800-513-2346

1 call and no message from this number.

Wednesday November 21st received a call at 5:30PM.  The recording said to call a different number 800-513-2346.  Looking up that number, it looks like more of the same hang up calls here.

Thursday - THANKSGIVING - 5:37PM they call again with a recording to call that same number 800-513-2346.  

Based upon the info here, this is the latest in a stream on illegal efforts by Weltman Weinberg and Reis.  I beleive they have been sued in just about every state in the US for illegal practices.  

They have been caught illegally phishing for personal information.  Illegally using downloaded forms for filing claims and obtaining information through the courts and fruadulently using them.  

They have been after me since 1999 originally looking for "Jane Doe".  Then they were looking for a former roommate.  Then finally, they were looking for my former roomates sister in law.  Finally they took that same bill and claim it is mine.

From my extensive research, these folks at WWR are junk debt buyers. They buy bad, written off debt from credit card companies and do anything possible to aggressively extort anything they can.  

Oh yeah, and I have a letter from the originating creditor confirming I never had an account with them.  That being said, the cowards look for personal information and have even sent people "in person" to threaten me to get bank info and try to establish wage garnishments.  

If someone shows up in person, give them nothing and call the police.  Yes, I even had one pull a gun on me to scare me.  Your average citizen without knowledge would buckle with their terroristic threats.

Go back to the originating creditor to determine if the debt really belongs to you.  These folks, as much as they would like you to beleive it, are not expempt from FDCPA and FCRA laws.  Check your credit reports, because they have consistently filed as the originating creditor derogatory trade line listings and they update the record monthly so it looks current.  

Unfortunatelty, you dispute it with the CRA - they remove it, and the beginning of the next "cycle" it's reported again as a fresh account.  In my case they have been harassing me for about 9 years now on a bill that doesn't even belong to me.

So keep a log of all calls, hang up and otherwise.  

I report them to the FTC and Do-not-call violations every time they initiate contact.  I also initiate complaints against the CRA's for allowing them to fraudulently report information that the originating creditor stated in writing they are not reporting.

Any physical contact/personal visits - call the police.

Any alleged court documents should be reviewed by a legal professional or a county court clerk to validate authenticity.  The documents they send me are phishing for personal information such as social security numbers, bank accounts, employer information, real estate investments, mutual funds, 401K information.  It's very detailed and it appears valis except for the fact it is signed by their firm - not a judge and there is no court seal sanctioning the inquiry.  Keep these documents as proof of fraud.

Give them no information and my suggestion is to save your money to get a lawyer.  To start a case against them will cost me $5,000 up front.  I'm about 1/2 way there.

Another call from 800-837-6008 telling me to call this number.  Even though I knew from experience the 6008# was from those damned crooks  Weltman Weinberg and Reis, I ran an experiment.  

I established a temporary VOIP number with a Hawaii area code and set it up as a business phone.

Called this WWR number and didn't say anything (the mic wasn't set up on the Pc anyway).  Sure enough, even though they have a rong number clearly identifying that it is the wrong person, that number is getting the harassing calls.  Unfortunately, it just gives me a phone record of harassment and that stupid voice recording to instruct me to call this number.

Hopefully, this would be considered as "evidence" of illegal phishing and capturing of information.

Yet another call from this number - after they already called 10 minutes prior on the other #800-837-6008.

I will second Jennifer's comments re Weltman, Weinberg & Reis. This firm is grossly unprofessional at best, and is engaged in downright illegal activities at worst. Earlier this week, they actually sent me counterfeit court documents and attempted to impersonate our local Superior Court Judge in order to coerce payments out of me on a rather large amount of money. Two other salient points about this alleged debt: (1) it has been paid down by me on a regular basis for at least the past year and a half through my agreement with a credit counseling organization; and (2) the debt has never been properly validated by WWR, as required by law. Their tactics are lame and laughable to anyone who has any familiarity with due process and lawful actions. Most people do not, and WWR are predators taking advantage of these people through fraud and deceit.

Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP
702 King Farm Blvd. Ste 500
Rockville, MD 20850-5775
Phone: (240) 386-3000  800-850-0948   800-303-0930
800-678-7720 - 800-365-6584    888-200-4417
800-302-7933
Fax: (240) 386-3822 & 240-386-3823

Head Debt Collectors:
Stuart J. Wolpoff, President
Harry K. Wolpoff, CCCE, Partner
Laurence C. Abramson, Partner
Ronald Marc Abramson, Partner

Bud Says...
ONE OF AMERICA'S WORST COLLECTION AGENCYS!



Can you say BILLIONAIRES?? Yes, Wolpoff & Abramson are on target o become the first BILLIONAIRES of the collection industry.

They have an incredible network of law firms across the country who sue on debt that were purchased for pennies, then many have arbitration claims files and/or sue upon. They buy themselves whatever they want and sometime, whomever they want to achieve their goals. To put this empire of scam in perspective here are some of the players:

First, one false rumor is that Wolpoff & Abramson (W&A) own the National Arbitration Forum (NAF); that is FALSE! They are the single largest supplier of claims to the NAF and at $ 250.00/per claim, it’s easy to see why they win approximately 95-98% of all claims filed. This is further bolstered by the fact that NAF pays their arbitrators (attorneys, retired judges) a fee of $250/hour to handle claims. The rules state they must handle six claims per hour for this $250, so you can understand that any claimant would be lucky for even a cursory review of documents.  

Buying bad debts for 2-3¢on the dollar (many for a lot less), paying the NAF $250 with an almost guaranteed award in your favor and a network of lawyers filing suits spells money on the level of a South American drug cartel to Wolpoff & Abramson.

W&A pulls the strings for NCAN; the National Collection Attorney Network which is comprised of over 100 law offices across the U.S. of attorneys who sue on debts. A few of these attorneys are good, honest, hard working, many more are inept, have very little understanding of the FDCPA, have no knowledge of any material facts other than what they are told to say and do. They get paid a contingency fee to show up in court, many never do, hoping to take default judgments.  

Thank goodness for NACA attorneys who have the skills and experience to litigate against them, I recommend you always contact one at:  www.naca.net

Think your going to beat an arbitration claim? Not when the arbitrator is being paid $250/hour and can be fed claims all day long. Think your rights under the law mean anything? Think again! I have been contacted on hundreds, perhaps thousands of arbitration claims and only one attorney from Texas had the guts to stand up and say…”Hey! This is wrong!” The good news is he took his job seriously; the bad news is he is no longer an arbitrator for the NAF. Many of these arbitrators would feel very comfortable performing their jobs in a Nevada brothel as the two jobs perform similar services.

Think your going to get satisfaction from the Montgomery County, MD or Maryland State Bar for ethics complaints against W&A?  NOPE! Seems Daddy sits on both boards and not many complaints ever go very far. Here is a partial list of collectors owned/used by W&A:

Alegis Group, Sherman Acquisitions, LVNV Funding, LLC

Arrow Financial Services

Asta Funding

Colonial Credit Corporation

Palisades Collections, LLC

Preferred Platinum Plan aka The Porn Collectors

Great Seneca Financial

Centurion Capital

Sage Financial

Monarch Financial

Hawker Financial

W&A cannot purchase debts as a law firm, so they apparently use these shell organizations to accomplish that goal.

Some of their largest NCAN Attorneys include:

Cohen & Slamowitz, LLP

Hosto & Buchan

Javitz, Block, & Rathbone, LLP

Mitchell N. Kay, P.C.

Love, Beal & Nixon, P.C.

Mel S. Harris & Associates

Messerli & Kramer

Johnson, Riddle & Mark  fka/Riddle & Associates

Trauner, Cohen & Thomas

WELTMAN, WEINBERG & REIS

W&A also has offices in many cities where the phones and faxes all ring in at Rockville, MD. They use an auto dialer that calls some consumers as many as 20 times daily (according to complaints I received) and make it near impossible to get wrong persons removed.

