CA (Collections Agency) posted the sold account on my report

I just pulled my report and saw that the CA (Collections Agency) posted the sold account on my report. Is it legal for the original debtor, AND the collections agency post the same debt on my account? Can I get one or the other removed? AND, can they repost it again and again, even if I dont contest it? I heard that after 7 years after the "ORIGINAL" account was posted, that it has to be removed and the CA cant repost it over and over and over.... Please shed a light on this subject via email, and on your site... if I overlooked it on your site, I apologize
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i have a great groups for legality about collections
send this msg herehttp://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/credit-repair/

i think you have to have a yahoo account
emails i get, say send questions herecredit-repair@yahoogroups.com say bo sent you for legal advice what i would say is no it is not legal

how to stop it i do not know other than disputing, negotiation and paying each off
and debt validation i do know that if it is a collection
AND you do pay

after about 3 - 6 months dispute it and it will probably fall off

Am I beyond the statue of limitations on a credit card?

I was just wondering how do I figure out if I am beyond the statue of limitations on a credit card? Or if credit cards even apply? On my credit report it states that my credit card became 30 days overdue in April/2004, meaning the last payment that I sent in was March of 2004. Is it safe to assume the statue of limitations has exceeded?
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no
not sure if statute of limitations is the right term but 7 years is the magic credit goes away number.
7 years from date of last activity. DLA DOLA
so that would put you at April 2011
Watch out for collections on unpaid credit cards, if the card was not paid in full.
2004 does put you 2 years past today which means the lates have relatively little weight on your credit score. Make sure you have good open and rated credit now with no lates the last 24 months.
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Thanks. The card is already in collections and they are threatening to sue. It is the only thing on my credit report so I will call and see if I can get a settlement for less than what they say I owe.

Also, I read on your website that I should ask for it to be deleted from my report after I pay it, is that correct?
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you always should ask, but not expect, to get something removed if you pay in full, unless, it is a second party or duplicate account on your credit report.

Collections? are collection threatening suit or whats going on here.
If the original credit card, charged you off, then sold this account, for pennies on the dollar a collections company should not even be able to put the collection on your credit report or threaten to sue.

the original credit card can sue and report bad.

this is why the debt validation form is so needed. Make sure any second party collection has legal cause and documentation for suit.
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I received a letter from Gordon & Wong Law Group PC stating that there is a pending legal action in Superior Court and I have 30 days to respond. On my credit report it says that the account was sold to another lender.

Should I send in the debt validation form?
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you need to talk to a lawyer.
but yes you need to know what they know if you can

Court odered judgment. Collections from canada harrassing

A friend of mine is a Katrina survivor and now lives in California. She is being hounded by a guy who took over a judgment in 2004 that was issued in the courts in New Orleans. He was contacting all the people he could find on her website that were connected to her and sending them faxes and emails and calling them, telling them that he was collecting a judgment that she owes and asking if they could provide any information. He reached me and told me that he was going to take all the money that we make together on a venture we are working on that was posted on our website.
I had her send him a debt validation letter. He responded saying that he is not a third party bill collector. He sent her the judgment that shows that the original creditor had the judgment assigned to him in 2004 and he is now the judgment creditor. He said he is not bound by the Fair Debt Creditors Act.
We put in the letter requesting that he cease and desist in calling other person related to her and that she would file a complaint with the AG and file suit against him he continued to do so.
His address is in Vancouver Canada. Does he have jurisdiction on this judgment that’s from the New Orleans court when he lives in Canada and she is living in California?
I know she needs an attorney but she can’t afford one – she is trying to work that out.
What she wants is for him to stop contacting third parties and she wants to know her rights. She has some property in New Orleans. The judgment is only $2,000. He wanted her to pay $700 today and he would call it quits but she doesn’t have them money. And, how would she know he would go away if she paid it. He wanted her to wire it to her.
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I am not sure about this at all.
sounds fishy, but court ordered judgments are different than credit related issues
i think people can go to jail over this stuff.

I would also think that the court or person who sued would be the only person that could hurt you.

I do believe that a FCRA probably does not work with judgments. But most if not all are bound to not harras. Seems like if he was real he would threaten jail.

I would say contact the court if you intend to pay. then the state atorney general
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Thanks very much. She got an attorney involved and the matter is being settled amicably with a settlement agreement for a very low amount!!

Remove a credit inquiriy. Bankruptcy or Credit Counseling

is there any way I can get a Credit Inquiry that I did not authorize, removed from my credit report? The on-line dispute won’t allow me to dispute it and the phone for Experian (your right!) is useless… See following events:
I’ve been working on consolidating my credit cards and I applied with my bank, Wells Fargo. I had specified very clearly that I want a Dept Consolidation loan. They pulled my report, said they could not give me a consolidation loan based on my dept-to-income ratio, but did want to “sell me” a small additional credit line instead.
Then they (a person on the phone at my branch) said I should call their (Wells Fargo) financial department to see if they could help. I assumed that this was a division of WF. I was given the phone number to call. I talk to a person there and was told that they could review my credit report and see what they could do. They did Not ask me if they could pull another report, so I assumed that they had the same data base as my bank’s branch.
After reviewing my info and calling me back, they also told me they could not do a consolidation loan and they also want to “sell me” a small credit card (not problem with that!). I stated for the third time that I was Only want the consolidation loan and said I didn’t want an additional account.
I use “Credit Expert” for 3-in-1 reports. I review my reports often. I decide to pull a report and saw that I had 2 credit inquires for the incidences listed above!!!
One from Wells Fargo Bank
One from Well Fargo Finance
Both on the same day! I called Wells Fargo Finance (second place I talked to) and told they I did not give permission to put my report and that I was not told they would. And I assumed that they could review the info pulled from the bank. They said they always pull a report and that they are not a division of the Wells Fargo bank!!!. They actually called me 3 more times trying to influence me to get the additional card! It sounded like the same card as my branch. This was after I was mad about their actions.
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they cannot review your credit without putting on inquiry on it
inquiries are frivolous pursuit for better credit.
let that go
pay down debt

what they did is sort of a normal chain of events
with local and done businesss with them before accounts

you ask them to review your credit
they pull an old app
inquire
then call you back with what they think they can do

ive done it hundreds of times here in
Tullahoma tn with customers who want to know what they can do with out going in
if you don't walk in
how do you think they are goind to review your credit
unless they pull a report with info from the past.

