Category Archives: Debt Settlement Related

Debt Settlement Companies Suffer from Premature Representation: First, I’d like to say thank you to Steve Rhode for the invitation to make a guest post. Steve, I greatly appreciate you opening up your venue. Rather than focusing on what Debt Relief A La Carte offers, I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss why. It will be much more meaningful for all. [...]
Legal Helpers Debt Resolution Consumers Appear in TV News Story: The following television interview about Legal Helpers Debt Resolution aired in St. Louis recently and it presented a couple of consumers that felt they had been left in a worse spot after using the services of Legal Helpers Debt Resolution. LHDR claims unhappy consumers represent a small fraction of their total clients. The story contains [...]
Nova Scotia, Canada Debt Settlement Protection Act: Nova Scotia has introduced the Debt Settlement Protection Act and it had the first reading on April 26, 2012. The act states: Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as the Debt Settlement Protection Act. 2 In this Act, (a) “agent” means a person employed, appointed [...]
Debt Relief Options – What In The World is Going On?: A couple of loyal readers sent me in tips about a recent press release by Debt Relief Options (DebtReliefOptions.com) out of Frisco, Texas. Both readers wanted to point out the $100,000 sweepstakes Debt Relief Options was offering and one made the point Debt Relief Options appears to not be registered to do business in Texas, [...]
Alan Thicke Pushing Cambridge Life Solutions in Canada With Criticism: A reader sent in yet another news video critical of Cambridge Life Solutions and spokesperson Alan Thicke “That’s forcing some consumers into the welcoming arms of firms promising to magically wipe away their debt. Chances are you’ve seen or heard Canadian actor Alan Thicke, delivering an energetic sales pitch encouraging those facing debt problems to [...]
Canadians Warned Yet Again About Cambridge Life Solutions: A reader sent in the following news video about Cambridge Life Solutions, an advanced fee debt settlement company in Canada. The station interviews the owner of Cambridge Life Solutions, George Fortune, and inserts the over the shoulder perp shot for dramatic impact. The news package includes bankruptcy trustees as well who speak out about the [...]
Bank of America Credit Card Debt Settlement Advice and Instructions: If you’re facing a legitimate financial hardship and can’t make the minimum payments on your Bank of America (or FIA Card Services) credit card account then one potential solution is to negotiate a lump-sum settlement for less the balance owed. If you’re unfamiliar with debt settlement, you’re probably wondering how someone who can’t make their [...]
Consumer Affairs Law Center and Consumer Affairs Processing Center Take Over Legal Helpers Debt Resolution Account: Yesterday I wrote about a consumer that contacted me and said Legal Helpers Debt Resolution contacted them after terminating all the LHDR affiliates and told her LHDR would be transiting their account to Consumer Affairs Law Center. I asked the consumer to send me the form to look at and after reviewing it I’m entirely [...]
Legal Helpers Debt Resolution Account Being Sent to Consumer Affairs Law Center: A reader has just let me know that their account with Legal Helpers Debt Resolution is being sent to Consumer Affairs Law Center. This is intriguing considering the mass termination of affiliates on March 30, 2012 from Legal Helpers Debt Resolution. If the notification is true, it appears Legal Helpers is taking client accounts and [...]
Legal Helpers Debt Resolution Poked in MN Article: Legal Helpers Debt Resolution was the focus of a recent Minnesota newspaper article. According to the Star Tribune article, Legal Helpers Debt Resolution “did little for $10,000.” The North Mankato couple turned to Legal Helpers Debt Resolution, which agreed to negotiate with creditors to lower their debts. Over 14 months, they say, they paid the [...]
Canadians Warned About Cambridge Life Solutions: The Canadian publication Maclean’s has recently published a scathing article on the debt settlement company Cambridge Life Solutions. But the underlying story here is how Cambridge Life Solutions just shifted a business model now prohibited in the United States to push on unsuspecting fun loving Canadians. But the model Cambridge Life uses is a controversial [...]
Who is All State National?: A reader just posted the following comment. Alliance 8 /Freedom Fidelity management has now morphed into Allstate National. How the state of California permits these people to continue scamming honest folk out of their hard earned money is beyond me. STAY AWAY and for those victims continue to write and inform the public about these [...]
United Employee Benefits Group Still Sending Debt Relief Unsolicited Faxes: A tipster just sent in this copy of an unsolicited fax they received. It certainly appears to be from United Employee Benefits Group, uebg.org, who has been sending these for a while now. In fact the State of California hit them with a cease & desist order before of similar faxes. – Source This fax [...]
Hero Reader Sends in More Evidence of B.S. 2010 U.S. Stimulus Plan: A reader and tipster just sent me this ridiculous example of a deceptive debt relief mailer. I’ve previously published examples of the 2010 U.S. Stimulus Plan mailer that has been sent out but what makes this so ridiculous is that the same consumer gets the same mailer about a week apart, both proclaiming this is [...]
Herschel Bentley’s Debt Elimination Advisory Promotional Video Says What!: A reader forwarded me a link to a video that promoted a service called “Herschel Bentley’s Debt Elimination Advisory” that promotes debt settlement. I get it, it’s a marketing approach to sell the $497 product. – Source I am uncertain who the guy in the video is. The video makes some interesting odd claims about [...]