So I had one Account in Collections for 500.00$ from an old card called Continental Finance that went to RPM and MainStreet Acquisitions. Man these people are Ruthless. Needless to say I settled the Account for 70% of what I owed. I had been making payments to them 50.00$/Month when the Original balance was 784.00. Finally I had enough Money to pay the account in full. RPM reported like clock work on my Credit Report. Now I need to wait for them to report my Settled-in-Full. Does anyone have an idea of how many points I should go up by? Right now Im sitting at 610 FICO for TU and 636 FICO for Equifax. TU has a lot of inquiries. Thanks for your help guys!
Hi all I was wondering if anyone has had any success with this CA. The orignal creditor was Continental Finance and it was charged off in 2007. The CA is Credit Solutions Corp. I tried to DV but they did a hard pull on my TU report in JAN 09 since then I did nothing because I wanted the inquiry to fall off in JAN. After the DV in 09 I did try to send a PFD with no success, All they did was update report, so I was scared to do anything else. its not due to fall off untill 2013 but I was looking for suggestions I would really like it off my EQ report because its my only CA left I need removed. Any advice would be helpful, Thanks
This is a little long and I apologize
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On Friday I received a call to my cell phone regarding my husband (Who is currently on deployment ) When I answered the woman said:
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“This is the legal department I will now transfer you to a rep regarding your case”
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Curious as to what she was talking about I was put through to a “Scott Stone” he then proceeded to tell me that legal action was going to be taken against my husband regarding an account from 2006 that was a charge off from Continental Fiance/First Bank of Delaware. He said they wanted to know if anyone would be home to serve the papers.
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As he was talking I pulled up my husbands report through our bank monitoring service and was able to review all 3 reports and the only thing listed regarding this debt was the actual charge off for $505 from the card company. There was nothing else regarding this debt and no inquirers from any companies except for those we authorized.
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I asked him what the name of his company was 3 times before he finally told me WC Group. I told him that I did not hold power of attorney (a lie I know but I didn’t want to deal with him over the phone as that is a no-no and something wasn’t right) And never to call my phone again he is more than welcome to send correspondence. He continued to tell me the balance was $1937.28 and that they would knock it down to $1391.46 and break it into 5 payments and stop all court proceedings.
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I said good day and hung up.
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I started with the our counties court clerk for our home state in IL to see if there were any pending cases I was told no so I then checked the county and state in which we are stationed in and they said nothing had been filed and there is also nothing pending.
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I then called Continental Finance and they gave me the number of who was handling the charge off. That number brought me to another and finally another (I didn’t call the last company yet)
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I began researching the name and it was hard to find anything so I tried the phone number and came up with pages of people saying these people were trying to scam. Most of them were from 1800 notes but everyone was saying the same thing. They call someone from the “legal” department puts them through and same story as I have up there.
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Today I did receive a letter from “Scott Stone” The name of the company Says
WC GROUP
27315 Jefferson Ave Ste J-109
Temecula CA 92590
866-333-4149
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On the letter he does have the correct account number for First Bank Of Delaware and the amounts he told me over the phone. It says that the payment plan needs to begin by Aug 31st or they would stop the “hold” that they have on serving the papers.
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What should be my next step? Where should I go with this? Should I continue to call and see who owns the account when nothing is listed on his credit report? I am working on paying a few things off and was starting with the smaller ones and got them removed as well with PFD. Do I DV this Scott Stone person or send a PFD to Continental even though it is a charge off and see what they will do, if anything?
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I know by law a soldier can not be served with court papers at their home and all proceedings have to be placed on hold until the soldier can be present. But as I said I have not been able to find anything pending against him and they did say they were ready to serve the papers.
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Any help would be appreciated.
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*****I can not find a website or anything on these people and the email listed on this paper is [email protected]
What kind of email is that? I wish I could find more information on this company.
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So far this is my journey:
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-After several GW I decided to let my old Capital One charge off to age, it’s from 2005 so I guess it’s not hurting my score THAT much.
