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a mrs williams called me saturday august 8th 2009, saying she was with the attorney generals office for bank of america. i needed to give her my bank information and she would call me monday august 10th to verify i was going to pay 5, 515.00 and t stop another company i had been dealing with cause they were a fraud. i have contacted my attorney. i dont know who is a fraud now, so i am letting my attorney handle it. if you have any information on this please help me. i also will be contacting the better business bureau on both companies.

This man called my department at work and harrassed my co-workers to release information about me.  Then demanded that he speaks to my boss.  I don't know who this is but need this stopped at my place of work.

Does anyone know the fax number to the firm or the address to send a cease communication?

Yah we got some call from some silly-ass lady who can't speak very clearly - said they're Frederick Hannah Law Firm - whatever. So any freaking lawyer can try to collect a debt so they're automatically classified as Debt Collectors - you think just coz they're lawyers - o I'm supposed to get real scared and pay up immediately.
See your silly ass in court - whatever. I'll tell the judge the same thing I've been telling these MORONS all along - we want to pay but coz of massive medical expenses have stripped our budget, so we have worked out a repayment/settlement plan - NONE of our creditors will accept it.
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I'm in Canada on all the do not call lists, have impeccable credit and pay my damned bills..... Yet i still get calls for people i don't even know, nor have i ever heard of, for damned overdue payments.

These people are harrassing people are rude and threatening and the laws for telemarketing and bill collection need to be simplified and severe for these people in both our countries (US & Canada). I have called my phone company to deal with them, and they have tried. Also called the police.......

This is just F'N ridiculous and need to be dealt with pronto!  Don't be so arrogant JBill!

rec. 2 calls from Ms. Green 866-375-4235 ext. 4089 claiming to be from law offices of jay hanna and assoc.  I've read they collect for "BOA".  I've never banked with BOA and never will!!!!!!!!!! What a bad rep. they are giving them.

The self-proclaimed SUPERMAN of debt collection Fred Hanna, of Frederick J. Hanna & Associates

I wanted to alert you to some rather shocking information, which you may find intriguing, that I have learned about one of the nation's most prolific and very aggressive debt collection law firms, Frederick J. Hanna & Associates of Georgia. The Hanna firm targeted me with its illegal debt collection efforts and I am now a plaintiff in one of over a dozen lawsuits currently pending in Minnesota Federal Court against the Hanna firm, the National Arbitration Forum, another debt collection firm named Mann Bracken, and several of the major credit-card issuing banks.

Some of the Hanna firm's employees found out about my litigation and came forward of their own accord and began to provide me with documents, e-mails, and other information which paint a frightening picture of this nationwide firm's illegal debt collection practices and other illegal business operations.

On a side background note -- you may have heard of Mann Bracken; they were once the largest nationwide debt collection law firm in the United States until the Minnesota Attorney General discovered last summer that they shared joint ownership with the National Arbitration Forum ("NAF"), to whom Mann Bracken had channeled hundreds of thousands of its debt collection cases, and that the two companies actively conspired to conceal their affiliation.

The Minnesota AG sued the NAF in July 2009, and the NAF agreed within days to cease all credit card arbitration (tens of thousands of pending cases). This had the ancillary effect of putting Mann Bracken out of business. Mann Bracken admitted its debt collection business model was illegal. Some 60,000 of Mann Bracken's debt accounts were subsequently transferred to the Hanna firm early this year, where, not coincidentally, a number of Mann Bracken's attorneys found jobs after their former employer went kaput.

It has become readily apparent from the information provided to me by the Hanna firm's employees that many of Mann Bracken's shocking, abusive debt collection practices continue with unabated gusto at the Hanna Firm.

According to what I have been provided by its employees, the Hanna firm regularly produces fraudulent affidavits to facilitate its debt collection proceedings, including in arbitration; the Hanna firm regularly and knowingly files other false and fraudulent documents in civil litigation and arbitration proceedings; and ignores state and federal debt collection statutes that it finds inconvenient or otherwise would cut into profits.

These are not isolated incidents, nor are they small in number. The Hanna firm files nearly 12,000 lawsuits as well as an equal number of garnishments a month all across the country, doing so without even having basic evidence on file to prove the debtors owe the money, and no attorneys even review these files before the lawsuits are commenced against these hapless consumers.

In addition, none of the eight attorney’s at a firm employing hundreds do not make the decision to sue, that decision is made by an “Account Manager” within the firm with no legal training.

Indeed, the non-lawyers are provided answers in advance of taking the annual compliance exams of the FDCPA/GLB/FCRA and etc. Hanna firm requires all of it’s non attorney staff to obtain an error free score of 100%. If that employee fails to score 100% even with the answers in hand, they are allowed to take it again, and again, conferring with co-workers, allowed to search the Internet, meet with supervisors to insure they achieve the demanded 100% scores.

