Date Received: 2020-09-15
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt was paid
Consumer Complaint: In XX/XX/2017 we changed cell phone providers from XXXX to XXXX. During the 14 day return policy we switched back to XXXX and returned the phones to XXXX. After a month or two received a bill from XXXX regarding the cell phones not being returned to the XXXX XXXX store in XXXX MD. I called the store and asked them about the phones in which they proceeded to say were not returned. I asked to see the camera footage and spoke with the manager of the store who advised me that they could not let me see this video to prove that the phones were returned.I then started calling XXXX XXXX for 6 or 7 months to find out where the phones were after they told me they were investigating they never found the phones and nothing was done to the store to reprimand or make sure that corporate could see the footage. Now XXXX XXXX has sent me to collections with Enhanced Recovery for {$1300.00}. XXXX XXXX has on record numerous calls made by me to resolve the issue after it happened and has sold the debt to enhanced recovery which is not owed. There is no bill for the acct other then the phones that were returned and were lost or misplaced by XXXX XXXX. I tried both store and corporate to get the issue resolved and still is showing on my credit report for something I did not owe and was returned.
Company Response:
State: MD
Zip: 21158
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-15
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-15
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt was already discharged in bankruptcy and is no longer owed
Consumer Complaint: I've never done any business with this company. I never signed a contract with this company. No one has any permission from me saying that I agreed to do any business with them either. Therefore, I want this item deleted from my credit report immediately. Thank you,
Company Response:
State: WI
Zip: 53210
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-15
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-16
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt is not yours
Consumer Complaint: Enhance Recovery Company has placed a collection on my credit profile claiming that I owe {$130.00} to XXXX. I have never had services with XXXX. Please remove this erroneous collection immediately.
Company Response:
State: TN
Zip: 38016
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-16
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-16
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt is not yours
Consumer Complaint: On XX/XX/2020, I received a letter from ERC stating that I was delinquent {$1100.00} on my XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. My bill is paid through auto draft ; I do not have any debt. The referenced account number is not mine. My name on my XXXX XXXX XXXX bill is spelled differently from the spelling of my name on the ERC collection statement. My husband 's name is on our XXXX XXXX account. I called both XXXX XXXX XXXX and XXXX XXXX. The referenced account number is XXXX ; no such account exists with either company. Furthermore, XXXX XXXX XXXX account XXXX XXXX with a XXXX. The referenced account starts with a XXXX I also called ERC using the number given in the statement I received and the number given online for the company. I believe it was the same person who answered both calls and both times said the same thing. They verified my current address and they also gave the same supposed former address which was not mine. They asked for the last 4 of my social security number. When I declined to give personal information, they said they could not help me. At first I thought someone was fraudulently using my name and address. But after discovering that the account number doesn't even exist, I am suspecting scam activity by ERC.
Company Response:
State: NC
Zip: 28792
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-16
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-16
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Information belongs to someone else
Consumer Complaint: XXXX opened a fraudulent account in my name. The person I spoke with in the fraud department said it could have been the person who lived here before me and they're placing the account under my name as a result. In order to have this account removed from my credit report, XXXX is asking me to send them proof of residence which I don't have. They're telling me that they possibly mistakenly put this account in my name and the burden is on me to produce a document I don't have access to in order to have this fraud removed from my name. XXXX sounds like a reckless company with unfair collections policies. Neither they nor the collections agency they've placed my account with have access to my account information because the account is too old. They can't even give me a complete address. The collections agency only has the city, state, and zip code. The collections company has no proof that I owe this debt and neither does XXXX XXXX. They're expecting me to jump through hoops to prove that I don't owe this debt but they can't even provide something as simple as an address where the service was supposedly installed.
Company Response:
State: AL
Zip: 352XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-16
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-15
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt is not yours
Consumer Complaint: Dept popped up and its not mine
Company Response:
State: OH
Zip: 440XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-15
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-14
Issue: Written notification about debt
Subissue: Didn't receive enough information to verify debt
Consumer Complaint: I have disputed this account and have reached out to the company/creditors MANY times but failed. This account is being reported inaccurately and incorrectly on my credit report.
Company Response:
State: RI
Zip: 028XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-14
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-13
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt was result of identity theft
Consumer Complaint: This is the third time that I have complained about this fraudulent account. I have attached a copy of my FTC ID Theft complaint and XXXX police report.ERC # XXXX XXXX XXXX NA # XXXX. I fail to see where ERC is in compliance with OHIO LAW. I also have report this account to the FTC, and XXXX Police Dept. I need this collection account to be removed from my credit report. ERC has not even tried to contact me regarding this Fraudulent collection account. Please have them remove this collection account immediately.
Company Response:
State: OH
Zip: 43206
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-13
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-11
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt is not yours
Consumer Complaint: In XXXX I had an XXXX door to door person offer a package deal for wireless and internet that I opted for. In this 'deal ' I got the newest XXXX. All I had to pay that day was 'tax on the XXXX ' I'd be getting, which was {$100.00}. I returned the phone in plenty of time not to pay any fees, didn't get any better service than I had with my XXXX with another cellular company. I returned the phone to the XXXX store, got a receipt, but XXXX still said the phone can't be found. Finally they FOUND it after a few months but still had not returned my TAX on the purchase! I was due the {$100.00} back, but instead they ignored helping me and I had to dispute this charge on my Visa. They tried to get XXXX and didn't get a response so I got my taxes on purchase refunded. Since then, I was billed over and over for it?? I called explaining this mulitple times, no one thought it was any big deal, did not help and finally it was turned over to XXXX XXXX XXXX out of NY, who hounded me with call after call for months and months but my phone blocks spam calling at this point. Now it has been changed to a new collection agency as of XX/XX/XXXX ENHANCED RECOVERY COLLECTIONS out of XXXX, FL. The process to dispute starts all over again, with what was MY money in the first place and my Visa investigated this and gave me the money back.. and yet I deal with this continuously for nearing 2 years now. I was advised by my identity theft protection company that monitors all my credit to write a complain to CFPB.
Company Response:
State: TN
Zip: 38401
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-11
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-09-10
Issue: Written notification about debt
Subissue: Didn't receive notice of right to dispute
Consumer Complaint: I checked my credit and saw an account from enhanced recovery for {$920.00} for XXXX. My granddaughter used my information to obtain a cell phone. I'd like to negotiate payment of {$400.00} for the balance to be deleted from collections. That's all I can pay as I have been furloughed due to COVID19.
Company Response:
State: FL
Zip: 32303
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-09-10
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A