855-520-7028

Got a call from this number and a email from this about a verizon wireless bill. Havnt used verizon in 15 years

Got a fake/scam email from Halstead Financial with this phone number at the top of the email. IT IS NOT THEM. Email was in regards to an account I don't have.

How do you know that the email didn't come from them?

Got an email from synovus bank / Halstead financial services saying I owed money on an account that I don’t have then it lead to a link to pay it off .  SCAM

Have gotten multiple emails with this number attached to it with my sisters name on an account neither one of us have.

Keeps emailing me with another persons name saying they owe over $400 asking for payment. I’ve had my email for 18 years nobody I know has that name nor have I ever received anything regarding this person before.  Keeps asking to call to settle the debt.

Same issue. They claim a Monica King (?) Owes them money for a debt That never existed..using my email. Its definitely a scam. Halsteads legit number is different.

Received multiple emails from Halsted Financial with this number as the number to call regarding a debt that they say I owe to Credit One Bank.  Checked the Halsted  Financial website and that is not the number on the website.  Checked my credit report and I never opened an account with Credit One Bank.

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Checked the Halsted  Financial website and that is not the number on the website.

I get a big kick out of the fact that people think that companies that have a lot of employees only have one singe phone number and it is the one that is published on their website.  I guess it never occurred to you that they might have other phone numbers that they work from?  For instance their BBB page has two different phone numbers on it as well.

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Checked my credit report and I never opened an account with Credit One Bank.

You had to check your credit report to know that you never opened a Credit One account?  Seriously?

You will need to send them a certified, return receipt debt validation (by law they have to go back to the original creditor to prove you owe the debt), cease and desist calling, or "not me" letter (this will be the best money that you have ever invested).  Also send it first class mail in case no one will sign for it.  Make a notation of that fact at the bottom of the letter.  You also need to report them to the proper agencies to which I have provided links to.  Then you need to go out and get a consumer lawyer to sue them on a contingency basis (no money out of your pocket) and let them pay you for the harassment.  If everyone did these three things, these crooks would be bankrupt, and we would all be the richer for it.  Use these web sites to find an attorney in your state that will probably take the case on a contingency basis (no money out of your pocket up front):  http://www.consumeradvocates.org/
http://www.consumeradvocates.org/find-an-atto ... tates_value=All

Everything else you need to know follows including at least two or more federal and state agencies where you should report their criminal activities.

HALSTED FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC.

Web page with contact info:  https://halstedfinancial.com/contact

BBB page with an accredited A- rating with 279 complaints and 40 negative reviews (BBB removed a whopping 160 complaints and 11 negative reviews, probably when they paid money for the accreditation and they also removed the notation that there is a pattern of complaints –surprise! Surprise!) Now the next weird thing is that around the end of 2022 they started racking up glowing 5 star reviews which the also replied to.  Well over 70 of them, no doubt written by company employees for extra money. Updated 2/27/2024: http://www.bbb.org/chicago/business-reviews/c ... kie-il-88375998

From the Illinois Dept. of State:
Entity Name    HALSTED FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC     File Number    02536234
Status    ACTIVE      On    03/03/2015
Entity Type    LLC     Type of LLC    Domestic
File Date    05/30/2008     Jurisdiction    IL
Agent Name    ILLINOIS CORPORATION SERVICE C     Agent Change Date    09/30/2014
Agent Street Address    801 ADLAI STEVENSON DRIVE     Principal Office    8001 N. LINCOLN AVE., SUITE LL
SKOKIE, IL 60077
Agent City    SPRINGFIELD     Management Type    MBR   View

Agent Zip    62703     Duration    PERPETUAL
Annual Report Filing Date    03/03/2015     For Year    2015
Series Name    NOT AUTHORIZED TO ESTABLISH SERIES

It is incumbent upon them under the law to prove that the debt exists and that you owe it, and (this is the important part) that they have the legal right to collect it.  You are not obligated under the law to prove that you don’t owe or that it is paid.  

Federal law (FDCPA) requires them to send you a letter (US MAIL ONLY) postmarked within 5 days of their first contact that contains their name, physical address, the creditor’s name, and the amount of the alleged debt. It also must contains “mini-Miranda” telling you that it is an attempt to collect a debt and that all information will be used for those purposes.  The one other important thing that this letter must also have in it is that you have a right to dispute the debt within 30 days of receipt of the letter and if you do so, all collection activity must be stopped until the debt is verified.  If and when you get that letter you should immediately send that debt validation letter by certified, return receipt mail.

First, you should make a complaint at this Federal Agency, and while there you should also read up on how debt collection is supposed to work as well as what your rights in this matter are: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

Also file a complaint with your State Attorney General's office.
List of State AG’s offices:   https://800notes.com/faq/attorney-general

Also file a report with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation:   http://www.idfpr.com/