NWernBrewer
Well-Known Member
Just received another phone call from a collection company who is collecting money on an unsolicited magazine subscription that got our information (including acct info and means to access the acct) from the bank we went through.
PSA - 1st off - there is an opt-out or sharing of your personal information with many mainstream banks - specifically through US Bank Corp. They will share your personal information to the extent of giving your acct number and means of drawing through it to various companies that will pay.
The magazine subscription that was refused then charged to our acct and challenged by SWMBO was through a company called US Magazine Provider. The collection company that they deal with is LBA (Luebke Baker and Associates out of Peoria, IL.) DO NOT talk with them and call your bank if you are contacted by them. It is 3 years after USMP called offering a subscription package that was refused and we started receiving calls from LBA again recently.
The last call was 10-15 min ago and we will be contacting a lawyer for advice - I just wanted to warn anybody about this and also ask a question.
Have any of you dealt with something similar or exactly like this before and did you get result? WWWWW&H - it isn't much, a couple of hundred, but the easy option is paying for this out of the brewing fund.
Sorry about the long post and hopefully we can get this taken care of without a credit blemish (although I know it will cost more then just paying the da*n thing.)
PSA - 1st off - there is an opt-out or sharing of your personal information with many mainstream banks - specifically through US Bank Corp. They will share your personal information to the extent of giving your acct number and means of drawing through it to various companies that will pay.
The magazine subscription that was refused then charged to our acct and challenged by SWMBO was through a company called US Magazine Provider. The collection company that they deal with is LBA (Luebke Baker and Associates out of Peoria, IL.) DO NOT talk with them and call your bank if you are contacted by them. It is 3 years after USMP called offering a subscription package that was refused and we started receiving calls from LBA again recently.
The last call was 10-15 min ago and we will be contacting a lawyer for advice - I just wanted to warn anybody about this and also ask a question.
Have any of you dealt with something similar or exactly like this before and did you get result? WWWWW&H - it isn't much, a couple of hundred, but the easy option is paying for this out of the brewing fund.
Sorry about the long post and hopefully we can get this taken care of without a credit blemish (although I know it will cost more then just paying the da*n thing.)