let it go

sounds to me like you could look for a credit and budget counselor
not another loan
try that. i think it will help you the most
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Thanks for your help. I am already set to see a counselor.
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thats the best bet
ask them everything you have asked me

sorry about the inquiries and i can see why you are angry
it just doesn't seem right i know

in the end inquiries do not really hurt score

your debt to income ration has to stay below 45%
if you are pushing that and it sounds like you are

a counselor will be of some help
remember they are salemen too

to listen and go home and think
talk to your firend

do not do anything right then
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Remove a paid judgment on my credit report. Who reports judgments?

I checked my credit report and on one of the credit reporting agency's it shows a judgment was put on my report. Do you know who reports this on my credit? The reason I am asking is due to this judgment was satisfied before the 30 day deadline and I am concerned that the plaintiff, not the courts, reported this. It is reported as satisfied, but not sure how or why it would be reported on my credit.
When somebody is placing something on a consumer's report, do you know if they are required to provide my social security number or my driver's license number? My concern is that if the plaintiff reported this, I never provided her with my social or my d.l. number. nor was a contract of any sort signed providing the plaintiff with my information.
I have tried to find out this information from the credit agency, but have not had any luck getting a straight answer. If the plaintiff reported this and has my information, what can I do about it, as it would be pretty unnerving to know that she illegally got hold of my information. I really need some advice on this, as this small judgment ($479.00) that was paid and showing as satisfied on my report has hurt me when applying for credit. The plaintiff used to be a friend of mine and was very upset that she did not get the $4000.00 she was trying for and I worry that she may be trying to damage me by doing this...if she reported this and not the courts.
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courts report judgments
not random people
these are public records in court archives

you might try the debt validation form
if you know what court
if you don;t know
you can dispute the item with each affested bureau and an adress and phone must be provided

find the forms here

all debts have to be valid line of legal documents

I would say go on and remember. Court equals bad.
the goal here is noo lates on 3 - 4 open accounts.

everything reported bad
ie: judgments
more than 2 years old
pay and go on

these addresses and inquiries on my report are not mine. How do I get them off?

1. How do I remove incorrect home addresses from my credit report?
2. How do I remove inquiries from my credit report (those that affect my scores)?

some of those addresses are not mine, ever! and I don't have a clue as to where all the inquiries come from because I have only applied for credit twice in 2 years
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well you should dispute them
and say you think someone is fraudulently accessing your credit file
use the dispute form here
then add in a small letter explaining your position
might add a copy of your report and circle the errant entries
many credit reports list the phone numbers to every entry
at the bottom of the report
for
inquiries
public records
collections
credit accounts

If you have those i would call them
then send a letter validating the entry
u could use a debt validation letter but remake it to validate an inquiry

Legal debt validation follow up letter for a collection agency. My rights by law

Just an update I hope that's okay.
I looked up the actual FDCPA 801 (b) outlined in the debt validation letter. I decided to submit one last letter the collection agency outlining to them the actual documentation required under the act which I know now they cannot provide to me. I hope this letter will help to avoid involving any other agencies. I feel its worth a shot.
A lawyer actually wrote this letter and I found it on the web.
I am submitting a copy of the letter to you in case other people don't want to file with government agencies for assistance.
Perhaps I'm overstepping my bounds but I hope you will consider using this in your website as a second response letter to the first if folks can't get what they are seeking. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks again for all the info and for your tremendous website!
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The legal debt validation follow up letter is here.

How can collection agencies on a yearly basis change the date of last activity.

How is it that the collection agencies can, on a yearly basis, change the date of last activity? Is this illegal? The debt is well over 15 years old and yet is it being reported as active.

How can I get them to stop and remove this from my credit report?
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
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They sell them to each other.

Be sure to try this Debt Validation letter.

Pay them and be done if you can.

Inquiries. remove Inquiries. Experian will not remove inquiries

I am writing because I hope that you can help me get some illegitimate inquiries off of my credit report. My wife applied for some loans in her name and the mortgage company pulled a tri-merged joint report. I did not know about the inquiries until later they showed up on my credit report. I wrote letters of dispute and telephoned Experian who told me that the only way to get them off my report was if the mortgage company was to request the inquiries to be removed. Experian said that inquiries are not treated like ordinary items and they cannot be removed without the express permission of the company that recieved the information. The mortgage company said that they will not remove the inquiries. These inquiries have all happened within the last 12 months and they are hurting my FICO. What advice would you give?
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That is just one hit per bureau.
Unless your wife went to several martgage companies

Any time one signs, to get approved, that is legal authorization to get you approved no matter what.

Even so, if you have less than 15 inquiries or so, your score is not really affected.

new account of same debt. Two bad debts for one now. Is that legal?

I have a charge off from back in 2002 when i lost my job, that the company was sold and reopened my account as a new fresh debt. Is that legal? I've heard of new companies who buy out old companies being able to attempt to recollect, but I never heard of them applying the same debt as a different creditor.
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Send them a debt validation letter and find out for yourself.