I received a loan from Bernadr Jonson for a loan of 10,000. The check did not clear. The bank it was written on states its fraudulent. I don't have any money to give the bank? Please help!
The lender stated his check is good and is working to resolve it but in the meanwhile my bank wants there money now!

I have a medical debt that was accumulated because my insurance had been canceled 4 days prior to my hospital visit. The total of the bill came to 10,000. I wasnt told my insurance wasnt approved until after i had left the hospital. I applied for medical assistance because i dont have the money to pay for the bill. I was refused medical assistance because of a balance held in an account by a relative that is being left to me in the future. They had given me the payment option to put down half of the debt and pay 400/month until it was gone. I couldnt afford this either so i began to pay what i could every month about 100/month. I just received a call from a collection agency stating that they have sent my debt to collections. They are telling me that i have to pay the debt within the next 6 months. They discounted the debt and the total is now 7,000. They want 1000/month and it to be paid off on the 6th month. I however cannot afford this either. What are my options? What will they do when the 6 months are up and i still cant pay?

well i'm a 21 yr old student. meaning that i make about 1000 a year if i'm lucky. i left fairleigh dickinson university thinking i had a student loan to cover their bill but i found out between them and sallie-mae they never accepted the loan and threw it out. aparently fairleigh never gave sally the ok to take the loan and sally had some incomplete info on the form but never notified me, but they gave me an aproval letter. fast forward to march, i owe 30,000 and they want it yesterday they say. they cal like crazy and harrass me and keep asking for money or for me to get money from my mom/dad/whomever. again i got nobody just me. now after i paid 500 a month till today (got a job to pay them but its temoray and ending), they want to sue me for the remaining balance. i'm in CA and i was in NJ before. also this bill isn't considered a education loan or a promisary notice or anything. its just outstanding debt i guess. thats all the facts. help?? please someone?

I went to a business school years ago. I went on a leave for 30 days. When I returned
1 week later we were taken into meetings and infrmed the school was being closed.
We were told we would recieve additional information in the mail due to the cost
of school and being able to go to another school.

I was told if a school closed before completion you do not have to pay the school loan.
I have a friend that knows someone who had their loan forgiven. I am trying to find
out where to get the details to end the collection on the school loan.

My ex wife took out a loan in 1999 and I co-signed. We paid on the loan for a year or two and then we seperated. She stopped paying the loan and I had creditors calling for me. It was put in the divorce that she pay the remainder of the loan. She promised them a payment and I think sent them one payment resulting in activity on the loan in 2002. She never made another attempt. 2 years later she filed for bankruptcy and remarried. Fast forward into now. I have a company (Credit One) calling me wanting to collect. They are saying with accrued interest in brings the balance to around $2000 but they will settle with me for a $1000. I told them all I was willing to give them to make this go away was $500 dollars as I feel this is not my debt. They told me that since she filed and it was joint it did not matter, I was responsible. So, I got into a little argument with the supervisor on the phone. He told me I could make payments, which I told him no. He then wanted me to go out and refinance my house and I told him hell no. He also told me to go and get a cash advance on one of my other credit cards to pay this off. I told him all I was doing was offering $500 to be done with it, and if he did not like that then I did not know what to tell him and he hung up on me. Do you have any ideas on how I can make this go away?? I am not paying the full balance of $1000 if it is not my debt in the first place. Thanks for your time!

My husband has a card sears talked him into to buy a lawn mower last year was suppose to be zero percent interest for a year after year u start paying interest. well this month we get a bill for 1200.00 for they say interest for whole year that was zero which is not what we were told by sears. sears says talk to citi citi says talk to sears neither company will show us copy of what my husband supposedly signed they both say they dont have it.. We have never been late til this month but we dont have that much laying round. and we get 100 calls a day,, and my husband was trying to tlak to them about tit n had 2 reps hang up on him. what can we do???

My sister received a call from a law firm who stated that she had a bad check from July 2006, and she needs to pay this law firm $190 to handle this matter or they will go to court. The orginal check was for $40 dollars. She said she never received anything from a Collection Agency regarding this matter. Do you have any legal rights in this matter?

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I have great credit after working hard to get it back for the last 10 yrs after a divorce. I noticed a couple days ago that my credit score went down so I pulled my credit and much to my surprise a collection co has put something on. It said it placed for collection 12/07, I have never recieved anything but dont even live in that state anymore. I dont know what this is and if it is something that happened that didnt get paid I havent used this hospital for about 9 yrs so I k now this would go way back. My question is how can they report this to my credit now, Im sure this was bought by now . Where do I start? I am so angry about my credit..Thanks for any help.

