WAMU again -- the caller ID displays Clorox, Hugo Boss, Palantine IL, Pleasonton CA or just "Marketing". Pick it up - nobody there. They call 10-20 times a day. Very annoying.

That is really bad advise- why would you sue a collector for the banks issue- if you have proof that the debt isn't owed then the collector will cancel the account. all your doing is promoting the downfall of our ecomony - maybe if people paid their bills we wouldn't be in the financial mess we are in.

Listen up wamu you have NEVER EVER accepeted any payments against your debt in fact in your warped bizzare math people have ended up owing more than the origanl charges. these is nothing more that a glorified racket and beaks every law in the world.

I agree with the fact that people should not complain about having to pay bills or getting calls from collectors trying to get their money. The arguement here, for the most part is that they are harrassing people even though they are making arrangements, do not have any debt with them, etc.
How the hell do you know the lady you are speaking of has not tried to get a job? Take a look at the economy buddy. I got fired under extremely shady circumstances when I was 8 months pregnant with my second child. I can't find a job any where that would pay me enough to cover expenses and child care despite my good employment history and best efforts. All my bills were paid on time (if not earlier) until I lost my job. I get calls every 1/2 hour from collection agencies and it is very frustrating. for you to be so ignorant as to say get off your a** and get a job like that's all it takes if idiotic. Get your head out of your a** and realize there's more to it than that. Unless you are put in to such a situation, you have no right having an opinion about it.

As many of you can tell, WAMU has paid a few clowns to go around and post on boards such as these, You will find they make similar statements at all the sites.
I got a kick out of the water head who said that no one would call you if you just paid your bill...and in the next sentence said they were calling him looking for someone else...Even though he told them that they did not work there anymore. This of course could NEVER happen to anyone besides HIM...All of the rest of you are just not paying your bills, that is the reason you are getting called, only HE receives wrong calls.  What a DOPE!!!
Anyway, the company WAMU itself is extremely evil. Look up some of the scams they pull, like making a payment late when it was paid on time so they can raise your rate. It then turns into many people not paying. Then you deal with who ever they hire for collections (maybe it's in house). Maybe one of the asshats who work there and patrol these board telling people to pay their bill could tell us. Either way, the people they use to collect are a match for the rest of the crooked company. You sheep that think all big companies would never do anything wrong or harass people with no bill due, need to set down the glue you're sniffing for a few days and read a newspaper....You know....maybe get a new perspective on the life that is flying past you and what is being done to you while in your haze of follow the leader. BAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
For the rest of you normal people...Think about this, If a guy/gal is posting on this site and telling you to "just pay your bill" why are they here? Did the accidentally put in a 10 digit code in the right order to get here? They came to this site by complete accident right? Then...since they were here by complete accident...they decided to read all the post....then they decided to make a post of their own and tell you to pay your bill? SUUUUURE (insert big eye roll here). These are the people who work at WAMU...please disregard their statements and continue on, they are nothing more than paid (poorly paid) lemmings.

Pay your bills and you don't have anything to worry about.  To all the morons who say they are going to sue, if you had money to waste on a lawyer, why can't you use it to pay your debt instead?

8:00 in the morning. didnt pick up because i did not recognize the number. had some past flings so i dont pick up if i dont recognize,LOL! guess it was i good call i made...

Looks like this thread may have died a bit but here it goes anyway.

To get on their do not call list - write to the following address:
WAMU
PO Box 660509
Dallas, TX 75266-0509

You must include a letter stating you do not what them to call you - Here is a copy of mine.  Copy, paste and print if you like...
........................................................

REMOVE ME FROM YOUR CALL LIST ? I DO NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO HARASS ME BY PHONE.  YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CALL ANY OF MY CONTACT NUMBERS TO COLLECT ON THIS ACCOUNT.  STOP AT ONCE OR I WILL SEEK LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOU.

.........................................................

Also here are some links to the Consumer Affairs office and ACA.  We should all file complaints against them.  The more the better chance we have at changing this illegal act made by WAMU.

Consumer Affairs: (click red button on the top right) http://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/washington_mutual_bank.htm
ACA:  http://www.acainternational.org/codeofconduct.aspx?cid=11672


Good look,
~Alan

Just got a call from that number,it rang once and that was it.This has been ongoing from several numbers for the past few weeks.
We just paid all our back debt off,so this should cease,but the gall they have ringing once and not holding on!Then when someone is on the other end they either speak no english or it's a damn computer voice.What chicken****s.
Mary,I know your pain,they found out my work number and I almost got fired for it (work for transportation industry,they're quite sensitive to this post 9/11).I told them if they ever called my work again I'd own them.It stopped mighty quick.

your respond & comment can only mean that you are a complete moron. How do you know what this womens situation is!!!Trials & Trebulations of life aren't easy for some. Maybe she passed away!!! I'm so glad that you are fortunate enough not to have such problems and may god bless!!!!

