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Weltman, Weinberg, & Reis, PC

323 W. Lakeside #200 323 W. Lakeside #200
Cleveland, Ohio, 44113

www.weltman.com

Phone No. 800-837--6008 216-363-4000 800-683-1204
Fax 216-739-5072 *216-363-4121 363 4085 739-5072

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Employee, on 18 January 2012 - 10:17 PM, said:

I am a current employee of Weltman. While we are aggressive for our clients, every employee is required to re-train on FDCPA every year, among other laws. The company has set clients and generally does not buy debts. Many times, the client determines whether suit will begin or not. We must get approval and documentation from our clients. To say otherwise is just not true. I have a collector hounding me now and because of the things I've learned at WWR, I can protect myself. Though I am not a collector, I do work with some of them and know that they try extremely hard to work out arrangements with the debtors before filing a lawsuit. But, when calls go unanswered or are not returned, or debtors say they'll pay by a certain date and don't, then they ignore letters and requests to have a conversation, then the clients want us to escalate our efforts. It's a job. It may not be very popular, but WWR is a law abiding law firm. They perform a service for our clients who are owed money. And they happen to be very good at what they do, which is why people make up things about the firm. WWR attorneys are not stupid and will certainly not risk their law licenses to commit some of the foul things I've read. Just doesn't happen there. Educate yourselves before you judge.

Ohh we are educated. In fact I am very educated when it comes to your horrible firm. I, as a debtor had to deal with your unethical, uneducated, FDCPA and state violating firm about three years ago. The WWR model is to sue now, sue more, sue all the time even when you have violated the FDCPA. Then when WWR gets sued in Federal Court, they fight, kick, scream and twist things to make it seem like they are the victims of the whole thing.

We encourage collectors to post here, however I know better than to see this BS and I want our readers to know what a horrible, FDCPA violating firm that WWR is.

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Guest, on 20 February 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

Pay your debt. Then none of this has to happen. Period.

Ohh look another Weltman hack posting here. That is right, just pay your bill and this will not happen.. Well follow the law and you will not get sued...MORON.

I know this is Weltman Folks

IP listed below:

64.211.68.212

This IP traces back through a (tracert ping) to weltman-weinberg-reis.vlan408.asr1.c1e1.glbx.net

The real IP is 209.130.173.158 (they are attempting to spoof their IP)

As you can see from the original IP that made the post it locates back to Cleveland Ohio which is where one of their offices is located.

http://www.weltman.c...bout/locations/

Is that you Theresa Weinberg??

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This company is by far the worst I have ever dealt with. Beware! They will lie to you and tell you what you want to hear in order to further their bottom line.

I was sued for 3 credit card accounts by this company. Two of them were for under $1000. One of them was for approximately $5000, but by the time they jacked up their fees it was over $8000.

Long story, but I called and spoke with a guy named Brandon when I got served my papers. I had no money whatsoever for an attorney, otherwise I would have gotten someone on the case. He advised me that I was doing the right thing by calling and making arrangements because that way I would be avoiding a judgement. He set me up for monthly payments that were much more than I could afford (I make a little over $10/hour, single woman). He refused to accept anything lower than what he offered. Keep in mind, he advised me that I would not get any judgements. He then proceeded to collect $350 via check by phone from me. At that point, I didn't realize that was the wrong thing to do.

Imagine my surprise when I received 3 separate judgements before my next payment was even due. I was shocked because Brandon had assured me that no judgements would be filed. At this point, I was very gun shy about talking to anyone at WWR. I changed my checking account number with my bank.

One other thing....when I spoke with Brandon, I advised him that I could not be contacted at work; it is against policy to receive these types of calls at my workplace, and our phone calls are monitored. About 3 weeks-one month ago, I did receive a collection call at work from a woman named Barbara, whom I advised not to call me at work anymore. I have her extension and a message on my answering machine from her. Hello....blatant violation of the Fair Debt Collection Act. I also have witnesses to this phone call.

My feeling at this point was that this company was very shady, and I wanted to avoid speaking to anyone who would lie to me again and/or tell me just what I wanted to hear, but I had no money to seek legal representation.

Next step....WWR serves me at work with garnishment papers. At that point I did seek legal counsel with the help of my church and family. I took a day off of work and attempted to call WWR to try and reach some sort of settlement. Spoke to a woman named Janelle, who was polite on the phone, but told me there was nothing that could be done, that I was basically stuck with paying the full amount. I advised her that I only make a little over $10/hour, but she didn't seem to care. I advised her that I am at the point of filing bankruptcy because I do not have the money to pay the company what they are asking for. Okay.

