Date Received: 2018-12-21T00:00:00.000 Product: Federal student loan servicing Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer Consumer Consent Provided to Share Complaint: Consent provided Consumer Complaint: I have been paying AFBC since XX/XX/XXXXto help with my student loans. I paid {$49.00} every month and I thought my loan would be forgiven after I paid so much …
Brandon Frere who is the honcho behind American Financial Benefits Center and a subject of the action by the Federal Strade Commission against the student loan debt relief companies, has won a victory of sorts. Good News I received an alert that the court has awarded him a nine-month stay in the proceedings against him …
Date Received: 2018-11-14T00:00:00.000 Product: Federal student loan servicing Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer Consumer Consent Provided to Share Complaint: Consent provided Consumer Complaint: I went through Ameritech Financial to pay off my student loans and to receive a debt forgiveness. They have been taking a XXXX $ payment each month from my checking …
Date Received: 2018-10-26T00:00:00.000 Product: Private student loan Issue: Dealing with your lender or servicer Consumer Consent Provided to Share Complaint: Consent provided Consumer Complaint: I signed on with Ameritech Financial in XX/XX/XXXX with understanding that they were taking over my student loans through XXXX, into the Graduated Student Loan Forgiveness Program, which would allow me …
Student loan assistance company executive Brandon Frere, 41, was arrested and faces a maximum prison term of 20 years in jail. An FBI Special Agent has stated in unsealed documents that Frere, the honcho of American Financial Benefits Center, a student loan assistance company sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was arrested just prior …
Date Received: 2018-07-03T00:00:00 Product: Debt settlement Issue: Fraud or scam Consumer Consent Provided to Share Complaint: Consent provided Consumer Complaint: I have attempted to contact Ameritech regarding the payments I have been submitting to them monthly in the amount of {$99.00}. I also paid them document fees that were over {$1200.00}. I have been paying …
Date Received: 2018-06-14T00:00:00 Product: Debt settlement Issue: Confusing or missing disclosures Consumer Consent Provided to Share Complaint: Consent provided Consumer Complaint: I received a phone call from a telemarketer stating that they were able to help me with my student loans. Because I have been trying to get rid of them I willingly listened and …
Question: Dear Steve, Are you familiar with Ameritech? I can’t seem to get an answer from anyone there as to the status of things in general. My daughter has paperwork with them and we I don’t know to assess the situation. No one seems to think what I saw on the internet with the FTC …
I’ve been helping people with debt advice or assistance since 1994 but this marketing just revealed in public filings is creepy as hell. If I had not seen the images myself I would not have believed it. This material was made public in the suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission against American Financial Benefits …
Under the heading of “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” I was reading a recent FTC filing in the case involving American Financial Benefits Center. An FTC investigator made a call to an AFBC sales agent named Hollywood. The sales representative asks the undercover investigator about how big her family is. HOLLYWOOD: Three, so is …