You to me are a big Pendejo!!!!!

I told the women that she had called my place of business and please call my resident, she would not listen and told me her questions would only take a couple of mins, I repeated my 1st request that this is a personal matter and call my home, she still would not listen and continued to badger me, I hung up the phone.

I'm so sick and tired of MORONS who insist that we are idiots because we don't pay our bills. THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM HERE! Many people miss a single payment now and again. I have several credit cards, and have missed an occasional payment on some of them. NOT ONE OF MY ACCOUNTS HAS EVER CALLED ME FOR A SINGLE MISSED PAYMENT!

These idiots from WAMU think they own the world and have the right to HARASS us due to one lousy missed payment! And they KEEP DOING IT EVEN AFTER THE PAYMENT IS MADE, AND THE ACCOUNT IS UP TO DATE AND CURRENT!!!!!!!!!

I don't give a flying CRAP what the law says, or doesn't say.

Any idiot knows that kind of behavior is harassment, and we are on the verge of transferring this balance to another company that will treat us like human beings!!

If the damn laws aren't protecting us from this, THEY DAMN WELL OUGHT TO!

As for the person who cited title 15 USC 1692 ss (a)(6)(a), "Harassment" under that title is partly, but specifically defined under:

§ 806. Harassment or abuse,

(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.

Note the paragraph states "ANY PERSON AT THE CALLED NUMBER."

I have already told them I consider their calls harassing, and this phone is in MY name!

Calling people repeatedly MANY times per day is a CLEAR violation of this law, no matter how many different telephones they do it from.

I'm sure any judge with half a brain would agree. These MORONS are going to continue doing this until somebody decides to fight back. They don't care, because before they are stopped, these tactics will have paid off more than a lawsuit would inevitably cost. What they DON'T bother to account for is the lost future sales from this idiotic behavior.

In the midst of all these repeated, and harassing calls about my wife's account, I just got an invitation in the mail to sign up for a new card from them!

Pardon me while I go feed the shredder...

Actually, im in the middle of Chapter 7....primarily because of WaMu, and I just cant wait til it goes through and they are left holding the bag....

WHen i knew the Chapter 7 was going thru, i max'd out my card too, since its going to be wiped clean....took myself out for a spa treamtment and everything.

SCrew that company, they are the worst ever Bank, credit card Ive ever had.

If you don't want Wamu calling you at all hours, try paying your bills. Not a hard concept. The phone on the desk next to me rings all day, all from Wamu. The woman they are calling for doesn't even work here anymore. She's obviously still unemployed and sitting on her butt at home, living off government checks, not paying her bills.

Blows my mind that people are complaining about credit card companies calling for payment. GET A JOB AND PAY YOUR DEBT.

Wamu

I'm sure they don't have offices in all these area codes. For instance with Vonage they can pick what ever area code and exchenge they want...and make calls from same office with as many different area codes as they want. Sounds decieving doesn't it?

LAWSUIT....LEARN THE FACTS....YOUR PAYING FOR THEM TO CALL YOU...PLUS YOU ARE PAYING THE GOVENRMENT TO MAKE LAWS THAT ALLOW THEM TO REPEATEDLY CALL YOU...

NO WONDER MY INTEREST RATE IS SO HIGH...THESE C***SUCKERS HAVE CALL CENTERS IN JUST ABOUT EVERY STATE!!!

The following numbers are ALL used by the same Department of WAMU
866-619-5495
970-797-3002
619-471-0037
847-221-0024
703-269-0648
303-481-0027
414-214-0359
214-245-1783
954-377-0257
602-358-0120
916-576-0200
845-558-3271
818-922-0001
866-619-5496
866-619-5494
866-619-5497
800-297-8359
303-209-0040
623-476-0009
626-534-0250
770-240-0000

Enjoy - hope they have phone company stock  ;o)

yes!class action! I'll join!!!
They cut off my home equity line of credit with no warning or cause, leaving me holding the bag with contractors who were working on my house. I have papers to support me but they don't care. The worst bank ever

I got a call from this number  321-549-3042 and other numbers such as 770-240-0000, 713-292-0134 and even 847-221-0024 all having the strangest preset voice message to log onto a FAKE WAMU website. I DON'T EVEN HAVE A DEBT WITH ANYONE! POEPLE DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM OR ENTER ANY INFORMATION!!!

this is just one number of 5 different phone numbers from which I get called all day long.  They never leave messages.

