Nationwide Credit Inc review: Collection practices 36

I have a debt with Amex due I moved out of the states and it was difficult to make international payments. Anyways! Recently I called Amex to resolve the situation but my debt is not anymore with them, it is with Nationwide. I've read so many bad things about this company and honestly, I don't know what do to. I am ready to make the payment but I have some doubts. Is that company legal? I am concern about this. Is someone here that had experience with that company? can you help me! What should I do? and what will happen after I make the payment?

I was contacted by NCI, as they had purchased an old debt with Chase Bank. They offered a pay off and I accepted it, and was guaranteed that I would receive a verification letter within 30 days of my final payment. When the payment didn't come after two months of waiting, I called NCI and was told on three different occasions that the lettr would be sentt. It's now five months later, and when I called again to ask for a at my letter would be sent, I was sent a bill for the entire original amount on the account! You can bet I'm mad and I will be contacting my state consumer fraud office about this. Not only that, I'm a retiree on limited income, so I'll be spending some time on every complaint web site I can find to make sure Nationwide doesn't get away with this kind of crap!

If you call the number, an automated message says it's being recorded, and automatically goes to a voicemail. It's like they are trolling for phone numbers.

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I just got that same letter. It says, "Take Advantage of this Letter Now!" Call [protected]"
Nationwide Credit Inc.

I just got a letter with the American Express logo at the top and it looks legitimate. However, after reading the letter carefully, I see "National Credit, Inc." at the bottom. The letter offers to reestablish my Amex account if I pay the existing balance. It does not list a specific amount and so I am even more hesitant to respond to the offer. Like many, I would like to take care of my debt and improve my credit. I looked back through my files and the last contact Amex made with me was an offer to settle for half the amount owed.
I'm wondering if anyone out there has gotten a similar letter. If so, what are your thoughts or experiences with this offer. They mention in the letter that once I have paid the debt off, I can reapply for my account to be reopened. But, the fine print gives them a lot of bargaining room to deny my application.

I too have been getting calls at work about some kind of money I owe don't know even what company. The worst part is they called my son and my daughter and I never give out their phone numbers. I told them to stop calling me that they were harassing me then I was really upset that they called my children, asking where I lived they needed my address and place of employment. Finally the just left a message to me saying to call them back and gave some ref. # but I never called back got the Nationwide name from the message they left on my sons cell #.

I have no idea if these people are a debt collection agency or just a bank and when they called me today they said they were some woman's name which puzzled me so thinking it was a scam I told them I did not know of this person they were looking for. I called them back on my ipod to see if I could find out who they were and then I realized they said they were Nationwide Credit Inc and not that other name they gave me. I do have some debts that are in default but I am dealing with that through some other agencies. I don't use an Amex card so I don't know why they would be calling me..

Nationwide Credit Inc.'s phone number is [protected]. They call me and never leave a message. I have had nothing in writing from them either. So then I call them, and when they answer, I hang up. Only seems fair since they do it to me when I do answer the phone.

OK another one that makes no sense Nationwide and these other so called " debt collectors'' are purveyors in nothing but monkey business. I wish these monkeys' would go somewhere else and stop bothering us with their harrassment and baloney. We have better things to do with our lives, than put up with these clowns, whose only purpose really is to take peoples' hard earned money. We are sick of it. These makeno sense whatsoever.

Makes no sense whatsoever. Nationwide and these other "debt collectors" are practicing nothing but monkey business. This makes no sense, wastes peoples' valuable time. These monkeys' need to take their "business'' elsewhere. We are sick of it.

I had a directv-2 bill placed with nationwide in 2002.I made a settlement of half the amount paid it in 2 checks for $133.50 each that was$267.00 I asked for a letter saying paid but didn't get one! So I keep the checks for my record. I got a bill yesterday from another collection agency for the same bill account # same and everything the amount is now is the other half that nationwide settlement 50% off in the amount of $266.57 they want me to pay half and the settlement and it will be paid in full for $133.29.it has been 10 years 2 months sine I paid nationwide settlement. How can this happen again! I called Directv who we have account with sines 2008.they said there is no old bill.I am trying to find a# for nationwide credit inc collection agency.can anyone help me?

This Nationwide Credit outfit is calling me even though my AMEX business account was paid off and cancelled in June 2011. AMEX stopped sending Paper statements. Just Who is Nationwide Credit anyway? Yhey are saying I owe them while My AMEX account was paid off and cancelled.

I completely agree that most of these 'DEBTORS' do not have checking accounts, however when they get a good settlement offer, out of nowhere a checking account crops up! Magic?!? wrong! its just that our 'American society ' is so used to using credit cards and not paying them off, that it all sounds harassing to us when we get a call from some guy in India asking us to pay our bills! we are so used to blaming circumstances and leadership and most recently the so called recession for not paying our bills. People in other countries also lose their jobs, fall sick, so why is it that in our country the percentage of debtors are so high?! Free advice..'DON'T RIDE A HORSE IF YOU THINK YOU'LL FALL OFF IT'!