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I have a credit card with Washington Mutual i received back about 2003 for $2500. I eventually maxed it out and in 2005 after college I stopped paying because I was unemployed for a while. They kept adding finance charges, late fees and over limit fees and they closed the account. Eventually they put me on a program for 6 months direct withdrawal to get current and after that I continued paying the minimum because that was all i could afford and still getting all those fees, it seemed like the debt as never being reduced. Somewhere in 2007 I started paying lots on it so i could only get finance charges and they of course increased the interest rate a million times.

At the end of 2007 I was layed off and stopped paying, they said they sent me to collections, so the collections agency calls me 8 times a day, and i get mail from them attempting to collect, meanwhile I am getting letters from Washington Mutual saying I owe them and they are still adding finance charges. Also the address to send payments is the same as Washington Mutual payment address!

Can they really do this? keep increasing the amount while claiming they sent it to collections, call me 6 - 8 times a day and leave me messages. Over these years I am very sure I have paid them more than the amount I owe!!! times 10! How do I get them to send me to a regular collection agency with one final amount that I can pay off. I will gladly pay thm and get them out of my life !!!!!!!!!

If I've already paid a collection agency to settle a debt, but then come into possession evidence that I wasn't liable for the debt in the first place. Can I get my money back from the collections agency?

The situation was that the I had a collections item of $1844 on my credit report that the credit agency claimed was a result of failing to release liability in a car that my ex-gf had sold (we had our names on the title together). The new owner ended up getting the car towed and scrapped by a tow company and the debt was sold off to a credit agency and somehow got attached to my credit. I was in the process of buying a home and was told that I had to pay off this collections item during escrow. I talked to my ex-gf about this and she didn't give much help or evidence that can clear my credit. I tried to get proof of a release of liability from the DMV to refute this charge, but the DMV took forever and I ended up having to pay the collections amount because I had to close escrow on my home. I have just received from the DMV a certified copy of the release of liability that should clear this collection from my credit (I thought that my ex-gf didn't fill this out and that I/we were actually liable for this debt, but I was surprised to see it). Is there anyway that I can get my money back?

The payment is actually in the mail right now and hasn't been cashed yet. I'm trying to have the title company cancel the check (title company issued a check to the credit agency). But what if they refuse to help me. I'd like to know what else that I can do to get my $1844 back.

Any insight would be appreciated.

After falling behind in my credit card payments due to my disability, my family and I had been receiving more than ten phone calls a day by Capital One's collection department. My children are being harrassed by the credit card collectors, sometimes my thirteen year old son answers the phone and the collection agent is very intimidating. This has been going on for more than a month, I do not know who I must contact or if there is a government Agency that I can report this abusive practice, please help!

I had a credit card that was defaulted on in 2003 and then I entered into a debt management program in 2004. Due to unemployment i was unable to successfully complete the DMP...anyway, I am now being contacted by the scumbags Gerald E. Moore and Associates which I am assuming is about this debt because I have paid everything else off. They have only called by phone, and i never answer their calls as they are not licensed in the state of MN, but have not sent one thing in writing so i can ask them to validate the debt. The credit card was issued over the phone when i was in high school, i never "applied" for or signed anything, the credit card has gone through a number of different owners since i defaulted, and the debt has been bought and sold numerous times by no less than 6 debt collectors. The weird thing is that there is no record of this account anywhere on any of my three credit reports, or on a copy of a credit report that i looked over at a credit union last year for a car loan.....what happened to the account? Shouldn't the original credit card account still be there since the 7-year period for reporting hasn't expired? I wanted to look for verification of last payment and possible re-aging by this DC in case this goes to court.

I have been divorced from my ex wife for 5 years now. Its been awful everytime I turn around she is wanting more and more from me, in the name of our daughter. I have been very adimit about making child support payments and keeping track of every dime I give her, even when she askes me to pay for her and her husbands electric bill. Anyway the other day she got a letter from a collection agency in my name, she of course opened it (by the way I have never lived at her address she has moved in just recently) and she of course called me saying she opened it on accident then proceded to tell me the collection agency and told me I needed to take care of this. Well I did call the company only to find out that the account was defintly in my name but the address they had was ones that my ex lived at and I have never had an account with the company that they are saying it is with, (its a cell phone company, the same one my ex had until she could not pay the bill and switched company's) So my suspision is that she has used my name and ss# to get this account. What do I need to do to to prove that this is not my bill, that she has been using my info for her benefit? And are there any legal steps I can take to make her stop?

Desperate to be happy.

Could someone explain to me how Bank of America can sell a closed at zero balance account to another entity as a debt and then have it go to collections? The Bank of America must have some liability in these matters. Right?

