fraud\scam or good service??

stop payment on the cheque, better be safe then sorry, why would you even consider giving them info over the phone,  if your not sure who is asking for money, there are tons of scam artist out there you can't keep up with them all looking for people who will send them info, which they will probably sell,

R. Sherman replied to me,
>>> I used to work for this company a couple of years ago. ... <<<

I have no personal knowledge of what you say nor any objective way to confirm its truth or falsity, so I can make no further substantive comment regarding this matter.  But your comment is now on the record for others to view.

I have also been scammed by these people to the tune of almost $4000.00, with only $1200.00 being returned as being saved in my account. The rest went to "administrative fees", even though I was paying a monthly fee already.  Am having the company investigated by BBB, Canadian Ombudsman, local papers and Television stations...will let you know how it comes about.

The reason they want you to pay more than they ask is so they can keep half like they did with mine. They never contact my creditors even though I faxed and emailed with updates, letters and reports on phone calls.  it is the biggest ripoff I have had the unfortunate circumstance to be involved with. They prey on people like us who are in trouble and offer ways of getting out of it...

Get a lawyer . They will back off. Contact your area's bar association and ask them to recommend a lawyer who will write a letter for $25-50. There are members of the bar who will do it as a goodwill to the bar. Especially semi retired ones. Good luck.

You signed an agreement with someone called Cockburn?  That should have been your first clue.

WTF is a Canadian accent?  And don't try to tell me that it's ending every sentence in "eh" because Canadians frown more upon using "eh" than any other country.

416 898 2980 calling back goes to real people behind scams / fraud, many calls from this number,

Yes I have...I have a case number and an associate dealing with my issue, same as yours.  I would recommend filing a complaint with them. Put as much detail as you can into the complaint but be prepared to back it up with documents because they will ask for proof of your complaint. They do not handle billing issues unless you paid for a service and did not receive any service at all, which is fraud.

Cockburn and associates is real and it help pay out of debt

This thread has attracted three years of consumer complaints and researched exposure of a fraudulent business model, shill rebuttals to said complaints, insults and doppelganging to distract from said complaints, repeated debunking of shills, repeated shill attacks on website contributors and management, labored and slanted arguments promoting the fraud shop, more debunking of shills, and various other efforts to disrupt discussion and diffuse all criticism of the company at issue.

Clearly the quality of shilling has declined to a vague and illiterate one-liner trying to ally itself with a shill post from July. One can only hope that good help with bad business is hard to find.

You are VERY suspicious.  Bad grammar.  Spelling mistakes.  Seems like you don't know our language too well.  I think you're a shill.

Mounths?  Do you mean Months?
Signal woman?  Do you mean Single woman?
Beening?  Do you mean Being or Been?
Do?  Do you mean Due?
Abale?  Do you mean Able?
Iam?  Do you mean I am?
Clector?  Do you mean Collector?
Clam?  Do you mean Claim?
Iam?  There's I am again.

The mumbling vote of confidence from "Kal" and the seven (presumably) troll posts suppressed by Admin came five days after one of the Cockburn clan was spanked with a judgment by the CFPB. Michael Lupolover and Premier Consulting Group, curiously sharing the same New Jersey address, are on the hook for violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule. "The CFPB alleged that the companies routinely charged consumers upfront fees before settling consumers’ debts. The illegal fees and the companies’ failures to provide effective services often caused consumers to fall further into debt and harm their credit history in the process", says the Bureau's press release.

CFPB Takes Action Against Debt-Settlement Firm
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/cfpb- ... ettlement-firm/

A month ago Lupolover's buddy Michael Levitis won himself nine years in prison as CEO of Mission Settlement Agency, another "debt fixer" which drained illegal and surprise upfront fees from people in financial distress and performed absolutely no service for those fees.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Debt Settlement Company And Six Individuals For Multi-Million Dollar Scheme That Targeted Debt-Ridden Consumers
http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/May13/MissionIndictmentPR.php

Debt settlement firm owner gets 9 years prison for fraud scheme
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102201663

MSA's normal routine was to lure debtors with false promises, lie to their faces during sales calls about debt "solutions", tell debtors to quit paying their lenders and pile up the money in "escrow" instead, and say anything to avoid giving refunds when the hapless customer finally got wise. Does any of that sound familiar? It's pretty much the same business model described repeatedly here as presented by Silverthorn-Lupolover-Cockburn-Whomever. Clearly this is not some isolated scheme. THIS ENTRAPMENT IS NORMAL from an attorney-branded "credit fixer". They promise the Moon and instead send your overall debt payload into orbit.

You poor reckless Canadians who got in bed with these Cockburn people are flirting with financial death. Authorities from multiple American agencies -- including the CFPB, FTC, DoJ, USPS Inspectors -- see this business model for the fraud it is. As I've said before, prepaid credit repair was outlawed in the US for a good reason. As I've also said before, it's well past time Canadian regulators get serious and make their citizens' money poisonous to crooks like those discussed above.

To C.L Olfason, You are such a liar,you telling us crap so you think we are, I can smell a crook!!!! get a life

To C.L Olfasin, we are not fools we don't buy that.Go and sleep