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According to Georgia Secretary of State's public records, the CEO of Stallings Financial Group, Inc. is:

Janet L. Hopson
186 White Oak Ridge
Ellijay, GA 30540

(a corporate filing lists the email address for Janet Hopson as Janet@stallingsfinancial.com)

And, the CFO of Stallings Financial Group, Inc. is:

Shirley V. Stallings
996 Fairwood Terrace
Acworth, GA 30101

This information comes from records available on GA Secretary of State's website.

I wonder if they know just how annoying the pestering, pointless calls are to people just trying to get by? Who could be a part of such an organization??

Wow - checked the language of the law.

My uneducated instinct that was spewed out above was actually pretty dead on the mark. Honest, no peeking, lol.

Section 806 of the FDCPA (Harassment or Abuse) states:

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:

...

(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.

Ok - clearly Subpart 5 is violated - proof? Their phone records, my phone records, yours - all will show all calls they have made, the duration, etc. I'm going to turn on speakerphone and use another device to video record the next time I get this call so that there's clear evidence that they ring my phone and hang up everyday on me without any indication of who they are, who they are calling, or any info you'd expect from any caller, especially anything financial ... so you could, you know, have the ability to call them back and talk to the person trying to call you each day so you can work out this debt they're so concerned about. If that's not the goal of their call, and how could it be, how could anything other than an intent to annoy, harrass the debtor be at play? To me, the strategy seems to be to ring your phone at busy times of the day so often so as to infuriate someone into wasting precious time to figuring out what the heck is going on.  That is to annoy. No debt has ever been resolved on one of those auto-calls - they're not leaving you a message so you can reach them - just to bug you in to paying attention to some old bill.

But the law provides that bugging/nagging someone, or causing them annoyance them until they pay you (like by using your autodialer machine not to contact but to ring phones), is not a permissible 3rd party debt collection method under the FDCPA, it is prohibited. I have found claims of this practice going back to 2009. This is not accidental. This is a multi-year, company-wide business strategy.

Oh yeah, Subpart 6 - couldn't be clearer - to say there's no "meaningful" disclosure of the caller's identity - there's no disclosure at all. The caller ID is not a meaningful disclosure, it's automatic whereas disclosure means telling something affirmatively as to who you are - caller ID doesn't tell you any names or companies. Plus, if you call the caller ID # they will not tell you who you are calling in any event until you disclose private information to them. So, where is the disclosure? I can show that no disclosure is being made, numerous times, in calls made to my phone.

Wow, there's lots of stuff here.

These people wouldn't even tell me who they were until they found out who they were talking to. I just wen't back to work from the hospital so who do they think I'm gonna pay first them or get my house payment caught up? The bill they say I owe is blown up to almost double, check what the hospital charges you cause they put things on your bill whether you had that done or not.

Portfolio Recovery Services

This company called claiming that I owed them for an emergency room visit in Feb. 2005. I asked for proof of bill, was told that they didn't have proof of bill, I advised that once I received proof of the bill that I would be more than happy to work out payment arrangements. "Representative" and I use that term very loosely, got rude and advised me that I owed the bill and that she would continue to call me until I decided to pay the damn bill. And they called daily upwards of 15 times a day, harrassing us (my husband and I), claiming this was my bill and I had received a notice about the bill all the while me telling them I had received nothing in my name from them.  Thing is, the only time in Feb. 2005 that an emergency room visit was made by anyone in my house hold was for a former foster child, who had medicaid, who was a ward of the State. Hospital was given medical insurance info, refused to file it after they were given information at least 5 different times.  1st collection agency refused to file insurance when the information was given to them.  I did receive a collection notice from Portfolio Recovery in this CHILD's name for the date of service that they were claiming was MY bill.  I decided to play nice. I wrote to the home office of Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, 140 Corporate Blvd., Norfolk, VA 23502 and advised them of a few thing that they OBVIOUSLY were mistaken on. 1.  Bill was for a CHILD. In my State a Child cannot enter into a binding contract of any type, medical or otherwise. 2.  Said CHILD was a ward of the State and therefore the responsible party was the STATE not me as his foster parent.  3.  Bill was aged 7 years, in my State the Statute of Limitations is 6 years for Breach of Written Contract.  4.  Since both the hospital and the original collection agency had failed to file the medicaid insurance on this bill that this bill was no longer due and payable (I even sent copies of the first collection letter and a copy of the medicaid card, why else would I still have the copies of either of those if I hadn't tried everything to get them to bill the insurance).  Sent this nice letter off registered mail, a few days later the phone calls stopped and we got a nice "I'm so sorry to have bothered you with this, this is now closed." letter in the mail.  Oh yeah, did I mention that I also let them know very quickly that due the age of the debt that they could not legally sue for payment NOR put it on the Child's credit record.

