I am not satisfied with Verizon.Verizon is fully aware of what AFNI is doing.AFNI, INC. Bill Scam Warning is true or false i am not fully aware about it. but don't want to continue Verizon land line.
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Verizon is fully aware of what AFNI is doing. Who do you think put them up to it? How do you think Verizon can afford to takeover company after company? Yes, they create these bogus bills and send them to collections. This gives them a tax write off, they then use the saved tax expenditure to buyout their competitors. This is an old scam. AT&T did this for over 100 years, until the goverment broke them up. But you should not be looking at AFNI, this is Verizon's doing. Verizon could be next in line to a government break up of an incresing monopoly in many markets.

i bought a verizon blitz phone and less that 2 weeks that i had it it broke took it to the store and of course they advertise a 100% money back guarantee or phone replacement up the price of the phone. the phone comes on while on the charger but doesn't come on when on the battery. we took it to the store and they opened the back up and they have a piece of paper that indicates if it got wet well we live in an area that has high humidity. she opened the back the little piece of paper was mildly pink just barely and she said your phone isn't on warranty and we can do anything cause it got wet how did it get wet? i only have the thing in my pocket at all times so i told her. she said well that's why we recommend cases cause your not suppose to put it in your pocket. but if you extend your contract we will replace it. see i just signed a 2 year contract to get the phone so i'd be with verizon for 4 years that's too long. so now i'm using a phone sirca 2001 the battery is expanding and that little indicator is completely red. so i'm mad about it. on top of that they don't have covers for this phone. and they wouldn't honor there 100% 30 day money back guarantee

My husband just received a collection from them for supposed charges from 1999 through a phone company that Verizon had purchased some time before 2001. They said he had incurred $1100 in a few months and were settling for around $280. We called them and the very rude man kept insisting they were legit charges even though my husband kept telling him that he had no recollection of the charges. (I wasn't sure if they were real charges since a few years back I had legitimate collections charges that were through AFNI) The man said that the address associated with the bill was listed on his credit report as a former address (funny it hadn't before and why would a 10 year old address show up when there have been around 7 other addresses for him in the last 10 years). I asked the man for a detailed bill showing what had incurred those charges to try to figure out how $1100 could be incurred in a few months. He said he would send it to me that Monday (we called on a Friday). He even more rude after this asking me what "date" I was going to call back. I told him I didn't know, it would depend on when I got the statement. He kept telling me that that was not acceptable. I ended up telling him that he would have to accept it, because I wasn't giving him a date. I still have not received the statement in the mail. I did however check his credit report (I thought it was odd that a collection account would never be on a report) as I have regularly over the past 6 years and this has never showed up before. Thankfully the account was not there, but the address was. Funny, it was never there before. So, I filed a dispute through the credit agency (address was only on Experian) to have it removed that he never lived there. I haven't heard from them, and I am so glad I came across this.

AFNI is trying to collect for a "dis-connected" number..only one problem ..my number is NOT disconnected ..I use my "dis-connected" phone daily which not only is currently paid up to date..but I also recently had a large credit posted to my acct. due to double charges. I just got my return receipt back so I'll just wait to see what AFNI's response is to the debt validation letter that I sent them.

I got a final notice today,a settlement offer for my old Verizon California, INC account.
The problem is that I left California in 2000, and have not been back since. On top of, I know I never had an account with this company, anyways. So I've passed the statute of limitations in both states on a debt I never incurred!
This post was extremely useful to me, not least because it seems to be almost the exact same kettle.
Thanks so much!

IN 2002 I moved from Yucaipa Ca. to Beaumont Ca and had verizon home phone. I had the "moving package deal." These towns are 5 miles apart by the way,Verizon did move the service at no charge and set everything up, I THOUGHT.I was in my new home for a month, and recieved a 246 extra surprise on my bill. They gave me the wrong dial up # for my internet.THey told me "well we need to rain our service people better".After many disputes and calls, I thought It was taken care of, not, 2 yrs. later a letter from a collection agency.After a month of phone calls and letters thought it was taken care of, Not,2 yrs. later another collection agency had bought the old one and now they are started, again calls and letters.Again, thought it was over,nope this week my credit card company lowered my credit avail. and raised my initerest rates why, this thing shows up on my credit again!!! NOw reallize each time a new collection agency gets this, the date changes so this could go on for 50 yrs.!!!
Verizon well, Ihave been on hold now for 55 min. but be assured, I'll get the same bull.

AFNI, INC. Bill Scam Warning .

This is no Joke.

A company called AFNI, Inc. P.O. Box 3472 in Bloomington, Il. 61702 is a third party collections company.

They buy old worthless and often out of statute of limitations debt portfolios.

Recently, ANFI, Inc. sent out a second notice collection bill on an old phone account through Verizon California Inc. they said I owed from 2001. Note I never received a first notice.

They offered to settle for half of what they said I owed.

Dumbfounded I knew I never had any account of any kind with Verizon, so I called Verizon Cal. Inc. and spoke to Eric. He looked in his data base for my name, SS# and the phone number. He said there was nothing about me in any of their files. He also said the phone number wasn't even a Verizon number.

So I did a phone number search at my own expense and found out what I already Knew, it was not mine.

I checked my credit reports and found in violation of the Fair Debt Reporting Act they also placed this bill on my consumer’s credit reports without ever notifying me.

If you receive one of these bills from AFNI, Inc. and you know that you had never had Verizon; or if it is a bill you never heard of before, check your credit reports right away.

I checked other web sites and found out a lot about AFNI, Inc. scamming people, not just a few but hundreds.

I then disputed the bill. Also I filed with my state’s Attorney General and the IL. A.G., the FTC, and the BBB. The BBB says that AFNI, INC. says it is my bill from 2001, but they have not validated it yet. Even if it were mine, it is out of SOL in California. I am not sending them one red cent and will sue them if they continue to report this on my CR or sell this worthless paper to another debt agency.

I have heard to NEVER, NEVER call AFNI, Inc., as they will capture your phone number and start calling and harassing you; AND NEVER give them your Information as they will use anything against you.

For More Information on the AFNI, Inc. scam check BudHibbs.com or simply type in consumer complaints AFNI, Inc. into your search the web box. There are hundreds of complaints against these scam artists.

Only by banding together and filing reports against AFNI, Inc. can consumers shut these guys down.

Best of luck everyone,

Diana

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Our sister organization www.privacyrights.org probably has the most comprehensive information regarding how to deal with Debt Collection issues on the internet. http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
If you just want some Frequently Asked Questions about Debt Collection try. http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27a-debt_collection.htm

Debt Collection Statutes of Limitations: http://www.bcsalliance.com/y_debt_sol.html

Yes -- the collection agency is "AFNI." After reading your posts, and a few other things I picked up through googling them on the web, I believe they are a scam operation. I'm just going to report it to the Attorney General's office in Boston in Monday, and be done with it! I wonder if any class action lawsuits are perhaps already in progress against them. I'll ask the AG's office that, too.

Don't sweat it. They tried the same bogis crap with me. Was the collection agency "AFNI"? They're real bottom feeders. Check the statute of limitations for debt in your state, chances are it's elapsed already, leaving them no legal recourse whatsoever. The statute of limitations for them to damage your credit report is 7 years so just keep an eye on your report. If this surfaces on it, have it removed ASAP and they have to take it off. Don't give them a cent, don't even answer it.