Allied Interstate ripoff, rude, fraudulent attempts at debt collection, unprofessional, unbelievable Columbus Ohio

For the past several years Allied Interstate has tried to bully us into paying a debt which is not ours and belongs to someone else's social security. It started with letters in the mail once a year and a phone call once a year, and each time we'd ask what social they have they would read back someone else's. We knew it wasn't us and they in fact had the wrong name.

Finally I contacted them trying to resolve this. They told me it was for a MasterCard I never had, for over $1300 and they could not provide me with an account #, when it was opened or closed, or what social security number was on the card. Basically they couldn't prove it was mine. I asked them calmly how to resolve this and they said to contact Norwest bank which had been bought out by Wells Fargo. The only way Wells Fargo could look it up was with our social security, which we refuse to give out, or the account number which Allied refuses to give us.

So we changed to an unlisted number. 3 weeks later we got a NASTY letter from them, threatening us with prosecution and reporting us to the credit bureaus. Well, we check our credit regulary and have never seen any fraudulent accounts and are sure they have the wrong person.

I contacted them one more time in attempt to get the social security they thought was ours or the account number so I could once again contact Wells Fargo. They proceeded to play games trying to get US to tell them our social security, went as far as saying derogatory comments about me and my fiance. I was apalled at how unprofessional they were and how quick they were to attack. We finally hung up on them, then they called us back taunting us that now they had our new number (actually called from a cell phone, not new home phone). I could not believe the audacity.

Since I have sent them a very funny threatening letter, mimicing the one they sent to me earlier, had it notarized and contacted both our state's attorney general and state consumer protection sending them both copies of my letter and copies of previous lawsuits pursued by other states against Allied Interstate. I plan to contact anyone willing to listen to try and put these assholes under and I recommend you all do the same.

Annie
Gaylordsville, Connecticut
U.S.A.