469-385-5260

This number belongs to drive financial.... it's for people with low credit or bad credit who want to get car financed. My husband and I had to go through them because even though he had good credit, he had too many things on his credit. But as son as your a day or two late, Drive Financial with start calling obsessively until they have their payment. I have informed them I sent my payment in, and yet they still call 5-8 times a day. I would pay over the phone, unfortunately, they charge about $10 just to give them the payment over the phone, and the mail takes forever for them to process, so it leaves you in a bind. this happens about every month to me and I'm getting tired of it. If their calling and you don't have a loan with them, then it's most likely because somebody put you as a reference and failed to inform you.

This number belongs to drive financial.... it's for people with low credit or bad credit who want to get car financed. My husband and I had to go through them because even though he had good credit, he had too many things on his credit. But as son as your a day or two late, Drive Financial with start calling obsessively until they have their payment. I have informed them I sent my payment in, and yet they still call 5-8 times a day. I would pay over the phone, unfortunately, they charge about $10 just to give them the payment over the phone, and the mail takes forever for them to process, so it leaves you in a bind. this happens about every month to me and I'm getting tired of it. If their calling and you don't have a loan with them, then it's most likely because somebody put you as a reference and failed to inform you.

I was apparently a reference for someone they are looking for and have told them repeatedly that I was only her landlord and haven't seen her in over two years and they were supposed to have "noted that in their records" but the calls keep coming. This time a message was left with a number to call. I tried to call the number that he left and got  a "massage/sex" recording after the first three or four words on the recording I hung up He must of gotten his work number mixed up with something else.

This number is certainly Drive Financial.  I bought my house in 2007.  The lady who sold to me, had rented the house to tenants and evicted them about a year before I purchased the house from her.  I've now owned the house for about 1.5 years and the entire time, Drive Financial has been sending me billing statements to the previous renters at my address.  I suppose the previous renters don't know how to manage their bills by updating with their new address!  I politely mark the mail "return to sender, addressee unknown", but Drive Financial never gets the message.

One day I got tired of politely sending the mail back to sender, so I opened the envelope "gasp!" (I know I violated some stupid law somewhere, not common sense law however).  Knowing that Drive would assume I was lying, I masked my CID with *67.  I explained my situation and requested that I never see another piece of mail from Drive.  The representative was actually very helpful and explained that I would not see anything else from Drive Financial.

Then today, I got two calls from Drive Financial at the number I had masked before calling in.  CID masking is obviously worthless if the other end can "unmask" it.  The first call was just silent.  I said "hello" a few times and then hung up with no response.  The second call came right after the first call, and a vaguely familiar voice (I think it was the voice of the rep that I had explained my situation too a few days earlier), said "Is Jeffrey there?".  Knowing that Jeffrey is the name on all the envelopes that I returned, and knowing that my name has always been Brandon, I replied "There is no Jeffrey at this number.", to which the caller abruptly hung up.

Watch out for Drive Financial.  They have terrible debt collection methods when they begin reversing CID masking to see if they can catch their debtor at a phone number that has never previously been in their database.  I'm considering contacting a Texas law enforcement agency if the calls from Drive Financial continue.

Now I have to deal with junk mail and junk calls from Drive Financial.  I should have called from a pay phone.

THESE IDIOTS NEED TO STOP CALLING MY NEW #

This number calls my house and cell constantly!  They never leave a message.  I am getting so tired of the constant calls!
If you are only a couple of days late on your payment the calls start and never stop.  They even call your references like crazy and harrass them.  It pisses me off because I don't want my references knowing any of my financial business.  Just because I used them as a reference doesn't mean that I am ok with them knowing personal stuff about me.

Caller ID says Dallas TX and the number 469-385-5260 I don't answer unknown numbers or no name calls. they got my machine and hung up. I don't own anyone anything - no out standing bills!

BEWARE!!!  Drive Financial has changed their name to Santander.  Even moore mean and nasty to work with.  Wish there was a way to put them out of business.

You know *67 doesn't block your number, it merely requests the phone information of the last caller to your number.  You're thinking of *82.  

Drive called today.  Our payment is two days late and they have called 3 times in the last hour from an 800 number.  The last time was from a Dallas, TX number.  

Take the mail to your local Post office and ask them to refuse the mail for the previos tennants.  I've done this for other mail.  BTW, never admit to opening someone elses mail as it, as lame as it may be, is a FEDERAL CRIME.  That's FEDERAL PRISON TIME AND A FINE!  It would suck to have to pay a fine because some lame company can't get it in their heads that that person is no longer at that address.    The return to sender, addressee unknown doesn't work.  You need to at least write NOT AT THIS ADDRESS across the front of the envelope and draw a single line across the address NOT THROUGH.  The post office has to still be able to see the address.

