Camco Capital Acquisitions, Camco likes to threaten your credit report and will say if you do not pay they will ruin your credit. Camco collects on fear, indimidation, and moral abuse. Rockford Illinois

The Illinois Attorney General's office is very much aware of Camco's violations. However, they
need more post-FTC fine complaints and many of you are not doing this. Here are some violations.
1)threats to ruin your credit
2)threats to sue you
3)threats of bodily harm
4)threats to pull inquiries until you pay
5)refusal to send proof of debt
6)degrading name calling or any form of harrassment
7)refusal to cease communications when told to stop
8)collecting on BKed debts after being told they were discharged in bankruptcy

If you have had these done to you PLEASE MAKE YOUR COMPLAINT. You are not
the only victims here and thousands more could be saved if you take 10
minutes of your own time to fill out the complaints and either mail or email
them in(not sure where the email is so find it on their site). I talked to
the person in charge of the camco case and they need them NOW. Here is the
website.
http://www.ag.state.il.us/consumers/index.htm

Barbara,

I spoke with Martin Burns of FOX 11 News who said they are still interviewing sCAMCO victims, so the story may not be out yet.

Today, I also called Sarah Roberts [DELETED] of the Rockford Register Star who is wrapping up yet another story on sCAMCO that will be sent out over the wire. If you would like her to e-mail you a copy of the story, her e-mail address is [DELETED].

I've checked the Fox 11 LA web site and can find no reference to the story. Has anyone else seen anything elsewhere on the internet regarding their story? Thanks.

Fox11 news in LA will be doing a story. There is a possibility this could go national(or so I hope). They plan on exposing the scam Camco runs and we already have some big name attorneys on board. Fox also has an army of attorneys and a heck of alot more cash than camco does so camco can do nothing.

We have a few ex-employees of camco involved in this story including a former high up manager of the company. Now comes your turn to be heard. They are looking for Camco victims to come forth and tell their story. They want to hear about the threats and lies and harrassment of the company. Do not worry ripoffreport- this is the real deal and I hope you leave the contact info up. Feel free to check it out yourselves.

If this goes national camco is finished because alot of people watch Fox and an informed consumer will never be a victim of camco's criminal tricks again. Also, I have talked to a few NACA attorneys and they stated camco's latest trick is to either threaten or actually pull multiple hard inquiries in order to make you pay a nonexistent bill. This is called poisoning your credit and it is illegal.

Also Camco has put up something like 244 million in debt for sale to the highest bidder which means everything will start over again with a new agency i.e. whitewing financial or merchant credit guide. Your rights are still the same and if you asked for validation of the debt and they sent none and sold it you can go after them. Do not worry about me- I know enough attorneys and high up government employees to annihilate them should they ever dare sue me. Here is the information. BE HEARD!!!!

We're doing a story/investigation for Fox11 News in Los Angeles about
the scam

Please call either:

Dan Leighton: 310-877-3392
email: leighton@fox11LA.com

or Martin Burns at 310-466-4567

If you'd rather us call you, you can email us over the weekend with
your ph# -- use fox11news@hotmail.com (I can only check this email when
I'm at the station)

Thanks for your help...

Dan Leighton
Sr. Producer
Fox11News/Los Angeles
_________________

Fox11 news in LA will be doing a story. There is a possibility this could go national(or so I hope). They plan on exposing the scam Camco runs and we already have some big name attorneys on board. Fox also has an army of attorneys and a heck of alot more cash than camco does so camco can do nothing.

We have a few ex-employees of camco involved in this story including a former high up manager of the company. Now comes your turn to be heard. They are looking for Camco victims to come forth and tell their story. They want to hear about the threats and lies and harrassment of the company. Do not worry ripoffreport- this is the real deal and I hope you leave the contact info up. Feel free to check it out yourselves.

If this goes national camco is finished because alot of people watch Fox and an informed consumer will never be a victim of camco's criminal tricks again. Also, I have talked to a few NACA attorneys and they stated camco's latest trick is to either threaten or actually pull multiple hard inquiries in order to make you pay a nonexistent bill. This is called poisoning your credit and it is illegal.

