Viking Collections lied, threatened and hung up on me, ripoff Phoenix Arizona

Good lord - learn to spell and use punctuation
Guess the reason you work for this bottom feeder collection agency is because you are either to stupid or to ignorant to get a real job
Send these clowns a cease communications letter via certified mail with return receipt requested
Do not answer the phone - let the machine or voice mail get it
Make a record of all calls - My attorney told me to take pictures of my caller id
Time to stop the bottom feeders
Thanks Robert for good advice

""if you feel like we treated you like a loser that's because we think your a loser and we treat all you accordingly. So go find a really high building and go skydiving but leave the parachute behind. Oh and one more thing for you people who want to say were the losers cause we do collections and we must not make very much money. I make a whole bunch of money so don't worry about that""

So typical of a debt collector employee.

Here's a hot flash for you. MISTAKES happen! Data processing folks mistype SSNs, address numbers, account numbers and the like. Then there is the sloppy skip tracing, probably performed by someone as you.

I returned to the US in March of 1993 (after living in Germany since 1981.) Since that time I have had debt collectors harass me for the following debts below that were NOT mine. Talking to the debt collectors accomplished NOTHING but cause the telephone calls to increase in frequency.

1. SBC bill for paging service to a KM Enterprises in Rhode Island. I have never lived in RI.

2. Past due electric bill for someone in Syracuse, NY with a similar name as I (middle initial was different.)

3. Bill for back surgery at a local hospital-I have never had back surgery.

Now, Mr. Conviviality, here's how each was resolved:

1. On the telephone, I threatened Vital Recovery Services with prosecution through the Georgia Attorney General's Office when they refused to identify the creditor. I then wrote a letter to Sherman Acquisitions and that was the end of it-they responded with a written apology. Seems that 2 digits of the SSN were transposed and PRESTO, the debt became mine.

2. I had to call the NY State Police (to make a fraud and harassment complaint) and the investigating Sergeant cleared the matter up and told me what happened. (the guy in Syracuse was getting divorced and stopped paying the electric bill.) This was sloppy skip tracing.

3. I wrote a letter to the hospital (creditor) demanding an explanation. I received an apology and their response indicated that the patient ID number was incorrect (I did have hernia surgery at that hospital 3 years PRIOR to this back surgery-my insurance paid for my hernia surgery.) This was a data entry error.

Think twice before you call everyone a "whiner."

It amuses me how you're suddenly responding to RORs about your firm that are well over a year old. Don't you have some skip tracing or collection calls to make?

I have to wonder if your boss is aware of the negative image your nasty remarks are presenting to the public on the internet. Most corporations have a strick policy about employees making public remarks about the firm. Such public communications are usually restricted to someone in the PR or communications department and violating such a corporate policy may result in termination of the violator's employment.

First let me say I am a employee at Viking collections in AZ and I want to respond to all these reports these whiners have wrote on here. First of all anytime you get information look at the source its coming from. In this case these people are all losers that are in collections and whining cause they didn't like how the bill collector treated them. Well here's an idea Einstein...pay your bills when your suppose to and you wont have to deal with bill collectors. Before an account even gets to our office you have to ignore the original creditor for 6months without any kind of payment. So for everyone on here with the "oh poor me" attitude get over it and maybe own up to your responsibilities and then you wont ever be in collections. Also were not customer service...you had your chance with customer service and you blew them off for 6 months so we don't need to kiss your a*s and rub your belly so your happy with the call. Your a loser and sometimes you need to be reminded of that. And don't blame the economy for you defaulted on your loan or credit card because were all in the same economy but there are still people that are responsible and pay their bills like they agreed to. If you don't make enough money then get a second job. Maybe if you took the time you sat on your a*s and cried about how bad life is and got another job you wouldn't be so broke. I live in the same economy as you all and i still pay every single won of my bills. Now why can I do it and you cant? Cause I'm not a loser and I own up to what I agreed to and if it came to where I couldn't support my family I would do something about it instead of getting on a website and complaining. So in conclusion if you don't want to deal with a bill collector then pay your bills..if you cant pay your bills then do something about that situation. But there are always going to be you whiners that would rather get on a website and cry so everyone knows your not happy about how you were treated. Well my advice to you is this...if you feel like we treated you like a loser that's because we think your a loser and we treat all you accordingly. So go find a really high building and go skydiving but leave the parachute behind. Oh and one more thing for you people who want to say were the losers cause we do collections and we must not make very much money. I make a whole bunch of money so don't worry about that. Actually it would make you sick how much we make cause the world is full of belly rubbing whining babies and the job security is wonderful. And your the one getting collection calls cause you cant pay your bills. I can pay mine..so who is the loser here? Yes that's correct its you.

You need to stop payment on that check if you can.
Then, you need to send them a certified letter demading that they verify this debt to you in writing, showing proof that it is yours, and, how much the original debt is for.

They have to verify the debt in writing. Why don't you call Capital One and pay them off directly? No collection agency can add interest to a debt. It is illegal. You need to settle this debt with Capital One, not Viking.

You need to stop payment on that check if you can.
Then, you need to send them a certified letter demading that they verify this debt to you in writing, showing proof that it is yours, and, how much the original debt is for.

They have to verify the debt in writing. Why don't you call Capital One and pay them off directly? No collection agency can add interest to a debt. It is illegal. You need to settle this debt with Capital One, not Viking.

You need to stop payment on that check if you can.
Then, you need to send them a certified letter demading that they verify this debt to you in writing, showing proof that it is yours, and, how much the original debt is for.

They have to verify the debt in writing. Why don't you call Capital One and pay them off directly? No collection agency can add interest to a debt. It is illegal. You need to settle this debt with Capital One, not Viking.

You need to stop payment on that check if you can.
Then, you need to send them a certified letter demading that they verify this debt to you in writing, showing proof that it is yours, and, how much the original debt is for.

They have to verify the debt in writing. Why don't you call Capital One and pay them off directly? No collection agency can add interest to a debt. It is illegal. You need to settle this debt with Capital One, not Viking.

When I had a problem with these yo-yo's -- harassing phone calls from some wuss named Justin over a debt I didn't owe in the first place, I did a little background on Viking Southwest. They have a big ad for collectors to work for them, promising them big commissions from deadbeats who defaulted on their credit cards (talk about profiling people). To them, you're nothing more than a commission; they're not really professional bill collectors whose job is to first establish the validity of the debt and then see what they can work out with you.

They can't record calls without your consent (or, if they do, the recordings cannot be used as evidence against you), they can't charge you interest, and they can't rescind an offer once you've agreed (they can rescind if you tell them you'll get back to them).

This guy made a number of threats that were violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. If it were me, I'd simply report them to the Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov. What happens is that the FTC is overburdened with sour grapes complaints from people who really did default on legitimate debts and are mad because someone pursued them for it. This makes it hard for people with legitimate complaints about federal violations to get through. But if they get enough complaints about one agency, they'll come down on them. That's why everyone who's had a run in with the wimpoids at Viking should file formal complaints.