9052963027

And when I called the number back, it said I've reached a voicemail service that has not been initialized by the customer.

Stephen Walters is a lawyer out of Mississauga. He owns the collection agency calling everyone. The agency is at 8 main st in Hamilton, no sign out front for obvious reasons.

I'm going through the same thing with the same company

Yes I agree she pulled the same crap on me as well she called my house my cell phone and yet leaving me a message and then out of nowhere she was able to get ahold of me she told me that MDG said I owe them about $2,000 on the television that does not even work properly, now I got the same letter, lol if they take me to court I am counter suing.

I got a call from her too in regards to MDG, the biggest con artists in the world, I have already paid more than the original contract but they still want more.  That is because MDG plays so many games as in loved finding all sorts of hidden charges.  Anyone ever hear a set up fee take 3 years??  I just wonder how they could get money from a rock when a person lives on Government Assistance.  Told her to go ahead and call my employer.  Don't think the government has tome for this.  Won't fill you in on all the other garbage.  So Ms Smit can send out more forms letters unfortunately none of what she says is possible.  Also they look so professional when you get a sticker with the return address typed on it and the letter looks and feels like photocopy paper and doesn't even have a watermark on it.  Looks very professional and filled with lots of employees if she is the only one who seems to be dealing with everyone

she (Michelle) from Stephen Walters Law Office called ... I have no idea what she wants. Reading through comments the idea that she is contacting previous clients of Premier Gym???  Never heard of them and have never been a member of any gym...

Story from the Kingston Whig Standard May 5 2012

More than five years after he cancelled his membership at a now-defunct Kingston fitness club, a local man is being threatened by a collection agency to pay up.

"I was really surprised. I was just completely floored," said Scott Bleecker after getting the call last week from a woman at a Hamilton law firm.

The phone call was followed this week by a letter of "demand for payment."

"She said she represented Premier Fitness and that I owed them $842.09. If I had proof I had cancelled it to send it to them, otherwise they would do what they stated in this letter," said Bleecker.

Those threats included "legal action," notifying credit bureaus "of your failure to pay," garnisheeing his wages and, for good measure, to "notify your employer."

If they phone Bleecker's employer, it will mean a call to the Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police detachment where he is a long-serving sergeant.

As upset as he is by the call, Bleecker is genuinely concerned for his financial records.

"Once it gets in the credit bureau, it's next to impossible to get it off," he said.

Bleecker contacted his lawyer in Kingston who is sending a letter of response to the collection agency

Then he went to the Whig-Standard, suspecting that other people in the city are being targeted the same way.

The nightmare started for Bleecker in the fall of 2006 when he was thinking about joining a new fitness club.

He was in the Frontenac Mall where Premier Fitness, a new player in town, was selling memberships in an empty store space.

He decided to sign on, giving the staff a void cheque so Premier could make the monthly withdrawals from his bank account.

Bleecker never got to use his membership.

"I never went at all. I injured myself back in December 2006. I was off work for five and a half months on morphine," he recalled.

In February 2007, Bleecker went to the club and filed his termination with a staff member named Dave Willard.

"He phoned their head office and asked them to cancel. I presumed that would be the end of it," he said.

It wasn't.

In June 2007, Bleecker volunteered for a two-week deployment in northern Ontario. He was checking his bank account one day and found an unauthorized debit for $842.09.

Bleecker called his bank and had the money returned, but the claimant was persistent.

"They did it two or three more times in less than a month. I remember feeling kind of helpless," said Bleecker. "Each time the bank put the money back in the account."

When he got the collection call last week, he was livid.

It came from a woman named C. Nourian, he believes the first name is Claude, who works for a collections group affiliated with a lawyer in Hamilton named Stephen Walters.

Nourian confirmed to Bleecker that she was collecting for Premier Fitness.

She wanted the cash, bank draft or certified cheque made out to "Stephen Walters Professional Corporation, in Trust."

On the letter sent to him last week, the client being represented is listed as "Premier & Curzons Group O."

"I was angry," he said.

"She told me to calm down. I said, 'Don't tell me to calm down when you're calling about a debt from five years ago that I don't owe,'" Bleecker said.

On March 7, the Kingston branch of the Premier chain closed its doors in the Frontenac Mall.

Earlier in the year, Premier had gone into receivership for owing a reported $38 million in defaulted loans.

A deal to sell to the chain of 30 facilities to Physiomed Fitness fell through.

The Whig-Standard attempted twice to contact Stephen Walters at his Hamilton office, left messages, but received no response.

Bleecker did manage to find the letter of cancellation he brought in to Dave Willard. It is dated Feb. 8, 2007.

It will be sent to the collector along with his lawyer's letter calling on the company to cease its action.

"I have a feeling there's a lot of other Kingstonians that have heard or are going to hear from them," Bleecker said. "I suspect there are a lot of other people who properly cancelled their membership and figured it was over and done with."

paul.schliesmann@sunmedia.ca

I received a call from regarding an account with MDG that ended in december of last year now they want 900 dollars  to  close the account and it wont affect my credit but MDG dosent even report to any credit bureau as I have asked them many times now this MICHELLE SMIT person is saying different I have a funny feeling

Received wrong number to callback

Intimidating and abusive. Cannot even confir with whatever SHE is. BLOCK. BLOCK. BLOCK, forever.

Yes,  she want me to send $ directly to her office. That is not normal protocol as far as I am concerned.  She will never get a reply from me.
She's nasty.

I got a call today from this agency regarding a “claim that had been put on her desk” luckily I do not answer my calls to my cell phone.

It is common for collection agencies to call claiming to be representing a law office ( it somehow makes them sound more intimidating)

Something you should know about collection agencies- once a debt has been passed on to them, the debt has been written off by the original creditor, it has already gone as a default on your credit score which will take 7 years to fall off.

The people calling  from Stephen Walters are just glorified telemarketers trying to make commission off you.

getting the same calls about MDG computers. threats from walters office. Did they persue any of you guys?