I returned a leased vehicle 10 years ago and paid over $1200 in mileage overage. Six months later I get a letter from Ford Motor Credit saying I owed an additional $438. I sent them my lease termination papers showing the mileage at termination along with a letter from the dealer saying that the lease was paid in full. The person handling the account at Ford promised to close the account. 1 year later I received my first collection letter. In trying to reach the same gentleman at Ford MC, I found that he was no longer with the company. So I sent copies of the lease termination Zero Balance letter, and correspondence with FMC to to Collection Agency. They didn't call again. But the account was resold. I've now had to send "proof" of the paid account to more than 8 collection agenices, and a new one just phoned this evening. Ford Motor Credit claims they do not own the debt and the Collection agency just needs to issue a close code. They never do - they just resell the account. This latest agency didn't even send a letter so I don't have their reference account number. They refused to give me any information because I wouldn't give them my SSN over the phone. (Hey, if they are collecting they should already know it.) The only way I knew it was the same debt is that it's the only possibility -- as I always pay on time.

How can an accounting error turn into a 10 year nightmare with no end? Isn't there any way to stop this?

I have a credit card company that is threatning to send it to a lawyer if I don't pay the full amount of 7950. They have investigated my life and found out I am married etc.. We live in california and are saying we have communial property and that they will end up suing my husband to get the debt. All this debt was aquired prior to marriage and it is only my name on the debt, any assests he has were before marriage as well as the one after I signed my name off of the title. Can they still come after my husband and if so can they get the money from him or will they just forget or let me pay it my self. Please help. Wife that is devistated it will hurt our entire family for financial debt prior to marriage and family

When I was back in college, I got a line of credit for $50,000. I only spend about $4000 of the line of credit. This was back in 2001, and in November 2008, the credit report I have, shows that it will be final after that. I am worried that it will not go away though. Am I going to still have to pay? I got a call from a credior, that bought my credit, and he said that he was prepared to take legal action if I did not answer his call soon, and gave me a case number to refer to when returning his call. Should I contact a lawyer and have them straighten things out? Or should I just call myself? Or should I not bother to call at all because it will all be gone by November 2008 because of the statute of limitations in my state???? I do not want to go to court. I moved from my house, so I have no idea if they have been sending me anything in the mail, since I did not have anything forwarded. Can someone please write me and let me know?! I am VERY scared and I feel completely clueless. I am on the verge of tears right now, and I can't be like this, it's just too much. I just want someone to help me who knows what the hell they are talking about. I keep getting conflicting responses.

My husband's step son and ex wife used his social security number and forged his signature on a credit card with MBNA. Although I have written numerous letters to the credit reporting agencies and MBNA, I get no respone. I have requested copies of the credit application and transactions but I get nothing.

I received a summons for my credit card debt from 2003. If I don't respond to it what can they do.

I had an account with McLeod USA for 2 1/2 yrs. My contract was for 2 but then they put me on a month to month and my charges were still the same. Then I got an agreement in the mail "I agree to renew under my expired contract rates". Which, to me means nothing would change on my bill. I still called their Customer care, TWICE, and both times they stated nothing on my bill would change. My next bill I got went from $66.92 to $212. Of, course, I thought there was a typo, to I called Customer care and they said that the promotional discount was taken away and the best plan they had for me was approx. $100/local line (I had 2 lines). Ridiculous????, Not yet. So then I said that I can't afford to pay that everymonth for a simple service where nothing has been added on. They said they can't do anything. So I called AT&T and signed on with them and canceled with McLeod USA. Then they sent me a final demand letter with my invoice 2 mths later and threaten to send me to collections. So I dispute the claim, upon advice from a McLeod USA rep. I was willing to pay for what I used at the same rate I was paying prior to the confusion. No Luck. I am now in collections and they already reported to credit agencies. Can they do that while in dispute??? Can they contact me after sending me to collections??? Collections was supposed to send me a settlement which states they will take my name off the credit agencies and the matter will be settled for an amount we verbally agreed upon and the matter will be paid in full. Has been a week, haven't heard back from them. Any helpful advice from the universe???

My daughter owed some money on a credit card which was charged off by the Bank. She has not paid any money on this account for over two years. A collection agency bought the debt and sued her in the name of the bank. Is this legal?

I keep reading "GET YOUR CREDIT REPORT FROM THE REPORTING AGENCIES' Well I've been trying in the case of Equifax for a couple years now and they refuse to send it--refuse to acknowledge the documentation and letters I sent (certified, return receipt on one) and the other day when I went to the free annual credit report site--GUESS WHAT--now all three of the creeps refuse to give my reports. Oh yes I reported Equifax to the FTC. Of course they did nothing. Can I sue these b---- for driving me crazy.

