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I am getting calls from this number daily and numerous calls, annoying!! I do not pick up unidentified numbers, they do not leave voicemails, and I would like to know how to get it stopped. (ASAP)

This number called my cell phone during Sunday School.  They don't leave a message or say who they are.  They tried to call again during a congregational meeting after church.  I put my phone on vibrate during these times thank goodness.  How rude to call on a Sunday morning during worship time.  They don't have any scruples since they don't have the common courtesy to leave a message if it is so important to try and disrupt Sunday School classes!

My auto loan with United Auto Credit Corporation was bought out by Santander in 2010 and ever since, i have received one call after another, at all hours of the day and night. I did answer the first time that they called and tried to explain to the very rude and very belligerent person on the other end, that i had lost my job and that i would make the payment when my unemployment benefits began, but, after being called a very ugly name, i hung up and have not answered their calls since. I have scrolled through the pages here and read the comments, and it amazes me that some of these date back to 2007 and Santander is still being allowed to harass and annoy. I guess that the company must pride itself on being rude and assanine to it's customers. These people that make these phone calls must be paid based on how much money they collect. Thankfully my vehicle will be paid for in December of this year. Hopefully, for Santander, these calls will then stop.

i would like join the suit. everything i have read has happened to me as well.

thats the number they use to harass me

Yes that is exactly right.  If you are 1 day late they will aggravate the heck out of you.  The freakin lady just called me on my cell and I didn't answer and then the witch called my job.  What the hell.  I immediately told her that i had already sent the payment in.  These people need to understand that there are time when I have to wait until i get the money to send it in.  CREEPS!!! and it pisses me off the this is a debt collection company collecting my car note money.  I started of with HSBC.

I get calls from this number at least twice a day every day. I don't owe anyone any money. I have never financed a car. I have no accounts and they keep calling. I answer and no one says anything, It's very annoying.

I get the same herassing phone calles. 5 times a day. i made a payment then they call 3 days later and demand more money. this is bull sh_t. i am in on any legal procedings.

Tell them they cannot call your work - if they want you to keep your job so can actually pay them.

They are driving me insane. They have a few numbers they call from. Were 5 days past due. I've tried to make a payment several times via internet, western union and phone. They will not accept my payment. Tried to talk to customer service and the automated system keeps hanging up on me. How am I suppose to pay when they won't accept it?

It is Santander.  Santander and Drive Financial bought out a few companies.  They change thier numbers to try and trick you .  I have about 10 numbers thay call from.  I have them set to go to voicemail.

No they will not make a note. I've sent them 3 emails and talked to 4 different people and gave them the date it would be paid. They still call at least 7 or mor times a day, both home and cell. If some of them spoke English it would help!

This Santader Consumer AKA Drive Financial, they like 20 different numbers, and some of them in the caller id shows the name of another company Design by Workss or something like that.

They are also listed under Santander, an auto finance company.

I want inon this lawsuit....they call me all the the day before the payment is due, and the day after it was due. I western union my payments on the day they are due, so I have confirmation that it was sent. But these people (santander) still call and harrass me all the time. My payment is not late or past due...get a life..gees.

I'm in the same boat... today they called 9 times between 8am and now (3:00) and I consider this a mild day for them.

According to the Fair Debt Collection Act, it's against the law for any company to call more than 2 times in a call cycle (8am-9pm).  I have contacted a local attorney to see what I can do to teach them a lesson!

I've got roughly 18 mo's left on on a 55 mo note.  An injury left me permanently disabled so medical bills destroyed my credit forcing me to go thru Drive (now Santandar). Before my credit got destroyed, I had really good credit.  We always paid our car payment on time or within the grace period.  The economy has put a major strain on us and we've fallen a bit behind but we always call and make arrangements and have never had to break any of the arrangements.  You'd think that the first 3+ years of an excellent payment history with an understanding of what we're going thru and so little time left on the note, that they'd back off a bit?

The attorney I've spoken to says that I can get upwards of $5000 out of Santandar for their bad business practices.  We have laws for a reason and if consumers don't utilize these laws, these companies that willfullly ignore or break them will never learn!  If enough of us do this, they'll stop these bad habits.