Also Camco has put up something like 244 million in debt for sale to the highest bidder which means everything will start over again with a new agency i.e. whitewing financial or merchant credit guide. Your rights are still the same and if you asked for validation of the debt and they sent none and sold it you can go after them. Do not worry about me- I know enough attorneys and high up government employees to annihilate them should they ever dare sue me. Here is the information. BE HEARD!!!!

We're doing a story/investigation for Fox11 News in Los Angeles about
the scam

Please call either:

Dan Leighton: 310-877-3392
email: leighton@fox11LA.com

or Martin Burns at 310-466-4567

If you'd rather us call you, you can email us over the weekend with
your ph# -- use fox11news@hotmail.com (I can only check this email when
I'm at the station)

Thanks for your help...

Dan Leighton
Sr. Producer
Fox11News/Los Angeles
_________________

Fox11 news in LA will be doing a story. There is a possibility this could go national(or so I hope). They plan on exposing the scam Camco runs and we already have some big name attorneys on board. Fox also has an army of attorneys and a heck of alot more cash than camco does so camco can do nothing.

We have a few ex-employees of camco involved in this story including a former high up manager of the company. Now comes your turn to be heard. They are looking for Camco victims to come forth and tell their story. They want to hear about the threats and lies and harrassment of the company. Do not worry ripoffreport- this is the real deal and I hope you leave the contact info up. Feel free to check it out yourselves.

If this goes national camco is finished because alot of people watch Fox and an informed consumer will never be a victim of camco's criminal tricks again. Also, I have talked to a few NACA attorneys and they stated camco's latest trick is to either threaten or actually pull multiple hard inquiries in order to make you pay a nonexistent bill. This is called poisoning your credit and it is illegal.

Also Camco has put up something like 244 million in debt for sale to the highest bidder which means everything will start over again with a new agency i.e. whitewing financial or merchant credit guide. Your rights are still the same and if you asked for validation of the debt and they sent none and sold it you can go after them. Do not worry about me- I know enough attorneys and high up government employees to annihilate them should they ever dare sue me. Here is the information. BE HEARD!!!!

We're doing a story/investigation for Fox11 News in Los Angeles about
the scam

Please call either:

Dan Leighton: 310-877-3392
email: leighton@fox11LA.com

or Martin Burns at 310-466-4567

If you'd rather us call you, you can email us over the weekend with
your ph# -- use fox11news@hotmail.com (I can only check this email when
I'm at the station)

Thanks for your help...

Dan Leighton
Sr. Producer
Fox11News/Los Angeles
_________________

Fox11 news in LA will be doing a story. There is a possibility this could go national(or so I hope). They plan on exposing the scam Camco runs and we already have some big name attorneys on board. Fox also has an army of attorneys and a heck of alot more cash than camco does so camco can do nothing.

We have a few ex-employees of camco involved in this story including a former high up manager of the company. Now comes your turn to be heard. They are looking for Camco victims to come forth and tell their story. They want to hear about the threats and lies and harrassment of the company. Do not worry ripoffreport- this is the real deal and I hope you leave the contact info up. Feel free to check it out yourselves.

If this goes national camco is finished because alot of people watch Fox and an informed consumer will never be a victim of camco's criminal tricks again. Also, I have talked to a few NACA attorneys and they stated camco's latest trick is to either threaten or actually pull multiple hard inquiries in order to make you pay a nonexistent bill. This is called poisoning your credit and it is illegal.

Also Camco has put up something like 244 million in debt for sale to the highest bidder which means everything will start over again with a new agency i.e. whitewing financial or merchant credit guide. Your rights are still the same and if you asked for validation of the debt and they sent none and sold it you can go after them. Do not worry about me- I know enough attorneys and high up government employees to annihilate them should they ever dare sue me. Here is the information. BE HEARD!!!!

We're doing a story/investigation for Fox11 News in Los Angeles about
the scam

Please call either:

Dan Leighton: 310-877-3392
email: leighton@fox11LA.com

or Martin Burns at 310-466-4567

If you'd rather us call you, you can email us over the weekend with
your ph# -- use fox11news@hotmail.com (I can only check this email when
I'm at the station)

Thanks for your help...