I was contacted by this "junk" collector and they said that I owed thousands of dollars for a Pacific Bell account that I did not open. this account was opened in Nov. 2003 and is for CA and I live in MI. I found out that Pacifc Bell sold my info to a Midland Credit Management adn now MCM is trying to sue me for the amount. I am trying to prove it was identity theft but it hard to do. I am scared about what could happen to me if I losebecasue I did recieve a summons and I think soon I will have a trial. I have filed reports with the FTC adn the three major credit bureaus and have been collecting proof of my residence at the time this account was open. Does anyone know if I am able to go after Pacifc Bell for letting this happen in the first place??? I know it would be a long shot but.... anything is possible. Right??

In 1999 I defaulted on an auto loan because I could no longer afford the chapter 13 payments. This account bounced around with different agencies and now it landed in the hands of another, junk debt buyer. This collection agency reported to all 3 bureaus that it is an account opened in 2006 and that payments were made during a 3 month period, (basically trying to re-age the account), I have never spoken to or otherwise made any payment to anyone in regards to this debt, other than to send cease communication letters. They have reported it as if I opened a new account with them and it is 5 years since the default/charge off.
I have sent them a letter demanding that theyremove the fraudulent reporting to all three bureaus.
What can I do?

My ex-wife and I were divorced over a year ago, and as a result of the divorce, she was no longer eligible for my insurance benefits, we sparated all credit cards, etc. Now, a few weeks ago, I received a bill in the mail from a lab showing me as the responsible party for a $129 doctor visit listing the patient as my ex-wife. Of course, the insurance company rejected this claim. Yesterday, I got a fraud alert in the mail from a credit card company that an online application was submitted to try and obtain a $5000 credit card. The applications was sumbitted with all of my info, and listed HER as the co-card holder, and the application was submitted with her address. So, there were not any charges made to the card bc the credit card compnay caught it before then. I have already alerted all pf the proper credit companies.... And the last issue, which I think I am out of luck with..... she and I have a verbal agreement that she is to pay back $3000. After the divorce, a couple automatic deposits went into her account that shouldn't have. She knew these were suppose to stop the day of the divorce, but never said anything. Thank God I caught it when I did, but does our verbal agreement bind her to anything?.........what are my legal options regarding these issues?

I had a chargeoff on a credit card in 2003 and a company bought the chargeoff. The original amount was around $6000.00. This is on my credit report of course but now this other company has placed the same account on my credit report but they have it at $14,000.00 It has a different number and it now appears that i have two chargeoffs in the amount of around $21,000.00. How can this be legal?

I've got a couple questions about my credit report, but first let me give you some background information. When I first left high school and endured life at college I went a little credit happy and had five credit cards and a couple other open lines of credit. I then fell into the downward spiral of credit debt and wasn't able to pay any of them, let alone afford my living expenses. This was in the fall of 2001, and I'm just now starting to get on my feet, financially, and I'm trying to straighten everything out. What I'm wondering is, now that it's been almost 7 years plus the 180 days since my last payments, am I still liable for the debt? The accounts have been bought and sold to collection agencies many times over the years, so I'm wondering if the 7 year mark starts over each time this happens. I'm getting conflicting corespondence and I want to know the bottom line. Can I legitamatly have the accounts removed from the credit report without paying a dime, or am I going to have to pay the debt? In addition, I have current school loans on my credit report but there are some duplications. How do I go about desputing these in order to prevent future "bad" applications?

Just now a person calling left a message on my aunties house all the way from las vegas and i live here in HAWAII. She stated on the answering machine that she is looking for me and if i dont call back we will prosicute against you. Its a shame telling my auntie them ad they know whats going on. I also told her not to call my fathers job and she still did. She told me if i dont pay this debt by today properties can be taken, wat ever that means. I just read the law about collection agency and what they cannot do. I think something had been violated and im mad about it. i only have one day from the phone call to pay it wow by today. On my behalf im so poor and so are my family, she needs a check today or else they will prosecute against me for fraud because i sent a bounced check accidently i gave them my wrong check book. Now im screwd i feel so depressed and scared she really is scaring me its so dramatic. I wish i could just get a loan to pay off all the debt. I'm so young i cant even concitrate now. Im only 19 and i already got debt collectors calling for me. And what sucks is shes on New York time and im on Hawaii time so its 6 hours differents and she said shes gonna close soon so she needs an answer. PLEASE HELP

I'm trying to clean up my act and I'm doing great so far, but...
Last year a collections lawyer called and said I'd have to pay him for 2 deliquest credit cards (card 'A' and 'B') or he'd sue. I was scared and wanted it done with so I paid both off. Now, on a couple of my credit reports it has the original deliquencies and that they were sold to an agency and written off. Then, another deliquency shows up from the collection agency for card 'A' saying it was paid off, and card 'B' payoff is nowhere to be seen.
I feel as though by paying off the agency it did nothing but create another deliquency. Is there any way I can get the original credit cards to acknowledge on my report that they were in fact paid and not just sold off and forgotten? Do I contact the agency and ask what happened to card 'B's payoff, or will that just add yet another deliquency?
I'm trying to do the right thing but I feel like I'm just shooting myself in the foot!