Hanna attorney's signatures are regularly affixed to legal documents that the attorney has never even seen or signed. These documents are routinely notarized and signed at the same time by the same non-lawyer.

Talk about automated debt collection lawsuits clogging the courts! One single attorney (of only the eight employed at the firm) signature allegedly appears to sign on more than 5000 of the referenced legal documents in a single week! He also attends trials and hearings, has meetings with Fred Hanna, et al.

Not incidentally, many of these same employees have also informed me that the work environment at the Hanna firm is toxic and that female employees are routinely subjected to sexual harassment, including unwanted sexual advances from the lawyers and debt collectors employed by the Hanna firm. The employee’s production is tightly monitored by CVC camera’s, stroke count keyboard software as well other systems designed to make sure the employees meet their “numbers” or they are terminated as well.

The abuse extends to employee production records that are manipulated by the office manager to show a lack of production to justify refusal of paid time off and other benefits or to apply discipline for those not in her favor, but such tactics are never employed against any of her family members working at the same firm. Nepotism is rampant. In short Fred Hanna seems to have created the modern day equivalent of debt collection sweatshop.

Fred Hanna is the self-styled, self-proclaimed SUPERMAN of debt collection. So focused on cultivating that image his personal office is decorated in the comic book hero colors of Gold, Purple, and Red. SUPERMAN figurines and paraphernalia abound within the enter confines of his office which is quite intimidating to people who work for him according to his employees.
According to his employees, each year on Halloween at the office party, he appears in a very tight fitting SUPERMAN costume, which according to women in his office nothing short of a display of his "manliness" leaving nothing to the imagination. According to his employees, there are innumerable photos taken during this annual event, with the young woman of Fred Hanna’s favor at that moment (over the years there have been several according to in office gossip,) using his clothing and id tags, "strategically placed as her revealing costume that evening, creating an image of discrimination, favoritism and sexism.
They also have informed me that Mr. Hanna sends out e-mails to his employees instructing them whom to vote for in elections in the State of Georgia, where the Hanna firm is domiciled, in order to drum up support for candidates whom Mr. Hanna believes are sympathetic to his debt collection business, a practice that is prohibited in the employees handbook, (the cover of which has an image that can only be of Holy Bible) a violator subject to summary termination.

Mr. Hanna is also apparently prone to violent tirades directed at employees who question his judgment or business practices, and has on several occasions thrown computers at employees and threatened them. All of these business practices are conducted behind the cloak of Mr. Hanna's law license, which he and the other lawyers at his firm regularly hide behind in order to maintain the appearance of ethical behavior and to avoid the scrutiny that ordinary debt collection firms would normally receive.

A number of these employees who initiated contact with me further informed me that many other employees wished to reveal information to me about the Hanna firm's illegal business practices and hostile work environment, but were terrified of retaliation and/or termination because of the Hanna firm's arbitrary and harsh practice of terminating employees without proper cause in order to bully employees into ignoring and/or cooperating with the firm's illegal business practices. The Hanna firm is notorious in disputing each and every claim for unemployment benefits according to the employees that have come forward.

This Press Release is not about my case or me nor should it be. While their information will obviously be valuable in my pending litigation, there is a larger moral issue here -- a huge company is raking in huge profits in an unconscionable fashion, damaging tens of thousands of consumers a month while exploiting and abusing its own employees in the process.

I promised these employees I would do what I could to bring some public attention to their plight. Each might be willing to submit to an interview as long as they are hot in silhouette and their voices digitized so they cannot by identified by The Hanna Firm for fear of a ruthless retaliation against them.

Please let me know if you would like to review any of the information and/or documentation I have obtained, and let me know if you would like to discuss on the phone, 949-495-0089 or in the alternative,townsend@runbox.com

Sincerely,

Robert Townsend

Thank you for your post, Robert. While the information you have posted is shocking, it is by no means surprising.

I, too, have been a victim of this firm's ruthless debt collection practices, and would like nothing more than to see it join the ranks of Mann-Bracken, who was shut down in January of this year. Though the Georgia Department of Consumer Affairs was recently stymied in its efforts to force Hanna to turn over documents revealing his debt collection practices (The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in his favor because
the State was "Interfering with his practice of law"), Hanna will no longer be protected by the Georgia Constitution, if the Feds come after him.

Keep us posted.

