these folk never leave a message in reference to what they are calling for, you only get half of the message which is just a message to call the number. they even called me on a sunday ....

i was told not to contect them back and if they contected me ask them to send me proof of the collection and then a officer called and left me a message  to call him back but i was told not to contect him but is it really worth the courts time for a little ove a thousand dollars and they finally left me a voicemail the day before there decision and in was in afternoon after 4 pm and they never got back to me until 8

So your a bottom feeder as well.

I live in pa and they did the same thing to me . I didnt recieve any notice from them until 9 months later after they had already sued me . I know this is illegal so I'm going to legal aid and I also filed a complaint with the ftc.

weltman weigerb and reese is trying to sue me they have a judgement against me and is freezing my bank accounts ad selling my personal property can they do this i am in pa

I was sued by one of these debt buyers in NY.  I hired a consumer lawyer and we easily won our case saving me over 2 thousand dollars.  If you are sued by one of these firms, don't do nothing.  Collection cases are easy to beat!

They will try to garnish your wages, they are calling you to get information to send a summon or service you to appear in court, if you no show they will get a default judgment.  After that they will then claim that the judgment is not satisfied and add extra amounts to the bill, don't let them do this if the garnishment is a for a specific amount + interest make sure that the amount to be paid has end, such as an amortization schedule...

To whom it may concern:

I am interested in emailing HR @ Weltman, Weinberg & Reiss to subnit an application.

Thanks,

Terri

Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP
702 King Farm Blvd. Ste 500
Rockville, MD 20850-5775
Phone: (240) 386-3000  800-850-0948   800-303-0930
800-678-7720 - 800-365-6584    888-200-4417
800-302-7933
Fax: (240) 386-3822 & 240-386-3823

Head Debt Collectors:
Stuart J. Wolpoff, President
Harry K. Wolpoff, CCCE, Partner
Laurence C. Abramson, Partner
Ronald Marc Abramson, Partner

Bud Says...
ONE OF AMERICA'S WORST COLLECTION AGENCYS!

Can you say BILLIONAIRES?? Yes, Wolpoff & Abramson are on target o become the first BILLIONAIRES of the collection industry.

They have an incredible network of law firms across the country who sue on debt that were purchased for pennies, then many have arbitration claims files and/or sue upon. They buy themselves whatever they want and sometime, whomever they want to achieve their goals. To put this empire of scam in perspective here are some of the players:

First, one false rumor is that Wolpoff & Abramson (W&A) own the National Arbitration Forum (NAF); that is FALSE! They are the single largest supplier of claims to the NAF and at $ 250.00/per claim, it?s easy to see why they win approximately 95-98% of all claims filed. This is further bolstered by the fact that NAF pays their arbitrators (attorneys, retired judges) a fee of $250/hour to handle claims. The rules state they must handle six claims per hour for this $250, so you can understand that any claimant would be lucky for even a cursory review of documents.  

Buying bad debts for 2-3¢on the dollar (many for a lot less), paying the NAF $250 with an almost guaranteed award in your favor and a network of lawyers filing suits spells money on the level of a South American drug cartel to Wolpoff & Abramson.

W&A pulls the strings for NCAN; the National Collection Attorney Network which is comprised of over 100 law offices across the U.S. of attorneys who sue on debts. A few of these attorneys are good, honest, hard working, many more are inept, have very little understanding of the FDCPA, have no knowledge of any material facts other than what they are told to say and do. They get paid a contingency fee to show up in court, many never do, hoping to take default judgments.  

Thank goodness for NACA attorneys who have the skills and experience to litigate against them, I recommend you always contact one at:  www.naca.net

Think your going to beat an arbitration claim? Not when the arbitrator is being paid $250/hour and can be fed claims all day long. Think your rights under the law mean anything? Think again! I have been contacted on hundreds, perhaps thousands of arbitration claims and only one attorney from Texas had the guts to stand up and say??Hey! This is wrong!? The good news is he took his job seriously; the bad news is he is no longer an arbitrator for the NAF. Many of these arbitrators would feel very comfortable performing their jobs in a Nevada brothel as the two jobs perform similar services.