You clearly work for this company, you have never dealt with them or you live under a rock. These people have contacted people that say they don't owe any money or don't have a checking account or have not taken out loans. Yes, clearly there are people that owe money, but if you lose your job or get sick, that is called an unforeseen circumstance. Hope you have some padding if you ever fall off your high horse.

You clearly work for this company.

it's quite shameful, how our economy is going down the drain and we have DEBTORS that want to work around their DEBT. Please look up those words, it means that you OWE someone, whether you feel like you were swindled or you've been a victim of "predatory lending", the fact remains that you, the DEBTOR, entered into an agreement, whether it'd be through a signature or through the use of services.

Most of these 3rd party collectors are very willing to help you settle the debt for cents on the dollar, but first you must be TRACKED down. If you feel that you are being harassed or you have been victimized by a creditor, by all means, seek legal advise, but face your RESPONSIBILITIES.

Nationwide Credit has their own set of guidelines and restrictions which are much stricter than those imposed by the LAW. Are there collectors that don't follow all the guidelines? Of course! But as a corporation, Nationwide is very compliant with all laws and respect your rights as a consumer.

We live in a society where there's a great demand for instant gratification and the Jones' effect is rampant. Meaning that everyone wants what everyone has. And so we create and feed a vicious cycle of consumption and waste. Please be more conscientious in your purchases and watch your credit, our descendants will be the ones that suffer our mistakes.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND PAY YOUR BILLS.

well you act surprised to hear that a collection agency is calling you.. i mean hello American Express tried to collect the debt before they send it out to an outside agency and obviously they need to hunt you down and call your family and get what they can on you because it sounds like you've been avoiding Amex..now you say you have no problem paying the amount owed yet you say you haven't paid because you stopped receiving your statements? now what if your electric bill was due on the 15th of every month and you received the bill around the first of every month, now lets say what if it was lost in the mail would you simply not pay it because it didnt come in? does that honestly count as a reasonable excuse? I think not... Amex has tried contacting you and it just sounds like a refusal to pay... how about you stop whining and cough of the 4k

Just say the 4 words "Cease and Desist disoute" send it certified. By law all calls will stop and this company has 30 days to produce the itemize bill for you. Good Luck!

WOw! I'm so glad I found this board. They somehow got my work phone/work cell phone numbers and have been incessantly calling, embarrassing me in a new place of employment! They are pushy, hard to understand--the 2 I had to speak with were in their office in India. THe whole thing seemed fishy to me so I told them I would not give them my checking account number over the phone and wanted my payment arrangement/agreement in writing mailed to me. He kept angling/yakkin trying to get me to do it and I refused. He kept me on the phone even when I said I was at work, had no privacy, in a new job after 3 years of 3 layoffs, et etc etc. So today he sent an email asking for me to send checks to their office in PA. I'm still not going to do it after reading these comments. I've never heard of them before, nothing in the mail, I only owe 600.00 and will gladly pay it now that I am finally able to, but not to these folks! I think the cease and desist letter is a good idea and go back to the original place I have the debt with-not these annoying people!

I too have made a payment to Nationwide in 3/2009. I still get calls from other collection agencies requesting payment for the same account that was paid. They never submitted my payment for my AMEX account! I have tried to contact Nationwide with no avail!

NCI has left messages on my phone with computer voice named Mary Jones. When I called and asked for her I got 4 different Indian men that I could not understand. One sounded like he was talking through a soup can attached to a string! After getting their names and company address I agreed to give them my last for numbers of ss number which they said did not match whom they are looking for. This is when I was not very friendly to them because I knew I had no debt. I wasted an hour of my life defending myself for a debt that was not mine! In the USA I know I am innocent until proven guilty. This company owes me!

My car note wound up in the hands of this company. I had 3 payments to make and the car was paid off. I received threatening calls telling me they were scheduling to have my car picked up. I made payment arrangements with them for 2 of the 3 payments and they sent me a notice that they were going to take the 3rd payment. I called them to tell them when it would be better to take the payment so as not to overdraw the account. I was assured that this would take place at the newly agreed-upon date. They took the payment when they said they would and overdrew my account. I was furious. Now that the car is paid off, I demanded my title. I was told that I would have to wait 45 days to receive it. It was their policy.

It's a good thing I don't live in Kennesaw, GA.

Stop letting these people stress you out! Google Cease and Desist letters and send one to them. Then they have to stop calling and harassing you. Make sure you send it with a return receipt requested so they can't say they never got it.

Don't ever give out your account information. They will clean you out. They will never only take out what they say. If you agree to send them something, send a money order.

Get settlement offers in writing. If it's not in writing, it's not true!

Last but not least - Unsecured credit goes to the bottom of the list! Take care of your basice needs first - ALWAYS!

