ONE OF
AMERICA'S WORST
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:
Rumor
is 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 |
|
Great Seneca
Financial |
|
Centurion Capital |
|
Sage Financial |
|
Monarch Financial |
|
Hawker Financial
|
|
Preferred Platinum Plan aka The Porn Collectors |
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. |
|
Mel S. Harris & Associates |
|
Messerli &
Kramer |
|
Love, Beal & Nixon, P.C. |
|
Riddle &
Associates |
|
Johnson, Riddle & Mark |
|
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.