I had a $500 credit card with Bank of America. I mainly used the account for books for school. I started to pay it off but I was in school full-time and I couldn't work. Of course interest charges and late fees began to build up my total balance was around $900. I ended up settling back in 2005 for 450 dollars. Experian Says I have a balance of Zero AND THAT IT WAS PAID OFF BUT Experian and Trans Union still say I owe money. What should I do?

I received a letter from a collection agency with an amount that they say I owed. I pulled my credit report from all three agencies and according to the reports, the account in question showed I've never owed any money with the balance of $0. Also, the account has been closed for almost 3 years. Why would a collection agency send me a letter saying I owe this money? What should I do about this problem?

Our son, (after his wife left him), basically went off the "deep end." He used our name and bought lots of "stuff" including a new BMW car. The car got repossessed because he left his job, etc., etc., and there was about a $17,000 balance left on the car in OUR name. He went into a depression that left him without work and on medication for the last year. He just now got a job again but his life is still a mess and he needs basic money to live on let alone paying us back for all the damages he has done. We are paying $2600 per month in credit card payments on what he charged while he went crazy. We cannot afford to pay anything on this car that we don't have anyway.

The company who financed it wrote the loan off as a loss and sold it to a collection agency. Of course, it is in our name and they call us for the money. If the loan has been charged off and the car repossessed, what kind of authority does the collection agency have over us? We have no money to pay any additional debt and neither does our son right now. We are hoping that after he gets on his feet he will be able to pay off the current credit cards let alone a car that has been repossessed.

Please help.

How long does a charge off account stay on file with the credit bureau account, once you have payed off the collection agency to whom your debt was sold too?

My husband's step son and ex wife used his social security number and forged his signature on a credit card with MBNA. Although I have written numerous letters to the credit reporting agencies and MBNA, I get no respone. I have requested copies of the credit application and transactions but I get nothing. This credit card keeps showing up on our credit record but we have never gotten a bill. They have also sold this account to several collection agencies. The interest charges are mounting and they are dinging our credit. What should we do?

Many, many years ago, when I was a lot younger and far less credit-savvy, I made the mistake of applying for one of those credit cards for people who have little credit or need to improve their credit. You know the ones I'm talking about - they have really minimal credit lines, and it costs a hefty "credit acceptance fee" to get it. That, and a "credit limit increase fee" when they approve you for a higher credit limit. You start out with something like a $250 limit, of which $200 is already used up in fees before you even get to use the card for the 1st time, and each time they increase your credit limit, the same thing happens - the majority of your increase is eaten up in fees, too. I took out both a MasterCard and a Visa account with the same bank (Cross Country), and ultimately screwed up the accounts to where they closed them. These accounts were closed back in 1998, over 7 years ago. I've had the charge-offs on my credit history to back that up.

I became concerned when, after the accounts were charged off, I still ended up getting letters from collection agency after collection agency trying to collect against the charged off accounts. I mean, it's charged off, right? Why pay a collection agency to clear a debt that technically no longer exists? And I'm STILL getting collection agencies trying to collect that same charged-off debt - well over the 7 year statute of limitations has expired. To make things worse, these collection accounts are showing up again, NOW, on my credit report once again as unpaid. For a debt that was charged off almost 10 years ago.

How can they do that??? And how many times can the same charged-off account be sold and resold? And how is it that they can put that old debt back on my credit report after the expiration of the statute of limitations??

The fact that your credit card company removed the charge doesn't mean you don't owe the debt. You still have a disputed charge with the original company. You still have the right to dispute the charge with the company and the collection agency using whatever documents you have showing the original charge was invalid. Undisupted collection items can be reported to the three credit reporting agencies.

I have a company with whom a credit card dispute was resolved in my favor and the permanent credit put on my account. The company with whom the charge was disputed is now trying to get the money through a collection agency, can they verify that i owe them money if the credit card company's dispute resolved the matter and reversed the company's charges? What information do they need to report this "debt" to a collection agency, and without my social security number can they actually do anything to my credit?