This way you cannot block the number.  It is like phone spam.......
They are good.  I just keep adding the numbers to my block list on the cell phone.  Sometimes they repeat the number.  I get them from Oregon to Florida daily. Even Sundays and holidays and I don't have a debt problem with anyone. They have the wrong number.   I did not even know who it was calling till I googled the number and saw everyone's problems.  I will not call the number back as I don't want to confirm they have a valid number or get my name.

I tell you this WAMU has been a nightmare of a company!!!. Its my husband accounts and when I call and get a foreign rep the sound like robots disclosing "they cant speak to me about the account due to privacy laws" which is true and wouldnt be an issue to me if they were consistent about their policies, but they're not. Depending on what number you dial (they have so many regional numbers) you will get someone willing to talk to me about my husband account. Anyway, they promised they would work with us to bring the account current considering that we're in foreclosure. I set up several auto draft pymts, and every time I called in advance to reschedule/cancel a payment to avoid NSF, they would give me grief about them not being able to do so because the credit card is not in my name (its only in my husbands name),even though the bank draft is from my personal individual bank account. My bank can stop the draft because its authorized and its not considered a ck. So im stuck in a nightmarish dilemma. THey tried to auto draft my account not twice (2x) but 3 separate times costing me $120 in NSF fees. I was able to replace the ck with a another payment , but the account was still closed subsequent to a "account review" determining that one of our cks had been returned NSF. I argued with them to no avail. they claim my husband's acct doesnt qualify to be reopened because of the NSF ck, even though I notified them in advance and made good with a subsequent ck. I requested the name of their collections dept manager/director, but the supv refused ,so I threatened to contact their corporate office and report their erroneous policy and thats when she referred me to their cust relations dept to file a complaint with them. We have no other option but to work with them, we owe too much money ( $10K) and they will certainly sue us if we dont make some type of arrangement. We're drowning adn my husband is reluctant to file for bankruptcy.  What a nightmare!!!.

THAT IS WASHINGTON MUTUAL. I OWE THEM MONEY AND COMMUTE TO THEM THAT BECAUSE OF A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, I CANNOT RESUME PAYMENT UNTIL BEGINNING OF MAY.  THEY CALL EVERY HALF HOUR DESPITE MY ACCEPTING ONE OF THEIR CALLS EACH DAY.  845-558-3271, 800-553-1077, 760-904-5066, 847-221 0024, WAS RECEIVED BEFORE 10:00 AM.

CALL THEM AT 1 800 955 7070 AND WAIT FOR PROMPT NUMBER 3 AND SAY YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE PAYMENT. YOU WILL GET A LIVE OPERATOR.  CALL THEM ANY TIME YOU GET A CALL FROM THEM. JAM THEIR LINES LIKE THEY JAM MY CALLS ALL DAY LONG. THEY CALL FROM OREGON, NEW YORK, FLORIDA, ETC.

JAM THEIR LINES. UNFORTUNATEY, THEY WON'T HAVE CALLER ID BEEPING ALL THROUGH A CALL WHILE TRYING TO MAKE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS, SELLING A HOUSE AND TALKING TO INSURANCE COMPANIES.

I got calls from 509-481-9106 (WA) 847-221-0024 (IL) 412-595-9025 (PA) 626-534-0250 (CA) 602-3580120 (AZ) and 617-449-0075 (MA) for being 44 days past due on my WAMU credit card. But... you know what? I HAVENT PAID MY BILL!! They've only called once a day.

In their defense, I called them and made a nominal payment until I can fully catch up, and they were very nice about it. Bottom line... I need to pay my bill!

You can not sue a credit card company or any creditor due to a blanket exemption clause in the law. You can only sue the debt collectors for that. The banks can due what ever they want. Here look it up. It is in title 15 USC 1692 ss (a)(6)(a). Wait until you get sent to collections then sue the collector!

I PLAN TO FILE SUIT AGAINST WASHINGTON MUTUAL IN UNLAWFUL AND ABUSIVE DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES.  PERHAPS A CLASS ACTION SUIT NATIONWIDE WOULD HELP WAMU REALIZE THE NEED COMPLY WITH EXISTING LAWS.

Washington Mutual Bank in efforts to collect a debt in the State of California, although an original creditor, is in violation pursuant to State of California Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, to wit, Rosenthal Act under California Civil Code Section 1788 et seq., by making repeated unsolicited telephone calls, whereby causing the phone to ring repeatedly and not engaging in conversation with the recipient of the call.

Washington mutual...these guys are amazing!!!  it's like they call from a diferent area code every time