate financial/legal business is handled through the US mail.  Not over the phone.

They keep calling me looking for someone i don't even know.  I've told them several times and they still call....up to 8 calls now.

Yeah they call me too.  Also about someone I've never heard of.  What's interesting is that 10 days ago they claimed that if I didn't return their call by 4:30pm that day, they were going to immediately file something with the county were I suppose this unknown person lives.  Clearly a scam so I think I'm going to contact my state DA's office about them.

Melissa left me a voice mail looking for my sister in-law who lives on the other end of the country, I haven't lived there for 20 years. Melissa claimed it was about a court case but she called on a gov't holiday so it was obviously bogus. I called them back, spoke to Daniel, he refused to tell me what this was about or what his company was and hung up on me twice.

Researched the number, it's a credit/collection agency even though Daniel claimed "It is nothing like that." Reverse lookup shows this number as a Verizon residential line. I wish I knew how to report them so they'd get their phone cut off.

we got a similar call today asking the same kind of questions. when my wife replied with "who?" they hung up her. we did not know the person in question. Called back...they said they would remove her from the list.

to strange...wonder what we should do?

agents name was  nicole

got a similar call today.  a person from the company called my father in law looking for my uncle.  Mind you my uncle and father in law live 4hrs from each other and have never met nor do they share the last name. Go figure.  They claimed to have been looking for me to get in touch with my uncle.  I told them good luck b/c I only see him 4x/yr.  Person's name was Dwight Williams but didn't tell me the company name either.  I googled it later. Accelerated Financial Solutions.  They answered the phone as legal dept and said they needed to speak with him regarding a pending lawsuit.

Got a call from some guy named Daniel Inge he is a dept collector threatening to sue me if I did not pay him. I have never heard of this company or a debt they say I owe. I tried to find out more information only he would not give it to me. I could only find one additional Daniel Inge in the 757 area code.

Daniel C Inge    (757) 868-8197    29 River Rd,Poquoson, VA 23662

I got a call from this company today looking for someone I have never heard of. They claimed he lived at my address. Then they called my neighbor across the street and asked her if she know this person at my address! How can we stop these people. I have good credit and don't want any problems from some bogus company looking for someone I have never heard of. Hey Law guy, did you contact your DA yet and if so what did they say?

Got a call from this company, and wanted me to verify last four digits of MY social security #! The 4 digits they asked me to confirm actually belonged to my ex (divorced over 14 years now!) Think the whole thing is a scam, ironically, same thing happened to my husband regarding HIS ex! I'm filing a complaint with the local law enforcement, and will let them know this if they decide to call again...

No matter what you have read above about this being a legit debt collector, these guys are shady dealers and scammers and if you get a call from them file a 1088 Complaint with the FCC at https://esupport.fcc.gov/form1088/consumer.do and if you are on the Do Not Call List, file a Complaint there too.  As the economy gets worse, more scammers are crawling out from under rocks.  SCAMMERS LIKE THIS NEED TO BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS

My name is Bill.  I am a Calif. attorney (one practice area of mine is illegal debt collection).  I have had my phone number for 5 years and it has been on the Do Not Call List for all that time.  But today I got a call from these yahoos at my phone number.  Caller ID showed 757-484-1123, with name as unknown.

I answer these types of calls because if they are telemarketers, I try and get info to go after them.  So I answered and it sounded like a telemearketer because you could hear all the chatter from other operators in the background.

They asked for someone named Mike (there is no Mike here).  I asked if they are a telemarketer, they said no and asked if I was Mike.  I again asked who they were and what they wanted and if they are telemarketers.  They again did not identify themselves and said the were not telemarketers and said they were going to file a court action on Mike to collect a debt and asked if I was Mike again.  I told them there is no Mike here and I have had this number for 5 years and hung up.  I googled the number and found the info here.

There are a few things you may be interested in as follows:  First, under both the Federal and CA State Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, if they call you on a legit debt, they must first identify themselves and more importantly the company they represent and inform you the call is concerning debt collection, without being prompted.  They didn't even give me the onfo when I asked them twice.  So there are 2 violations.  

Second, they never confirmed that I was Mike, but told me that they were collecting a debt against him.  Telling people other than the debtor that they are collecting a debt is another violation.

Third, maybe at some time someone by the name of Mike had this phone number and had a debt that needed collecting.  The problem is that I have had the number for 5 years and the longest Statute of Limitations for things like this is 4 years and it is illegal to attempt to collect a debt outside the Statute of Limitation.  Hence another violation.

Fourth, since to attempt to collect a debt outside the statute is a violation, that means they cannot file an action.  So under the Collections Act, you cannot threaten to file a court action against someone, if you have no intent of doing so.  Another violation. (Each violation carries per se damages of up to $5,000.00 per violation.