I received a call on my (new!!) cell number at 8:40pm last night.  She sat on the line for almost a full minute before saying anything, then asked for my husband's ex wife--from whom he's been divorced for almost 4 years!  My husband called them Friday to tell them his payment would be made on the 15th (today, I believe), but I asked her if they hadn't already spoken with him and she said no. I told her he said he would speak with them again during business hours, and hung up. Then the same number called his cell and sat on the line forever before hanging up without saying a word.  I guess she must have read the notes.... So unprofessional!

I am listed as a co-signer for a car financed through these guys.  In 4 years, there was only 1 late payment.  Yet, these guys start calling you on the day payment is due and keep calling excessively and obsessively, including weekends and fairly late nights.

These SOB's do not know the meaning of "this is not their phone number" or "I do not know that person".  I have contacted the TX Atty General's office and file a consumer complaint against them.

After years of paying in advance on my loans and bills and not being late on anything... I am getting calls from these people.

Money is tight in the current economy and apparently Santander USA purchased my loan from my prior lender. My December payment wasn't accounted for and the phone calls started coming from "Sat and Air" which I thought was a solicitor trying to sell me some air conditioning service... I thought who is "Sat and Air" ? Finally I got a statement saying my car loan was late and then I saw that Santander USA had taken over my loan from Road Loans. Now it seems that I am a few weeks behind on each months cycle...late fees....etc.

It's great that our elected officials have spent trillions on bailing out the banks and all the people that helped create this situation...and have done so little to provide actual stimulus to our economy so working class people can find jobs. Well I guess that there are plenty of jobs in collections.

It's Santander.  Some kinda banking company...I just bought a car at CarMax about a month ago and that is the company I got financed through.  They SUCK with custome service... When I finally realized who it was, I finally got someone on the phnoe and could hardly understand a word she said, as she spoke very broken English. In the middle of our conversation, the operator started saying "Hello? Hello???" like she couldn't hear me, all the while I'm sitting there saying "Hello... Hellooooo I'm here" but she eventually just hung up.

My car payment is 1 month late. These guys have called me about 15 times a day from 2 differnt numbers. They even called my place of employment and dicussed my car loan with 2 different co-workers who  have no business talking to them. These people were not references, they are people who work with me. THIS CAN'T BE LEGAL. Bottom line: avoid Drive Financial at all cost. Drive Finacial = loan sharks.

They called three times today and I don't have any accounts with Drive Financial. I googled the phone number to figure out who it is. I couldn't answer because they called me while I was at work and didn't leave a message.

I called the number back. It said that it was something like, "Sontadair." I have no idea who or what that is. The automated system wanted me to give it the year I was born. Then a rep got on the phone and asked who he was speaking with. I said, You called me. He repeated him self and I said, please remove me from your calling list. Thank you. I don't know who these people are but they are not even worth calling back.

This number calls my house every day I have asked them to please stop calling however they cont. to call daily for some one I do not know.

Under the TCPA, a consumer has a right to file a lawsuit and recover $500 for each call that violates the TCPA. The TCPA can also be used in conjunction with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act in some situations.  

Generally, the TCPA does not apply to debt collectors making collection calls to debtors. However, if you are subjected to calls from a debt collector and you are not the debtor, you may file a lawsuit against the debt collector under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the TCPA.

This right was recently recognized by Judge Legrome D. Davis in a case called Watson v. NCO Group, Inc.  NCO Group is a debt collector that uses automated prerecorded collection calls.  In this case, Mr. Watson alleged he was getting hundreds of calls from NCO Group after he got a new phone number. Mr. Watson claimed he owed no debt to NCO Group, Inc.  Mr. Watson filed suit under both the FDCPA and TCPA.

David Israel, defense lawyer for NCO, argued that the TCPA should not apply to debt collectors.  Judge Davis rejected the argument made by David Israel. The judge ruled that Mr. Watson had a right to sue NCO Group Inc under the TCPA for $500 for each call.  Judge Davis wrote;

[The] Court is convinced that a non-debtor's rights are in fact violated when he is subjected to repeated annoying and abusive debt collection calls that he remains powerless to stop.

Judge Davis' ruling was based upon his interpretation that collection calls to non-debtors violate the privacy rights provided by the TCPA.  

So what can you do if you receive "wrong number" calls from debt collectors?

1. Sign up for the Do-Not-Call registry.
2. Save the calls captured by your voice mail or answering machine.
3. Contact a consumer lawyer.

http://consumerlawyer.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/the-do-not-call.html

It is either Drive Financial or Triad Financial, both are now owned by Santander (pronounced San-Tan-Daire).