Dan Leighton
Sr. Producer
Fox11News/Los Angeles
_________________

I heard about the little meeting between camco and jessie riddle on me. I also heard you guys thought I was some guy named Scott who worked for Camco. HAHAHA. I have never worked for Camco and I am not the Scott in question. In fact, I have never even had a bill with Camco. I am just a consumer protection advocate who has had enough of your company's illegal doings. Now I am getting ready to do a news story with a major television studio on Camco. Choke on that one. I assume all 500+ people here are making things up also? The illinois AG is probably up over 600 complaints now and there were so many FTC complaints they fined your company 300k. I guess everyone was lying also. I get 10-15 emails a day from camco victims and I assume all of them are lying also. Well Shannon if I hear your name associated with a single bit of abuse I will personally pay their legal fees to see you and camco get sued.

Shannon, please go back and get a decent education. Your post is almost unreadable. As far as you working for CAMCO, having read your post, I can see that you're probably limited as to where you can work.

Since you're at CAMCO now, I am assuming Wendy's didn't pan out for you. Sorry. As for CAMCO, yeah I received a letter a little over a year ago from a Greg Crawford, several letters in fact. Well, to let you know just how STUPID you CAMCO idiots are, your response to the Illinois AG was that there was not now nor has there ever been anyone working there named Greg Crawford.

That's funny, because I have several letters on CAMCO letterhead with that name printed and signed on them. Oh well, since we all know the intelligence level of the people that work there, that doesn't surprise me at all. You people are a joke!!

OKAY PEOPLE IF SCOTT WERE BEING HONEST about being attact by camco emoloyees then why hasn't he reported any of it hello he isn't being honest. ialso i work at camco the training that he mentioned is completly false. we have all heard aboujt how scott collected his money he was a top dogg until he himself broke the fdcpa rules and got canned don't let him fool you it's up yo you weather or not you pay your bills but don't be fooled by scott's attempts to bash a company that he made a lot of money from

OKAY PEOPLE IF SCOTT WERE BEING HONEST about being attact by camco emoloyees then why hasn't he reported any of it hello he isn't being honest. ialso i work at camco the training that he mentioned is completly false. we have all heard aboujt how scott collected his money he was a top dogg until he himself broke the fdcpa rules and got canned don't let him fool you it's up yo you weather or not you pay your bills but don't be fooled by scott's attempts to bash a company that he made a lot of money from

OKAY PEOPLE IF SCOTT WERE BEING HONEST about being attact by camco emoloyees then why hasn't he reported any of it hello he isn't being honest. ialso i work at camco the training that he mentioned is completly false. we have all heard aboujt how scott collected his money he was a top dogg until he himself broke the fdcpa rules and got canned don't let him fool you it's up yo you weather or not you pay your bills but don't be fooled by scott's attempts to bash a company that he made a lot of money from

Scott,

I failed to complete my earlier comment; but, I was unable to e-mail you at your posted hotmail e-mail address. Are you still assisting with the draft of a Cease and Desist letter to CAMCO? If so, can you provide your updated e-mail address?

Thanks,

Scott,

I just attempted to e-mail you a request for cease and desist letter to CAMCO.

Thanks,

There is even more news coming out on this scam company and I wanted to bump up my post so that others can be helped. Of course, since I originally posted this thread camco has been hit by the FTC for 300k as many of you know.

Now California is getting into the picture and I will paste the story below.

DA Warns Of Debt Collection Scam
Strong Warning Issued To Consumers

POSTED: 5:35 pm PDT May 4, 2004
UPDATED: 10:12 am PDT May 5, 2004

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- The Santa Cruz District Attorney's Office issued a strong warning Tuesday about a collection company that, the office says, is going to extremes to get its cash.

The District Attorney's Office is calling Capital Acquisitions and Management Co., or CAMCO, a scam, saying that dozens of people are being hounded by the company.