Seven hours pass. Every day I check my bank account, and as is my usual habit, I checked my bank account. I saw that over $700 was being suspended, so I called my bank, and they advised me that it was a garnishment. Who was the garnishee? You guessed it, WWR. In other words, as soon as I got off the phone with Janelle, she must have called in to the bank and had my bank account drained because I mentioned the word Bankruptcy (speculative/alleged) . Was I rude in any way to her? Not at all. I was very calm and polite, not that it matters. These people are scum sucking bottom feeders who do not care one iota about your situation.

They will be nice to you on the phone, hang up, and then proceed to screw you. DO NOT BE FOOLED!! DO NOT TRUST ANYONE AT THIS ORGANIZATION!!

My best advice to anyone who ever receives any kind of communication from this company.....beware. They are liars; they will be nice on the phone, and then do whatever they want behind your back. Do not EVER give them any of your bank info. Heck, I had to change my checking account number from the original time that I was dealing with Brandon, and they still found out my new account number. Get an attorney on anything dealing with this company or pay them what they want. Your choice. But they are RUTHLESS. They want their money, and they will stop at nothing to get it. No heart, no compassion, expect nothing but deception.

Get an attorney right away if you ever get anything from these people. They will sue you; they pretty much sue everyone that they send any correspondence to. They prey on the poor and vulnerable. Call Legal Aid if you have no money. I do not want anyone else to get screwed by these people. I had high balances with other law firms/collection agencies, and they were ten times more professional and competent than the monkeys I had to deal with at this excuse for a "law firm". These people are really horrible, and I have dealt with a lot of collection agencies in the process of dealing with debt.

I have an attorney on this. Can't say more, but will keep you posted if/when something happens. If you do settle with them, get it in writing before you pay them a dime. These people are scum.

I will devote all my free time to exposing these people for the scum sucking leeches that they are. They spend their time preying on the poor and uninformed. You may not have a lot of money, but that doesn't mean you have less of a case. I am for the people who don't have a lot of money or resources. Message me if you have a story about this company.

Brigette
Grand Rapids, Michigan

U.S.A.

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a twist on the other complaints. I have NOT been served or notified in any way but my bank account is frozen. my mortgage, utilities and health insurance are set up on auto withdrawal, so guess what happens now.

this company froze my checking account with NO court date, no hearing, nothing. the original debt is a 6 year old credit card with LESS than $300 charged on it. yes i should have paid it. but how can these people freeze my account with NO notice?

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These so called lawyers (not sure about the authenticity of that yet) are trying to take me to court for a Capital One credit card that was "written off" by capital one in 2009. Now I know that these sleazy companies buy old debt and try to get money from the people who owed it(past tense) but they are representing themselves on court papers as "representatives of Capital One" and Capital one is actually on the papers as the plaintiff.

But capital one does not own this debt any more and have no connections to this so called law firm.

They also checked my credit report with no authorization.

I went to a hearing which I wasn't allowed to say anything, and they set a tenitive court date for a few months from now. In the mean time I am complaining and sending reports to all the boards such as this one and the bbb, fcc, attourney general and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Maybe some one will take notice.

In my opinion we need a stop this type of "junk debt buying" practice more than we need any health care plans. These vultures prey on the poor and destitute of society because they know they are the part of the population who can't, or are not aware, that they can defend themselves.


There has to be a special area in hell where these people go. These practices are no better than a thug who knocks down an old lady for her purse, they just knock her down in a 3 piece suit.

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Weltman Weinberg and Reis harassed me for a debt for uncountable months. They were told I was on Social Security Disability and that it is illegal to garnish money from from my account. Somehow (illegally I believe) they got a court order and took what little money I had. I am in the process of trying to recover it and the penalties I incurred because of them.I notice on these reports people are not getting their money back.
I am going to sue not only for the money, but the mental anguish. I hope to win because I am on mental disability. Can anyone out there tell me if they have received their money back or successfully sued them?

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This company has the biggest jerks working for them. In fact when I spoke with someone at this company I guess he thought that being stern was going to have me begging to do what they what. They are not very help and in fact someone said that they have real attorneys working at this firm. If that were the case when I called I would not have been told that my representative was out of the office. If they were fact professional the idiot would have said that the attorny/lawyer handling the case was not in until the afternoon. I wanted to comment on the idiots who made sarcastic remarks to the other people who were having problems too. For the idiots: never judge someone else because you never know or if you will be in the same/similar situation. If you ever are in this situation lets see how you handle it. For me, my family obligations had to come first and if I had to do it again my family comes before any stupid credit card. So, before you speak about others know what the h--- you are talking about. And your opinions would not be so harsh if you knew that it wasn't true about these companies harassing people. Talk about what you know and have experienced and close your mouth about what you don't know or have not experienced. You hypocrites need to go back to school and get educated on life and people.

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As stated above I have removed external links to two other sites. Mainly because we do not condone the activity on the one site. The second site is nothing that will help consumers.

And FYI reporting to the AG can help, we have proof of that.

If people need discussion help please visit http://www.collectorsexposed.com

Thanks