This list may be updated periodically, but here are the Southern California debt collection firms from which we’re seeing the most frequent alleged abuses of credit reporting or fair debt collection laws:

1. Wolpoff & Abramson–specializes in using “strong-arm” tactics to collect very old and invalid debts.

2. Great Seneca Financial Corp.–actually owned by Wolpoff & Abramson, which is a law firm. Great Seneca is not a law firm but is a collection agency. Also specializes in “strong-arm” tactics to collect really weak and old debts.

3. Arrow Financial: we’ve seen them in several instances of bad credit reporting practices. Very sloppy debt collection agency.

4. NCO Financial Services: we’ve seen several instances of bad credit reporting practices.

5. Asset Acceptance Corp.: specializes in trying to collect really pathetic debt; will resort to “strong-arm” tactics and bad credit reporting practices.

6. V.I.P Adjustment Bureau, Inc.: real shysters here. V.I.P. is owned by Richard Lowell Dehart and Jay Steven Bernstein, who formerly ran Lake Valley Retrievals, Inc., another debt collector. Good ‘ol Richy & Jay went out of business with Lake Valley and pleaded poverty in the courts until they whined their way out of Lake Valley’s considerable obligations to consumers, investors and even the government. They then bankrupted Lake Valley and promptly opened V.I.P., which is no better. Don’t trust these guys.

I hope this short article has been of assistance to you. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
 

Copyright 2007 by Robert F. Brennan of Brennan, Wiener & Associates. For more information, contact www.SoCalDebtCollectionAbuse.com or send an email to info@brennanlaw.com.