I've done some research and currently there's a class ction in TX against them and over 5000 complainst between 2 seperate cconsumer complaint websites.  Not only are they in trouble for phone call abuses but they've also been up to some other shadey stuff.  Like not acknowledging pay offs from traded vehicles, causing many people headaches and court visits.  Playing with how they apply the P&I to notes, especially from the notes they aquired from Drive clients.  I've been requesting my paymnt history and copy of my contract for over a year now with little success.  I first had some alarm bells go off after I was curious to see what my payoff is commpared to how many months I have left and it just doesn't add up.  There's about a $2000 difference between what they say my payoff is, what my contract says I will pay by the end of the note and what I've paid so far.  I have a simple interest loan, this should not be the case!  So now I'm handing the whole thing over to the lawyer and let him sort it out.

I suggest that some of you that are going thru this or similar to this, open your yellow pages in your phone book and find a lawyer that specializes in consumer affairs and give them a call.  Keep logs of all the time s they call, save voicemails and request your payment history.  This is a shadey company and seeing as ALL they care about is money, the only way to get through these people is money!  Maybe if they didn't charge peopl between 25-29% interest, they would better tolerated?  Maybe if they had better customer service reps, who didn't act as if you've somehow personally wronged them becase you've hit a "rough" patch in your life and are doing the best you can to honor your obligations?  According to the math, I've paid for my $14,000 car twice over and by the time I'm done paying this off, I will have paid it once more and some!  They can afford to give me some common courtesy and lay off the harassment!

And to all of you that keep getting calls but have no direct business with them, do they same thing, keep logs, get employee names, times, keep voicemails!

This is a spanish company that came here, bought a bunch of second chace loan companies, they also bought HSBC and a few others.  They think because of our economy, they can profit and treat us badly while they do it!  We're Americans with some weak consumer laws but we have them nonetheless!  If we just shrug them off and deal with their nuisance, they'll just keep doing it and get bolder with time.  I don't know about the rest of you but $5000 will go a long way towards getting caught up with some bills and get them off my back!  The height of irony as well, lol!

YES!  They are not allowed to call prior to 8am and depending on your state laws, no calls on Sundays or holidays.  See my response above.  I am currently working to sue them as so many others are!

According to the law, once you tell a debt collctor they don't have permission to call you at work, the calls must cease and desist immediately!

You also have the right to not deal with them over the phone at all if you don't want to.  Send them a written request that you only wish to do business with them via mail, they must honor that as well.  You can call them but they can't call you... lol!

Any infractions of these requests, calling prior to 8am, after 9pm, holidays, Sundays (depending on your state), trying to charge fees the state laws don't permit, these are all violations of American law!  The ONLY way they'll learn is by hitting THEM in their bank accts!  They're a foreign company that has come to this one thinking they can make a profit off of our current economic woes.  Don't know about the rest of you but I am more than sick and tired of all these multinationals that helped to destroy our economy and now want to kick us while we're down?  They need to be taught a lesson!  They think because they operate out of TX, which has relaxed consumer laws (you can thank Bush and Perry for that) that they can do us all the same across the country!

I'm mad as hell and I'm not dot dot dot... lol

Get a lawyer!  The BBB can't do anything anymore.  Congress tore out all its teeth.  The BBB has become no better than a complaint site.  And we're talking about a debt collector.  They don't do car laons, you can't apply for a new laon with them.  The only thing the BBB is good for is to give consumers advice on choosing to do business with a new company.  None of us CHOSE to do business with Santander.

EXACTLY!

Don't just wait to payoff... call an attorney!  I'm finding out that even at the end of a note, they'll cheat you!  Its bad enough I'm paying 24% intrest?  They want to cheat me as well?  Also, my state doesn't allow for fees due to the high interest.  They can have one or the other but not both!  That doesn't seeem to phase them!  They think that seeing as I'm so close to paying off the loan they can threaten me withy repos.  My credits already destroyed... watch me go file for BK as they're my only remaining debt.  We paid off all our credit cards and now, if we can't save up for it, we do without.  No more credit!  The banks want to be greedy, they don't get my money :-)

If I file for BK, seeing as I'm past the 60% paid mark and they've already collected on the value of my vehicle, twice over, i'd walk away with my car and they wouldn't be able to get another penny out of me!  I'm not trying to cheat anyone but OMG I'm tempted, just to teach them a lesson.  Seeing as I don't intend to purchase anything with credit any time soon, it won't harm me in any way.

But first I'm going to try the lawyers and leave BK as last resort.

Folks need to know the law and use it to protect themselves.