This company keeps calling my number and I have no idea why.  They never leave a message so they must not have much to say.  If it is a medical debt collector then they surely don't have any reason to be calling me.  I have health insurance and considering my FICO score is almost 800 it's obvious that I pay my bills.

Please make them stop harassing me with calls every day!!!

I have patiently explained to these debt collectors on five occasions in the last two weeks that the dispute is between the ambulance company and my insurance company, and that I am waiting for resolution before I call the ambulance back with my credit card information.  I'm certainly not giving it to these people.  To their credit, three of the calls were as professional as can be expected during this stressful time - one person had the misfortune of autodialing me twice and remembering me.  The other two people?  One sounded like she had a mouth full of peanut butter and had to yell just to make herself understood to me.  The other person was an obnoxious and aggressive rude jerk.  When I volunteered that I was not even going to make a small partial payment in good faith until this is resolved, he shouted "We don't take partial payments!  You have to pay this in full!"

Enough is enough.  I have been courteous to these individuals, but their refusal to quit calling me until the other two parties work it out is proof that they're unethical scum.  And shame on the ambulance company for contracting with such a bunch of crooks!

Stallings is the lowest of the low... had an bf that used to work w/them yrs ago, horror stories about how they treat employees, and now my luck to owe medical debts and have these people CONSTANTLY calling. Im making payments and I cant send a mo any faster just because you call at 8:01 every morning every day!

I was wondering who keeps calling and leaving no voice mail!  So I guess they want us to Google their telephone number to find out who they are?  Sounds like a shady company, and I'm pretty sure I paid those hospital bills early last year.

Number blocked. Problem solved.

If you can submit a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. This collection company is not listed with them but you can still file a complaint with the BBB and it seems like they have good results in making the harrasment stop.
http://www.bbb.org/atlanta/business-reviews/f ... tta-ga-11000289

I had a water leak in a townhouse I rented. It leaked worst after I moved. Plus They kept my deposit. I do not own the property nor do I owe the water company.

We have tried to resolve this over the phone and have been unable to do so,just keep wasting paper and postage.You won't be able to recover you cost because the information is the same.Submitting a do not call again.Thank you

Called me yesterday very rude waiting for a transplant coordinator to call me and thats the only reason why I picked up and she attacked me saying they sent two bills and called several times, I said no you didn't if you look at my phone it says this is the first time you have ever called me and it was for a dr bill from feb so why didn't they call me and say,  maam you have a bill past due... not throw it to the collection agency I don't even know if I owe that she couldn't tell me the dr or anything she was so rude and said well you could be any body and I have to check into this I can't take your word for it. She said YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT BUT YOU BETTER PAY IT BY SUCH AND SUCH DATE OR ITS GOING ON YOUR CREDIT!  I said whatever and hung up on her.  I am calling the company and filing an a compliant after I find out if I even owe this bill and then the dr office will be blasted.:!

Okay so they call 7-8 times a day starting at830 am!!! Stop calling!!!!

This company all calls under different phone numbers that you can not call back on 678-113-8160, 678-132-1317,678-132-5550
When they call, we answer the phone no one answers, then they call us right back. Still no answers on their side.

I keep getting calls from this number with no message

I don't know who this was that called me from this number...But when I called bk I got one ring and a busy signal

They called me as I forgot I owed a Medical Bill
They are a legitamate Collection Agentcy

They called once and I didn't answer and there was a voicemail but no one said anything and then they called back and no one said anything.