Federal regulators, who say the company went too far in trying to collect debts, recently fined CAMCO

Live Oak resident Mary Williams (pictured, left), 75, says she received three calls, claiming she owed about $7,500 in credit card debt from more than 20 years ago. She said the first caller told her if she sent $300, everything would be fine. She also said she received a letter demanding payment, but she called the police instead.


"If this is illegal, what else can they do that's illegal. And if they're targeting other seniors on the Central Coast, I want them to know what this letter looks like and to report it immediately," Williams said.

Williams isn't alone. The Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office said as many as 30 other people have received threatening calls that cross the line, claiming to deduct money from wages, and even swearing at people on the phone.

If you receive a call from CAMCO, the District Attorney's Office suggests you insist the agent contact you with written verification of any debt that you owe, get the name and phone number of the company and the person calling, and make sure you let them know you don't want to be contacted by CAMCO again.

Last month, CAMCO and a subsidiary, RM Financial Services Inc., settled a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission, where CAMCO agreed to pay $300,000 and stop illegal practices, but never admitted to any wrongdoing.

The District Attorney's Consumer Affairs Department said that debts more than 4 years old typically have expired statutes of limitations and that lawsuits are impossible.

The head of CAMCO's compliance department said that if they find someone using the strong-arm tactics, they will be fired.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU SCOTT, YOU ARE DOING THE PUBLIC A GREAT SERVICE. I TO WAS HARRASED BY CAMCO, AND OUT OF DESPERATION I E-MAILED YOU AND TRUE TO YOUR WORD YOU HELPED ME AND I WAS ABLE TO GET RID OF THIS SCUM COMPANY.TO ANYONE OUT THERE THAT IS BIENG TORMENTED BY THIS COMPANY PLEASE DO NOT SEND THEM A THIN DIME AND LISTEN TO WHAT SCOTT HAS TO SAY ..HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT ,ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU SCOTT FOR THE HELP.

I just received word from the troubleshooter here in Cincinnati that came to our house and did that interview about the settlement Camco has to pay. He did a report on it on the 25th. again. this time about them getting fined. I was ready to jump for joy. Finally those low-lifes are getting things done back to them. We were kinda worried about some kind of action against us when we went on television about them. But it sounds like they are concentrating on threatening you instead. Don't let them get by with telling you your family is in danger. That is ludicris. We have been thinking that we should have sued them when they first cussed my husband out on the phone but we just wanted them to go away,as they have. Keep us informed though on what is going on. you have my e-mail.still.

If you are being harrassed by camco please keep the complaints coming in especially to the FTC and the illinois attorney general. Remember, LEGITIMATE complaints only. Calling to collect is not a legitimate complaint unless you live in wisconsin. They cannot threaten a lawsuit, judgment, or garnishment. They cannot threaten to ruin your credit. They cannot call or write to you after you send a certified cease and desist letter. They cannot call your neighbors or relatives if they know where you live and then only once. They cannot collect on BKed debts. DO NOT pay them a dime or they will steal your bank account blind. Immediately close your bank account. they have been known many times to change check numbers in order to take out more money. If you get a call from riddle and associates or whitewing treat them the same way as you would camco. Riddle works for them and use the word attorney to scare people into paying. He is a powerless thug against a knowlegable consumer. Whitewing is their sister company. If you are dumb enough to pay camco they will sell the debt to whitewing who will badger you again. This message is for the camco officers who I know read this report. your company is the only one out there that knows my name, phone number, and address.

Recently I have been attacked in a variety of ways and I promise you that within 30 days I will know the person who did this and if it came from your office which I am pretty sure it did I will personally see to it that you and the scumbags that did this go to prison for a very long time.

I also personally guarentee a lawsuit so large your company will cease to exist. Keep in mind one of your scummy blooding sucking leeches also threatened my life and those of my wife and children and I have not forgotten your nonchalant answer and non caring answer. You people are evil thieves and your time will come to be judged.

