800-791-3266

Allied interstate Collection Agency

I have received about six calls in two weeks up to now 08-22-07.

They call harassing us at all times for a bill they can't prove that we have ever made.

If you hate the calls there is a simple solution, you first send them a demand letter ( demanding the provide you validation) via certified mail, if they do not respond as required within 30 days they must remove from your credit report, then you again send them a certified letter this time demanding that due to the lack of validation you are demanding that they cease and desist.  This is a double sided deal though, at this point they will probably sell the debt to another company and you start all over again.

Allied Interstate Numbers:

971-228-5618
775-319-1532
775-319-1536
800-791-3266

Cory from Allied Interstate Collection Agency was rude, cursing, harassing, called back 20 times even after told not to call my business.

Denise,

File a complaint against these [***] with the FCC and the FTC. The law is on YOUR side, and NOT theirs:

§ 806.  Harassment or abuse  [15 USC 1692d]

A debt collector may not engage in any conduct the natural consequence of which is to harass, oppress, or abuse any person in connection with the collection of a debt. Without limiting the general application of the foregoing, the following conduct is a violation of this section:

(1) The use or threat of use of violence or other criminal means to harm the physical person, reputation, or property of any person.

(2) The use of obscene or profane language or language the natural consequence of which is to abuse the hearer or reader.

(3) The publication of a list of consumers who allegedly refuse to pay debts, except to a consumer reporting agency or to persons meeting the requirements of section 603(f) or 604(3)1 of this Act.

(4) The advertisement for sale of any debt to coerce payment of the debt.

(5) Causing a telephone to ring or engaging any person in telephone conversation repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass any person at the called number.

(6) Except as provided in section 804, the placement of telephone calls without meaningful disclosure of the caller's identity.

Repeat calls from this number....a mark at extension 3679 leaves several calls a day....doesn't disclose nature of call...but does say LA or Allied Interstate...something like that.

A rep called asking to speak with someone with my same name but with the 3rd. I told her she had the wrong number and requested she remove me from their list because I am on the DO NOT CALL List. She just hung up.

This is Allied Interstate, a subsidiary of IRMC which is a huge collection agency. They are big on collecting student loans altho they collect other debts as well. They just got a big deal with the US Dept of Education to collect on student loans. Their address according to that Dept is:
Allied Interstate, Inc.
P. O. Box 26190
Minneapolis, MN 55426
(800) 715-0395

See the new deal they just got from Edu Dept:
http://www.irmc.com/ushome/aboutus/inthenews/mediaindex.cfm?release=159

The student loan collection business is very competitive and only those who can get results are kept. This competition usually results in the most aggressive collectors winning the contracts such as Allied just did.
Aggressive collectors are most likely to cross the line and violate the law. Send the validation and cease and desist letter to them and keep records of everything they do. Contrary to a prior post you can demand both validation and cease contact in the same letter. Even tho student loans are a govt debt the collection agencies they hire must still follow the law or you can sue. I do not advocate not paying your student loans unless you are in dire straits but if you are you have to fight back.

I was once unfortunate enough to have one of those student loans, and by the time the payments came due on them my husband had walked out on me and our five-year-old son. Following the divorce, I managed to make them on or before the due date...that is, until I ran short of cash one month. The payment was due three days before I was to receive my next child support check. $50.00 was all I had in the bank at the time, which was the same amount of the payment. Unfortunately there was not enough food in the house to feed my son, either and the money had to be used to buy groceries with.
Sure enough, ONE day after the payment was due, I received a rather nasty phone call from a collector. I tried to explain to him that they would get their money as soon as I received my next child support check in three days, but he wouldn't let me talk, and began yelling at me. I lost it at that point and yelled back at him: "Sir, if you THINK this is a contest between my child eating and you getting your money, guess WHO just won!", and I banged the phone down in his ear. I stood there afterwards, shaking and crying, for I was SO mad. This was the first time I had ever had to deal with a debt collector, and the experience shook me to the core. I had barely gotten my emotions under control, when the phone rang again. There was no caller ID back in those days, but I knew it was him calling back. I didn't want to answer it. As I picked up the receiver, I just made up my mind that if this jerk yelled at me again, I'd hang up on him...again. To my amazement, he actually apologized to me. He said that he was "under a lot of pressure" to collect on these student loans, because so many of them were going into default. I was still very angry, and I informed him rather coldly that he was NOT dealing with one of these deadbeats; that he was dealing with a single mother who had a six-year-old child to feed. This time he listened quietly and did not interrupt as I went on: "And that $50.00 is ALL I had to do it with. All I am asking you to do is to wait THREE days until I get my next child support check, because my son can't WAIT that long to eat again". He agreed and said he would note it on my account.