Think your going to get satisfaction from the Montgomery County, MD or Maryland State Bar for ethics complaints against W&A?  NOPE! Seems Daddy sits on both boards and not many complaints ever go very far. Here is a partial list of collectors owned/used by W&A:

Alegis Group, Sherman Acquisitions, LVNV Funding, LLC

Arrow Financial Services

Asta Funding

Colonial Credit Corporation

Palisades Collections, LLC

Preferred Platinum Plan aka The Porn Collectors

Great Seneca Financial

Centurion Capital

Sage Financial

Monarch Financial

Hawker Financial

W&A cannot purchase debts as a law firm, so they apparently use these shell organizations to accomplish that goal.

Some of their largest NCAN Attorneys include:

Cohen & Slamowitz, LLP

Hosto & Buchan

Javitz, Block, & Rathbone, LLP

Mitchell N. Kay, P.C.

Love, Beal & Nixon, P.C.

Mel S. Harris & Associates

Messerli & Kramer

Johnson, Riddle & Mark  fka/Riddle & Associates

Trauner, Cohen & Thomas

WELTMAN, WEINBERG & REIS

W&A also has offices in many cities where the phones and faxes all ring in at Rockville, MD. They use an auto dialer that calls some consumers as many as 20 times daily (according to complaints I received) and make it near impossible to get wrong persons removed.

They file cases by the hundreds every day and reportedly even supply court clerks to work side by side with real court clerks to get the filings done.

Want to validate a debt? Fuggettaboutit! ?Won?t happen! Slows them down, who gives a damn about the law and consumer rights? They have daily, weekly, monthly goals to hit. Besides, they will manufacture most documents in-house for court filings; even notarize them by employees attesting to hearsay facts that are not admissible in most courts.

Some smart consumer attorney may one day put W&A employees under oath and learn that Affidavits that are legally supposed to be signed in the presence of the person attesting to the truthfulness (?) of the documents, have instead taken them home to be stamped and signed because of the work load. Again, the law and consumer rights are not the issue at W&A, profits are!

NOTE TO EMPLOYEES AT W&A:

THINK YOU HAVE PRIVACY WORKING THERE? THE NEW SECURITY PEOPLE (former CIA?) HAVE CAMERAS EVERYWHERE INCLUDING SEVERAL IN AREAS YOU DON?T EVEN KNOW ABOUT. THINK YOUR COMPUTER ISN?T BEING MONITORED? THINK AGAIN! THERE ARE EYES EVERYWHERE, WATCHING YOU, CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY, THIS IS SECURITY ?CIA STYLE?? NOTHING IS SECRET AT WORK!

W&A will go to no end to protect their Niagara Falls of cash flowing into their coffers. Nobody is protected, nothing is sacred, whatever it takes. Money rules this organization, EVERYTHING else is secondary. They don?t own the NAF but they damn sure control them. My advice is to make them spend as much money as possible on each and every account they collect. Send them validation notices and tie up their collectors for as long as possible.  NEVER fail to show up in court-- they miss a lot more court dates than they keep. Make the NAF work, send them validation notices, and force them to prove you are party to any arbitration agreement. Many, many courts are moving closer to consumers, and attitudes are changing, W&A has lost several BIG court decisions; keep as much pressure on them as you can. Each and every consumer fighting at the grass roots level will help, as well as making their illegal deeds known to your Congressman, Senators, and Judges. Use the experts at NACA  www.naca.net

This is a struggle Americans can win, one account, one consumer at a time.

After you get over getting mad, GET EVEN! Make it costly to come after every account, it adds up quickly, a phone call, a stamp, a collector who can?t collect; dispute, validate, make them pay with time and money at EVERY step.

http://www.budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/wolpoff_abramson.htm

It's Weltman, Weinberg & Reiss. They are a debt collection law firm licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio. They collect on debts and in some cases file legal action if their client so desires

Did they remove you from their phone list, or are you still getting phone calls?

Attorneys? Constant calling, daily.  Recorded message asking me to call the  (800) 765-1056 number.  How do we end this abuse?  I, too, am on the do-not-call list.

Did you ever figure out how to get them to stop calling?  Thanks.

I get them calling almost every day.  I even shut off my answering machine for 2 weeks hoping to put an end to their calls.  I am on the do not call list too.  "Please call us for a very important message"

How do I get them to STOP calling me??

This is a collection agency. We've had a bunch of these companies call because of the person who had our phone number before we got 7 months ago. They said they'd remove us from their phone list. We'll see...