Here is the link to Robert's post on Bud Hibbs' website:

http://www.collectorsexposed.com/forum/index.php?/topic/3246-debt-collector-hanna-and-associates-wins-battle-with-georgia-ultimately-loses-the-war/page__pid__20606__st__0&#entry20606

And, here is a link to the final ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court:

http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=ingaco20100607169

Bottomfeeder......I refer you to the serviceman's act (SCRA). He is deployed, fighting for your freedom.

Active duty members of the Armed Forces have special rights under the Servicemen's Civil Relief Act of 1940 (SCRA). The SCRA can be used to postpone certain civil obligations when the military member is materially affected by their service. The SCRA applies to many different circumstances, with different requirements in each area. This fact sheet is designed to give a general overview of the SCRA. Be sure to talk to a legal assistance attorney about your specific situation.

Stop these idiots from calling my cell number.

Collections
TCPA: What Is It & How Does It Affect You?

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) does many things - including prohibiting debt collectors from calling your cell phone without your permission. Each unauthorized call could result in the debt collector paying you up to $1,500. Here's some helpful information on the Act and how it might affect you.
What is the TCPA?

The TCPA, which was signed into law in 1991 under the first Bush Administration and codified under 47 U.S.C. 227, prohibits calls using any automatic telephone dialing system or artificial or prerecorded voices to:

•Emergency telephone lines
•Telephone lines of any guest room or patient room at a hospital, health care facility, elderly home or similar establishment
•Telephone numbers assigned to paging services, cellular telephone services, specialized mobile radio services, other radio common carrier services or any service for which the called party is charged for the call
•Any telephone call to a residential telephone line
•Send unauthorized faxes

The only way that a caller won't violate the statute is if express consent has been given - and violations of the TCPA are steep. An unintentional call carries a damage amount of $500; an intentional call carries a damage amount of $1,500. That's per call and regardless of the purpose of the call. In other words, if they call you using an automated dialing system without your consent, they've violated the Act and you are entitled to damages.

How does it affect you?

Most debt collectors use automatic telephone dialing systems to contact debtors. You'll recognize this when you go to pick up the phone and there is a slight hesitation on the other end. In fact, most debt collectors are calling nearly 100 people at a time just waiting for someone to answer. Although many have stopped calling landlines, cell phones are another story. Since more and more people are using cell phones either instead of, or in addition to, traditional landlines, debt collectors are finding their cell phone numbers using skip tracers, calling them and hoping that they don't realize that the TCPA has been violated.

http://bankruptcy-law.freeadvice.com/collections/tcpa_how_it_works.html

I get these calls all the time.  They are rude, and hang up on you.  I also get them at my home and I do not owe anyone money that I'm not paying.

This number is for Bank of America's internal collection legal department.  Usually a call will come from them if no contact has been made by the initial outsourced collection agency your account was assigned to (ie you never answered their calls or mail).

The calls are from Frederick Hannah and Associates out of Georgia.  They are a legitimate collection agency.  I have been dealing with them for a little while now.  I just settled my chase account which had a balance of almost 15k for 4k.  Just talk to them and try to work something out.

In a previous post of 2007


Per Bud Hibbs, if you are contacted by Frederick J. Hanna & Associates for anything that is related to Bank of America, consider it FRAUDULENT:

http://budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/hanna_frederick_j_assoc.htm

The link is gone ..I just got contacted from Hanna & Assoc .....are they registered to collect for BOFA or not?  MY EMAIL IS BRAGIOLE@BELLSOUTH.NET

Yes, they are a law firm. Fredrick J. Hannah & Associates P.C. 1427 Roswell Rd. Marietta, GA 30062. I received a letter from them regarding a debt to BoA which, because of the economy, I couldn't make payments to anymore because of a severe decrease in income. The account was initially turned over to Regional Adjustment Bureau in Memphis, TN. They kept calling and insisting on payments, and wouldn't accept that I was broke. They would leave messages, but I wouldn't return their calls, because what's the point in going round and round with them.

After a while, RAB quit calling and now along with the letter, Hannah & Assoc. call my machine just about everyday. They leave a message which sounds like it might be recorded because it's the same message word for word from the same guy with the same tone inflection in his voice.

These folks called my MagicJack line, which I got recently and rarely use. All my bank accounts and other institutions know my cell number and I'm in good standing with them all.

Something I've noticed is with this newish number, I get calls from folks who are looking for someone else. In other words, I believe I have a number that several other people used fairly recently. Shoot, I got a call from someone in jail I don't know on this number asking for someone to bail them out. They were asking for "Jason." I'm not "Jason."

I don't know whether it's a legitimate call or not. I suspect they are trying to get in touch with someone who gave the number as theirs years ago. Nevertheless, I advise no one give SS or CC info to anyone on the phone they don't know.

Thanks missus Hanna. A$$wipe.

Thanks for the advice Fred. Hugs and kisses!