They file cases by the hundreds every day and reportedly even supply court clerks to work side by side with real court clerks to get the filings done.

Want to validate a debt? Fuggettaboutit! …Won’t happen! Slows them down, who gives a damn about the law and consumer rights? They have daily, weekly, monthly goals to hit. Besides, they will manufacture most documents in-house for court filings; even notarize them by employees attesting to hearsay facts that are not admissible in most courts.

Some smart consumer attorney may one day put W&A employees under oath and learn that Affidavits that are legally supposed to be signed in the presence of the person attesting to the truthfulness (?) of the documents, have instead taken them home to be stamped and signed because of the work load. Again, the law and consumer rights are not the issue at W&A, profits are!

NOTE TO EMPLOYEES AT W&A:

THINK YOU HAVE PRIVACY WORKING THERE? THE NEW SECURITY PEOPLE (former CIA?) HAVE CAMERAS EVERYWHERE INCLUDING SEVERAL IN AREAS YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT. THINK YOUR COMPUTER ISN’T BEING MONITORED? THINK AGAIN! THERE ARE EYES EVERYWHERE, WATCHING YOU, CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY, THIS IS SECURITY ‘CIA STYLE’… NOTHING IS SECRET AT WORK!

W&A will go to no end to protect their Niagara Falls of cash flowing into their coffers. Nobody is protected, nothing is sacred, whatever it takes. Money rules this organization, EVERYTHING else is secondary. They don’t own the NAF but they damn sure control them. My advice is to make them spend as much money as possible on each and every account they collect. Send them validation notices and tie up their collectors for as long as possible.  NEVER fail to show up in court-- they miss a lot more court dates than they keep. Make the NAF work, send them validation notices, and force them to prove you are party to any arbitration agreement. Many, many courts are moving closer to consumers, and attitudes are changing, W&A has lost several BIG court decisions; keep as much pressure on them as you can. Each and every consumer fighting at the grass roots level will help, as well as making their illegal deeds known to your Congressman, Senators, and Judges.  Use the experts at NACA  www.naca.net

This is a struggle Americans can win, one account, one consumer at a time.

After you get over getting mad, GET EVEN! Make it costly to come after every account, it adds up quickly, a phone call, a stamp, a collector who can’t collect; dispute, validate, make them pay with time and money at EVERY step.

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I got a new cell phone in 9/29/08. On 10/01/08, I received a phone call from 1-800-837-6008. The automated message asked me to call the Law Firm of Weltman Weinberg and Reis at 1-800-513-2346. I called and there wasn't a single sound after dialing the number. Not even a ringing to let me know the number was going through.

Today, 10/02/08, I got another call from the same number asking me the same thing. Another call to this number thinking it has something to do with the ID theft I just got settled with the credit agencies. Not a single sound after dialing the number.

This is when I turn to the handy dandy Google. This is insane! I'm so sick of this. I finally get one problem settled (ID Theft) and now I've got some people phishing for my info and making me think they're going to have some kind of legal papers saying I have to pay them money I don't have and don't legally owe them, or anyone. What scares me the most is a post I saw saying that someone was physically visited and threatened with a gun. What is this world becoming?

I keep getting calls from this number and I do not want to receive them anymore. I will not give out personal information to these unknowns!

Left message on important sensitive information gave number to call back

Keep getting calls from a Towanda wanting permission to contact people for debits that are already been paid. Original debt was settled in 2008 and now they are trying to collect on the same debt in 2016. I still have the original credit card itself from 2004. But they don.t have any of the paperwork that i do and said the case is too far back to have the information i have asked for.  James T Hart is the attorney but we have left multiple messages for him for the last month and can not get a call back from him. Towanda calls back from the 1 800 513 2346.

Call from Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA.  Call was in relation to a debt, for which they had sent paperwork for in advance... so in my case it was a legitimate debt.