323-372-6323

Calls my house and says "Please hold for an important message"?! How are these people? I am on the national do not call registry. I stopped answering but they would not leave a message.

they keep callin and i want them to stop . . .

For the past few weeks I've been receiving calls from the 323-372-6323 number as well as a 213-232-2316, both of which I googled and both are associated with Allied Interstate.  There are several forums about this shady company and there was even a lawsuit brought against them in 2002.  Sometimes they buy up old debt that's been charged off and is past the Statute of Limitations, but other times they just call to see what kind of money they can get out of people by harassing them with numerous phone calls and being rude and infuriating if someone does pick up.

They won't give you a copy of whatever statement they claim you owe money on, because they don't have proof. Whatever you do, don't promise to pay.  As Suze Orman says if you even say, "I'll send you something,"  The statute of limitations starts all over again.  So I suggest not to pick up the phone if you see it come from one of their posted numbers.  They can't bully you into paying anything if they can't get you on the phone.

If you think you might legitimately owe something, check your credit report at www.annualcreditreport.com.  This is the congress-mandated website that legally provides you free of charge your credit report every year from the three major credit bureaus.  They won't trick you into paying for a credit monitoring service or anything.  By going over your credit report, you can see if something you owe is legitimately in collections or delinquent or if someone has stolen your identity.  Otherwise, avoid dealing with these scumbags if you can help it.  

Hope that helps.

I have been receiving calls from Allied Interstate both on my cell phone (which I don't answer) and home phone. They are looking for someone called Cornelius White. I called back three times and stopped the calls from the 1st 800 number. Now, within 2-3 weeks, they call back using another 800 number. Apparently, although headquartered in New york, the calls are coming from India. They try and hurray you off of the phone when you call the 800 numbers back. It is costing them money, so call call call! this seems to discourage them a little and gives you a break. However, does anyone know of how to report harassment of calls?

This company has been calling and hanging up on our answering machine several times a week for months.  When we finally got fed up and tracked it down we were told that it is their right to hang up on our machine as many times as they like and they do not consider it to be rude.  We informed them that we are on the no call list and they ignored use completely and had the nerver to tell my husband that he was being unprofessional.  He stated that he does not have to be professional when they are calling us at home when we are asleep and we have no professional relationship with them.  Then the manager proceeded to hang up on my husband twice.

Harrassing  asking for person I do not know. calls late at night

calls keep coming in on answering machine no message.

This is a computer generated junk mail.

I've been getting calls from this number Mon-Fri for the last month. They are "dead calls" and do not say anything when I answer, nor do they leave messages.

I get calls several times a day.  I usually do not answer, but when I do try to answer, they just hang up.  They sometimes will leave a recorded message for someone I've never heard of.  This is very annoying!

This is a debt collection company that will call and harrass you into setting up a payment plan for past due and charged off credit card debts(they purchase these debts for pennies on the dollar from the major credit card companies and anything they collect is theirs) Even if the statute of limitations to collect the debts are already up-they will still call you. Do not talk to these people unless you want to be harrassed-if you talk to them they can report your debt as current on your credit report and the statue of limitations will start over again.

They keep calling and are very abusive and threating. When we ask what it is he yells and states he is talking and dont interupt and says we have to pay on a account that is not there and will not provide any info on their so call account in collections.  He has said he is Tom Hansen but no one in the company and verify that. We have reported them to us attorney general, Ohio attorney general, and to the phone list.

Each day I wish I didn't have a recycled phone number that belonged to a deadbeat woman named Shirley who apparently owes lots of people money.

That said, this is a collection agency that won't stop calling you no matter what you do.  They just don't care.  They get paid a percentage of what they recover so they will keep trying even if the information they have is wrong.  All you can do is not answer.