Some people are starting to file fraud reports with the post office. Remember to do this only if you are positive you paid the debt or you are positive this debt was never yours. This holds especially true if they declined proof or threatened/blackmailed you into paying. Get those reports in and see my above post if you want personal free help. Remember I need no personal info. You may use an anonymous email address from hotmail or yahoo. I simply need your state, age of debt, type of debt, and threats made. Also, there is a class action lawsuit that covers all states and originates out of Michigan. There is another class action lawsuit that is possibly being started out of North Carolina.

Remember if they continue and you need to tape just say 'all calls may be recorded'. If you do not have one present then record the date and the time of the call. The one problem with handwriting is if you did go to court you do not have an exact copy of what you wrote which you would have if it was printed from a computer. If they continue to call then contact me through one of my main postings and I will help you out with a letter, posting it below...

I did send it certified mail to the post office. Does it need to go to a physical address or is a PO Box sufficient? It just amazes me that these people can do this stuff.

I did send it certified mail to the post office. Does it need to go to a physical address or is a PO Box sufficient? It just amazes me that these people can do this stuff.

If not they will deny receiving it.

Scott, I sent a cease and desist letter before I read this post, but I hand wrote it and signed it. Are they going to be able to use that against me?? Now I am really scared. They were so nasty in the first place. They called me about something from 1986.

Here is a little bit of how camco trains. This is word for word from a camco manager. I would bet some of this sounds familiar.
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I was trained to break the FDCPA by Mario Bianchi. In my interview he told me, this is how you collect these accounts because they are so old. "Tell them you will put a block on their credit and notify all of their creditors to shut down credit lines until our debt is paid. The debt was not on your credit for a full seven years so we can place it back on there as the creditor of the account now."

If a debtor insisted the account was not theres Mario taught us how to go on a skip trace site called Accurint and look up the open date on the debt and then look up the address they were living at on accurint at the time the debt originally charged off and then say. "Were you living at such and such address at the time this debt went delinquent?" The debtor would then say, "Yeah I was." Then at that point we would do a person search of everyone at that address and find a man or woman with that same name around the debtors age and tell the debtor, "Do you know a James Smith?" The debtor would always say, "Yes that's my ex husband or my father or whatever." Then we pull it all together for the debtor and say, "Well, it looks like this account was opened up on Lake Street (Lake Street the prior address the debtor was at when the account went delinquent.) and it went delinquent in 1992 at this Pryer Street address and we were receiving payments in your name and the name of James Smith. It looks like he opened this account without your knowledge but because the two of you were married at the time you can't file fraud." The rest of the talk-off I was taught goes like this:

Debtor: I have to be able to do something. Can't I get statements, validation or file fraud?

Collector: You can't get any kind of documentation on this account because 3 years after a debt goes delinquent if this was not filed under fraud or bankruptcty by law the original creditor and Camco does not have to provide you with any statements or any information because you had three years to do that. The debt is purged off there system. Besides that anything paid on for over 12 months is not considered a fraud because someone who is going to commit ligitimate fraud against you would not continue to pay an account for that long.

Debtor: What do I do then?

Collector: The only thing you can do is wait until a block is issued on your credit electroniclly today or you can take the settlement we are offering. Now we can do a balance transfer and have your credit card company send us a direct check or put the funds in your checking account and we'll do a check by phone.

Debtor: What's a block?

Collector: A block is when we notify all of your creditors by phone mail and fax and have them shut down your credit lines until you pay us back. Because we are not a collection agency, we are an acqusitions firm goverened by the federal goverment and we are the largest acqusition firm in the country out of 3 so we are the only ones alotted by the goverment to issue these blocks on the credit.

At this point the debtor would pay.

Mario had me type up all of this so we could secretly pass it out to collectors. I ened up giving a copy to a friend until we got it smoothed out and told him not to give copys out but he gave copies to the whole office so when Mario went back to IL. the new general manager wanted me and her to give out talk off class's to the new collectors and we did using the outline I just gave you. This is what I did to keep my job.

Let your friends, neightbors, co-workers, ect know about this company. If you have been badly abused call your TV station. More and more I am hearing from people who got their camco story on the news and thousands of other people watched them and realized what a scam this is. File your LEGITIMATE complaints.