Not only did I KEEP my end of the bargain, but I also got my home refinanced at the earliest oppotunity. And that student loan was the FIRST thing to go!

The moral is: Making a good business decision to work with people and keeping a civil tongue in the process gets results. Yelling, screaming, threatening and intimidating on the part of aggressive collectors gets NOTHING.

Called regarding a personal matter with my daughter. Wouldn't say what it was about. Asked when she would be in. I hung up.

called for lady who used to live here and has been dead 4 years...was working off some script.. in an contrived rehearsed manner ..with no regard for listening politely to anything my dad had to say..

I started getting calls from unknown on my cell phone, I would not answer although they would leave voicemail stating I need to call them back.  One day I am checking my voicemail at work and guess who is there but Allied, now I ask how do they get my work number since I have not been with this company very long, and can they call me at work like this on a company phone?  Isn't there something to protect me from them calling my place of business?  I can ignore the "unknown" calls on my cell phone but when asked to speak to me through my secretary and transferred to my office phone makes me worry as well as not knowing if any personal information is given out accidently by my co-workers.

They have been calling my parents' house for the last week with the message of "This is Allied Interstate. We need you to call us back at blah blah blah." I have just called them back and I have been on hold for 20 minutes waiting for someone to pick up the phone. Think I am going to keep sitting here, waiting to get verbally abused.... WRONG! I just want to know what money I supposidly owe and I have to wait on the phone to the point that my ear is sweating. They will call you several times per day, leaving the same message. You try to call back and you have to sit on hold for FOREVER!

Costant calls on my business phone while I am working.  I have told them many timmes not to call my business phone and yet they do and are harassing me. I am a realtor and can not talk with clients in the car.

This person has been calling me and even leaving messages to my landlady!  This is definitely unacceptable.  It is coercion and a form of harrassment.

Called my house for the 15 th - 20 th time looking for my deadbeat brother whom I do not talk to. I am now suing them for this harassment. I hope to turn this into a class action lawsuit!!! Screw these [***]!!!!

I work in the HR dept. at my work and I received a call from these people. They were saying they wanted to verify employment for someone. I get these kinds of calls all the time. When ever one of my employees buys a car or takes out a loan, the loan company always calls me to make sure they have a job. When I asked for the employees name they said My name. I thought that was weird because I have not taken out any loans or have any debt, so there should be no reason why someone would want to verify employment on me. They then asked to verify my birth date and S.S number. They gave me a year and asked if I was born that year. I was not so I told them no that is not me. They then gave me 4 digits and asked if that was the last 4 digits of my S.S number. It was not and again I told them you have the wrong person. There must be someone else with my same name.
They said sorry for wasting my time and hung up. I thought I was done with them.
Now they call me every day at work and ask for me. I keep telling them they have the wrong person. I have asked them what this is about and they say they can not tell me anything because they admit they have the wrong person. But they keep calling me. If I was at home I would just look at the caller ID and not answer the phone but I am at work and I don't have caller ID so they keep calling.

I spoke to them Saturday.  They were looking for my mom, who doesnt live in our house.  Then said it was a college bill for me.  I said I graduated almost 15 years ago and all bills were paid about a decade ago.  However, if there was a mistake, send me info and we would review.  Instead of sending me documents, now they call everyday in a rude manner.