Fifth, even if they did file a bogus suit against you, all you would have to do is file a Demurrer under the Statute of Limitations, get it thrown out and then file a Malicious Procecution and Abuse of Process lawsuit against them.

Sixth, after reading on this site who they are, I remembered I represented someone about 5 years ago who was contacted by these guys in VA (via letter) trying to collect a debt from my client where the Statute of Limitations had run up 2 years prior.  I wrote them a letter outling this and they wrote back apologizing and saying they were not aware the debt was outside the Statute.  Yeah, right.

Hog wash.... they knew the debt was old and outside the Statute, because this is a scam business (I believe even 60 Minutes did a segment on it a while ago).  

What they do is buy up all this old debt for pennies on the dollar from legit businesses who would not collect on it because it is old.  The legit business is glad to sell it because they at least get something.  The collection company hires phone banks (like the one I listened to today) and these people call the phone number on the old debt (hoping it's current) trying to intimidate unsuspecting, and not legally knowledgable people into paying some or all of the debt to avoid court.

This is a sin and should be a crime.  So please if you get a call from these guys, file complaints to all the Government Agencies that will listen.  Let's put these bozos out of business.

Ha,

These guys at Accelerated Financial Solutions L.L.C, on this web site say they are legit and invite you to go to their web site.

So I went and they listed their email address.  I sent them an email with the text of what I just posted.  My email was returned to me as undeliverable as service unavailable.  

Now that sounds like a legit business to me... right.  Here is a copy of the return message:

The original message was received at Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:30:21 -0400 (EDT)
from root@localhost


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery.  The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered.  The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail
administrator or Postmaster at that destination.

--AOL Postmaster



 ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<help@acceleratedfinancial.net>

 ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.acceleratedfinancial.net.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 Message rejected.
554 <help@acceleratedfinancial.net>... Service unavailable


Final-Recipient: RFC822; help@acceleratedfinancial.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.acceleratedfinancial.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Message rejected.
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:30:39 -0400 (EDT)

Thank you so much Bill.  These vultures called one of my relatives today to try and track me down-- committed all the violations you mentioned previously.  Are you interested in the case?  Please leave a web address or perhaps a secondary e-mail address if you are able.  It is grotesque the self-righteousness some of these carrion pecking vultures display like the self-proclaimed "representative" above-- indignation as if THEY had been wronged by some debtor personally and are performing some virtuous wealth creating service to society.  If he/she can't imagine what some people will try to do to get out of debt, maybe he/she/it should go out and try and get a REAL job without health benefits, or two jobs at 39 1/2 hrs a week and put food on the table and medicine in the cabinet and clothes on their back and not use a credit card.  Woe be unto them when that job gets shipped to China!  If there's anything uglier than the crack peddling credit card companies it's the low-level street pimp thugs like Accelerated Credit who knowingly, intetionally and purposefully prey on the weakest of the weak exploiting their vulnerabilities to suck blood from a stone.  Karma's a [***] Accelerated and I'm sorry I missed your call today-- it's gonna be recorded when you ring again and I'm going to sue you with glee for FCPA violations.  I've done it before, and unlike you, I collected.  It's incredible what some people will do to make a fast buck, Accelerated.  At least what little money I earn is an honest living and by God you're not taking one red cent of it you lamprey-leeching bottom feeding maggots.

In the meantime folks, here's what you might do:

Take their phone numbers, FAX numbers etc. and put it into every damn telemarketers web-site info collection fields that you can find on the web.  Let them answer their phones all day and burn up their FAXes with someone trying to squeeze another dime out of their pocket and another minute out of their day.

It is said by the Federal Trade Commision that collectors cannot call a person's place of employment unless the employer permits such contact.  I am a federal employee.  Federal employers do not allow this kind of contact AT ALL.  They call my job (twice that I'm aware of over the last year and a half) asking for me without stating who they are or why they are trying to get in touch with me.  I know that they read this site so they better get through their heads that if they try calling me at work again I'm going to a lawyer to start my own lawsuit against them.  It's not that I wouldn't pay on a debt that's nearly a decade old if I could, but their methods of persuading those who are not in the know about their rights on this stuff to pay up is just wrong and in my case illegal.  Now these tards are sending me letters via a law firm to get me to start paying again.  Yea, they threatened serving me with court papers 3 years ago and nothing happened.  I tired of this and I'm going to head them off in their own game.

Scavenger collectors who buy old records. Most of the accounts are old and they are just betting you'll be scared and pay. Check your statute of limitations and FTC laws.

This is a scavenger collection agency using illegal practices, Check your statute of limitations.The "supervisor" identified himself as a Danny Inge, checking the Virginia State Police sex offender shows this fellow and lists his place of employment as Accelerated Financial Solutions. Are there laws that prohibit this person from having such personal records and access? Seems old Danny cant take no for an answer or remember to register twice....nice. And we are the criminals?