- CMI (2 paid collections, 1 balance of 178 havent send PFD, will do when funds are available)
- CCA sent DV, they validated, sending PFDsbut they won’t budge
- Continental Credit (2 personal loans paid in full in time, 1 charge off of 89 dlls, they just won’t PFD, I have sent like 4 PFD they won’t accept)
-NCAÂ sent DV back in November, deleted from 3Â CRAs
- Enhanced Recovery sent DV back in November, deleted from 3 CRAs
- CCS collecting 189 for Progressive, paid directly to Progressive, they reactivated my policy and CCS deleted from all CRAs
 Now the most troublesome:
- Trident Asset Mgmt: Sent DV, waited 45 days, sent DV again, waited 45 days, after no response, disputed with 3 CRAs, they all came back “validated” WTF???
- Certegy sent DV 30 days ago, will wait to follow through…
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Any advices on what to do with the so called “validation” from CRAs? I tried filling a complaint with the BBB but they responded a few days later saying “That they regret to informe me that the BBB wont be able to help me cause my complain falls out the BBB Scope”
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Any advice on what should I do next???
This is a weird situation:
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My account with Continental Finance was CO in 2008. I ended up disputing the account with the CA (didn’t know what it was at the time) and it was removed. However, the account with Continental still remains on my CR. How would I go about getting that removed?
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Thx!
I got a letter from First National Collection Bureau Inc with no real information as follows
Creditor: Riverwalk Holdings (Another JDB?)
Original Creditor : First Bank Deleware (Credit Card?)
Acct: XXXX Looks like their own brand of acct#
Total 833.35
This letter is to advise you that your delinquent account has been assigned to our office for collection by the above mentioned client.
Unless you notify in 30 days speech, 30 days to validate we will assume it is valid. If you request within 30 days to validate we will send you verification of the debt or a copy of the judgement, etc… Also offers in light to help your financial situation, 6 payments of 83.34 with their own little coupon book.Â
Anyhow, I currently have a account with FBD with their Continental Finance M/C in good standing since 12/08, but did have one closed back in the day. They appear as on my USAA Credit Monitoring from 2/9 as
TransUnion                                Experian                                               Equifax
 FirstBkDE/CF                            First BK of DE/Contine                           First Bank of Delawa
Account XXXXÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â XXXXÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â XXXX
Revolving Account                     Credit Card Revolving Terms                 Revolving or Option
0.00 Balance                             Blank Balance                                        0.00 Balance
0.00 Balance Due                      Blank Past Due                                      Blank Past Due
Date Open 1/5/2007                1/1/2007                                               1/1/2007
Charged off as Bad Debt           Account transfered by Another Office    Bad debt & placed for collection & skip
527.00 High Balance                  Blank High Balance                               1,527.00High Balance                       Â
300.00 Limit                               300.00 Limit                                          Blank Limit
Purchased By another Lender    Transferred by another lender or         Account Transfered/Sold Charged Off
                                                  claim purchaseÂ
Anyhow, I dont know what to do, no CA has attempted to collect that I know and none show off my report until I got this letter. When I look at my report I pulled from Experian on 12/09 it does not have a “Status Details” to give me a DOFD, TU on the other hand has “Estimated time this will be removed 2/2014.  To be honest I thought this was the card I noticed the fees were something I did not want to commit to and called to cancel which pretty much leaves me no paper work to even fight it. Looking at the report for EX also, instead of the blank high balance that one shows 1527 as well. How does a 300 credit limit become 1527.00 or even 833.35 this CA is telling me? Oh I am so pissed, will this CA now report soon on my CR as another hit? Grrrr
We never had an account with Continental Finance. Yet its showing up on my husband’s credit. For a total around 500 bucks.
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I sent a standard DV letter because I thought they were a collection agency. I included our current address, the account number on my husband’s credit report, the amount they say we owe, etc.
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They sent back a letter stating they were not required to tell us when he was late, how much he was late for, or if we ever had an account with them. and if we culd not provide 3 proofs of address, a copy of my husband’s credit report, and the exact account number and payment history they would not send us any information.
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Um, we want the payment history from them. This is ridiculous. They also said they are not required to stop reporting on his credit without validation because they are not a collection agency. So anyone can report anything they very well please if they are not a collection agency??