Pressler & Pressler, Foster and Garbus, and Cohen & Slamowitz among several New York debt collection firms sued by Attorney General

Hey Folks:

Remember when you would get some sort of notice from a court about an old debt and you had no idea you were being sued in the first place?  Remember how you claimed that you never were served with any court papers?  Well there may be a good shot you were right.  Here is a link to the New York State Attorney General website, listing an investigation into debt collection firms and the process servers they use.  In a nutshell the AG is stating that many of these so called “process servers” werent serving at all, and were instead filing fraudulent papers with the court.  Furthermore, the AG is looking to invalidate many of the judgments entered against creditors, because countless people may have been sued without being given the proper notice required.

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/media_center/2009/july/july23a_09.html

  • Charlene McMullin

    They garnished my wages and served me at an address I have not lived at, I currently have an open case with the attorney ethics of NJ however they went through NY and got the garnishment.

  • maybell

    Have been paying them every month, started over phone calling in the payments to them. Then they got an on line system in may? and all of a sudden in July, I made a payment and it looked as if it went through on my end, got a confirmation number and took a screen shot of the payment.
    A month later I got a notice about non payment. I called them and told them I had a confirmation number and was told that if I am paying my significant other’s bills that I have to fill out an affidavid allowing me to do so. New company policy. I told them, but it was the same debit card that I have used in the past, but was told that new company policy, affidavid must be filled out, so I did and continued payments.
    Yesterday, my significant other’s boss got a subpoena for information to garnish his wages and there was a judgment made in their favor against him that was made in October.
    When I contacted them with regards to this, I was told that because I did not make proper payment to them in July, that we where under breech of contract. I told them we had proof that we did attempt to make the payment and do have confirmation of it, but for some reason, your company did not process it (new company policy) and did fill out the affidavid that was required and was told that we did not show up to the court hearing.
    We where never given any information as to the fact that there was even one! No letters no calls, nothing! I did not even hear from them until yesterday to even know there was a problem! I would go on line and make my payments every month. I have proof of all payments made. I have proof of the affidavid that we signed in August. I have proof of payments coming out of our accounts!
    How can they make a judgment against us when we are paying? How can a court issue them permission to garnish his wages if we have been paying our bill every month?
    They told me that there was nothing they can do, we should have been at the hearing with all this proof but according to their records, payment did not go through in July for company reasons and new regulations and because we where late as a result, it breeched our contract with them. But since we where not there to provide that proof, there is nothing they can do at this time but to follow through with the judgment.

    This seems quite unethical and illegal!

  • OJ

    These creeps call you up and blow loud farts over the phone!

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