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Ok, so who the heck are these people? My wife received an automated phone call stating that we had some unpaid debt and they want us to call back so we can work things out. So she hangs up on them mid call as soon as they said who they were, and says “It’s someone saying we owe them money”. I’m wondering why the heck she hung up and she told me who and that it was probably a scam or something. Being credit concientious I want to know who the heck they are and how to call them back to figure out what the hell they want. I sure as hell don’t want my credit report to get screwed up over some bull shit unpaid bill, but at the same time is this a scam? So I typed in Allied Interstate into google and find some interesting results.

This one is claiming that Allied attempted to get $47 in an unpaid AOL bill. The man called AOL to confirm this and AOL stated he didn’t owe a thing. Allied Interstate also tried to get the mans Credit Card info and bank account number.

Unpaid AOL bill

Here is another link in which Allied Interstate calls a judge and claims he owes money and the judge takes matters into his own hands and does some research. According to the story, Allied buys old collections reports for pennies not knowing if they are paid up or not and then tries to get money out of people.
Judge gets information Beware of Allied Interstate

Also if you go to this next link it has the phone numbers of all the offices. I called the California office knowing that it would still be open becaues it is some 3 hours behind. I talked to a lady there and gave her false information just trying to get some information on the company and how it works. She didn’t tell me a whole lot but did bull shit me a little bit by saying the phone number I called her at was the only one on the web. And she wasn’t sure why the different offices don’t communicate with one another. Each office is designated to certain company collections. For example the California office is in charge of Wast Management, and the India office is in charge of AOL collections. She gave me the phone numbers of India (800-209-3949) and Consumer Affairs (800-811-4214). I called Both and didn’t get anywhere with AOL other than them saying they can’t say a whole lot and Consumer Affairs just left me on hold for about 25 minutes and when I called back after this they were closed. Anyway, I will be trying to call them back. If you follow the next link they are on an Agency Avoidance List.

Agencies To Avoid including Allied

Oh yeah, and if anyone gets one of these phone calls, before you give them your info check your credit report. You can get them for FREE now because of a nifty law the government passed a couple years back. Just go to www.AnnualCreditReport.com

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