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I have read through all these posts and am experiencing simalar treatments from Mann Bracken. I have two accounts (Chase,Citi) both have went to collections. I went through a period of time where my income was cut in half and I wasn't able to make the credit card payments and child support, rent, cars....etc.
I made a decision to stop on the credit cards. We had other accounts too that were delinguent. As time went on I was able to catch up on some and most of my accounts were willing to work with us. We negotiated and come up with repayment plans. They all seemed very willing to help us out. Now Mann Bracket was a different story. They started up almost imediately with actions of arbitration. There was Ms. Jones that made several comments to my wife (who is not even on my account) that we had to send in the full amount, or 20% of it. Both accounts have reached over $17,000 with late fees, interest etc. We can't possibly pay these, they made a one time attempt to say that if we sent them $9,000 for one account they would mark it paid, but we can't do that either. So they had no more options for us, other than they said it was going to arbitration.
In one breath it hadn't and then it had. We have recieved no notification about arbitration other than Ms. Jones on the phone.

I read all the posts here and ended up calling Chris Diwan. He wouldn't take my call at first and then I told the secretary if he wanted to head off a complaint to the bar he needed to talk to me. All of a sudden he was there on the phone!

I told him breifly all the lies that Ms. Jones had told my wife and how they had broken the law when it came to the fair debt collection act. He asked me what I wanted him to do, and I told him I wanted him to take care of it. He was quiet for a second, and then he said done! I said what does that mean? He said it is taken care of. I said so what exactly does that mean to me? He said I put a Cease and Desist on your account.

So I asked what was to come of the amount of the debt? He said he couldnt discuss that with me. I told him I needed to know what they planned on doing, and he said that he couldnt discuss it. He finally did say that if I wanted to make a 3 times payoff for a settlement he could talk about that. but if I wanted longer payments he couldnt do anything. As I began to ask more questions, he cut me off and hung up.

I have an attorney that I have worked with in the past so I called him. He said I probably scared them off and they will send the account back to Chase and Citi. I might hear from Chase and Citi again or another attorney firm. He said more than likely they have an "internal" code that says when someone plays the complaint to the bar card, they wash their hands of it and send it back to the account holder.

I don't know if that is true or not, but I am frightened of what they might do next. They have not sent us anything indicating arbitration in writing. My attorney told me to sit tight.....scares me, but I guess he knows best.,

Jeff

Collection agencies are not suppose to call between the hours of 8pm and 8am.  Mann Brackett is only a collection agency.

Yeah it is Mann Bracken. Looking for someone who used to work here.

The guy who calls is Dale Burns, what an inbred clown he is. All of us in the office make fun of him, telling him to squeal like a pig for us if he wants us to take a message.

He keeps telling us it is important personal business. We give him random phone numbers (sorry random people). And he calls back and says he must of written down the number wrong!

There's a whole web site about them, http://mannbrackenwatch.blogspot.com and some of the stuff on there is pretty funny!

they can't touch your social security

Yes but what do you do when you do call them back settle over the phone, have copies and confirmation that they settled and now I have received papers to go to court for the same matter. How do you handle that?

Mann Bracken contacted me the very first time filing a lawsuit against me saying Capital One is the plaintiff.  I called Mann Bracken the day I was served and try to discuss all matters with them.  They wouldn't tell me anything until I gave them my social, address and employment....I REFUSED AND TOLD THEM THEY SHOULD ALREADY KNOW ALL THAT IF THEY TRULY HAVE ALL THE RECORDS THEY SAY THEY HAVE.  They continuously called me for days, weeks etc...  I did file my response within the 30 day limit.  I received a letter from Mann Bracken a few months later stating they had been awarded the judgement and I needed to pay them.  Of course I didn't respond due to waiting for the courts to send me something. End of June I received a letter stating that I was to be in court on July 24, 2009 for the pre-trail conference.  I called superior court here in Whitfield Georgia and they did state that the judgement was awarded to them but not in full.  I went to the court's got a copy of the judgement and ask why i had to appear in court or pre trail and no one could answer.  Now I have to go to this pre-trial conference tomorrow and don't understand the reason.  But I do have all my doc's plus all the info I have gathered about Mann Bracken being sued by 74 different consumers just this year alone for the same B***S*** they are doing to me.  Help me God!!  Fight these people!!!  Don't give them their way or they will only get stronger!!!

MANN BRACKEN IS CALLING MY FIANCES EX BOYFRIENDS MOM A 60 YEAR OLD LADY HARASSING HER. WE DO NOT KNOW HOW THE GOT THE PHONE NUMBER, WE HAVE UPDATED OUR CREDIT REPORTS WITH THE CORRECT PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS TO REACH US, AND WE SENT THEM A CERTIFIED LETTER FOR A DEBT VALIDATION, BUT STILL NO RESPONSE AND OR PHONE CALLS TO US.  THEY ARE HARASSING SOMEONE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME OR MY FIANCE, AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW THEY GOT THE INFO THEY RECEIVED. MY EX;'S MOTHER IS GOING TO SUE THEM FOR HARASSMENT. THEY HAVE BEEN CALLING HER FOR AT LEAST 3 TO 4 MONTHS AND SHE TOLD THEM NO ONE LIVES THERE BY THAT NAME AND THEY STILL KEEP CALLING LAUGHING IN THE PHONE AND HANGING UP. PLEASE HELP US WITH THESE PIONS?

they (mann bracken) have been calling my house every day for over a year. the first time i talked to them they told me if i didnt pay the full amount immediately they would take me to court and sue and have my wages garnished. the last time i talked to them they said they had already filed suit against me in the county in which i live. i went to the courthouse this morning and asked if there had been any suits filed against me and each time i was told no. i talked to the county clerk, district clerk and justice of the peace.

I ended up paying mann brackin at least 1500. more than we first agreed upon over the phone. Then one day they stopped taking automatic debits from my checking and a year later are back for more with lies and such. I have all the letters they have sent me to prove they are lies. But who has the time to mess with lying lawyers. So to make a long story shortm after paying them off what they said I owed in May 2009. Now just yesterday Sept. 3rd 2009 I got a letter from them saying thank you for your payment on May....... Which I already got one in May or June. Then today Sept. 4th 2009 I get a check for 15.00 saying its for an overpayment. I will not cash it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I want to know what they are up to know. Can anyone figure that one out? P.S. They will repeatedly garnish your checking and charge you for their fees to do so.

How do you know they are in bed with the NAF.  We are in Texas and they already took us through that scam and said we owe the money.  One attorney said that the NAF always comes in favor of the credit card company.  We have offered to pay them in installments but they refuse an want lump sums and get very nasty on the phone.  They seem like crooks.  Do you know if it is alright to ask for discovery even after a person has gone through the NAF?

This is really about my neighbor who doesn't speak a lot of English.

She got a boost phone and Mann Bracken called it so much all of her minutes were gone.

She and her friend got on them about this. They actually went to Rockville and would not leave. The police were called and it got ugly.

She showed them the phone printout.

A Mann Bracken lawyer named Matthew Linkie handed her cash and made her sign something. Apparenly the police told Linkie to clean up his act as so many calls are harassment.

does know of a class action suit against them or how we can start one?

I get regular calls from Mann-Bracken's robo-caller asking for someone who does not and never has lived here.  When I call the number left by the recording and tell the receptionist that I'm calling because I want the calls to stop, she hangs up!  This has happened at least six times.