For further information - check out Dave Ramsey!

I owe $8, 300 to amex and stop paying because these past year we have financial hardship sick, hospital, one property was not renting because the tenant buy a house and was not easy to rented again because the houses went down on value, well it has not been easy we lossed money to repair the house and 3 months rent, plus expenses on the hospital and loss days at work.

All of these got me behind on my AMEX card request a financial hardship did not approved and send me to charged off, then this GC Services Collection agency took the account, they try for a few months but can't ge any money out of ous and stop for a few months then my husband received a phone call from NCI Nationwide Credit Inc, harrassing him at work, a few days untill they told him he needs to pay it or he will be in trouble, he said I told you I don't have any money and the guy said can you at less give $100 my husband just to stop the conversation said probably, that was the worst thing he said. He assumed it was a YES and beging charging a post dated check every 29 from my checking account, which we don't have any idea how they get the routing number.

We already had a year of not paying AMEX there is a 4 year so they can not collect the money by law or sue you and now we going to start again from cero, and how are we going to stop this NCI Collection to stop charging money from my bank?

I am getting calls for a 1-800 at odd times of the night, and all day. I am in litigation with Direct TV for funds they charged me that I do not owe. But, it takes time to go through the Attorney General and so NCI is harrassing the hell out of me in the meantime.

I very much would like to settle also and have an account with AMEX which NCI is handling.

I have a feeling things are not going to go well anymore even though I have not missed a single payment in 14 months. This past month, NCI changed its POBox address without informing me. They of course have not received their Jan 2010 payment and have started harrassing me via phone at all times of the day. I cannot seem to get it through their heads that it is THEIR fault that they changed their address without informing me and now the Jan 2010 check is LOST in the mail. I do not have money for fees to stop payment, etc, so I will have to wait 90 days to get refunded this money. In the meantime, NCI will continue to harrass me and threaten me that my account is being sent "away". I have diligently paid them every month, and this is the treatment I receive. I am very happy to have found this board to vent...thanks to all who have added their stories here.

The same here. I missed a 2 months on the payments due to financial hardship. Did not get any letters or calls from Amex. Out of the blue, this company calls me and wants a return call back. I'm glad i found this board, helps alot.

Did anyone try to settle with Amex for less?

Can they put you on a continual every 10 minutes call to your cell phone? Is this legal and fair practice? This is happening to me if I'm 5 days late. I called them and they said they will do so until I make arrangements of payment. When I caught up, that day, they called every 10 minutes for 36 hours because they said it takes that long tot get it into the system to take the calls off. Is this true? They did demand I prove to them who I was, even though they called me. I said I wouldn't give anyone information over the phone. I was treated rudely over my rules of not giving out my personal information tot a perfect stranger. Isn't every ten minutes considered harassment?

My wife and I hit hard times about three years ago with medical bills and the loss of my job. We saw the writing on the wall and decided to take action and joined Clearpoint debt reduction to negotiate with our 4 creditors one of which is Amex. We have a direct withdraw from our checking account to Clearpoint who then sends agreed amounts to each debt. Last month after nearly 4 years of payments (never missed a one), we hit a snag with additional medical costs, and had to skip one payment to the program. Clearpoint contacted, as did I every one of the four accounts and have been assured that we are stilll in the debt program. Our Amex is nearly paid off, less than $600 hundred left. We sent an additional amount with July's payment to close the account and remove this from our ledger. Amex has indicated that we have completed the program and in two more cycles the results will be posted. In the mean time I am getting calls from Nationwide Credit Inc, telling me that we owe $10, 000. +, and they want the money now! I have no idea why they have this account. We have contacted Amex and they state we are ok. However, I keep getting these calls, in fact one this morning. Their treatment is foul, they treat you like you are a liar! My wife and I have been faithful to this program and are at the near end of owing anything to creditors. It really freaks me out to think that this company will somehow destroy our remaining credit by posting their false claim to this account. What can I do? I am currently in contact with Clearpoint and they are trying but this sure is a tangled web that seems to get more tangled every day.

Let's do a class action suit - this is happening to me now and they just snatched supplementary funds from my account without my authorization when I already had a different set agreement with them. This is ridiculous. This falls under the "unfair practices" violation of collections law. I am not taking this lightly what so ever!

The FTC fined them $1 million (twice) for this, however they are stealing so much from people that they are willing to pay other token fines from the government. Organized crime works by bribing our elected officials to not enforce our laws.

I am undergoing the same situation. I held an Amex Blue Card account and after being delinquent 3 months, Amex gave the account to Nationwide Credit for an amount after they jacked up the interest rate and tacked on all these fees turned into $5900 and spare change. Amex by far was both deceptive and predatory, but now with NCI involved, this seems outrageous. They have employed deceptive tactics on me and people I have known, including trying to call somebody I now longer deal with trying to get my "emergency contact" information. On top of that, they never leave me any information other than they want me to call back to give them my "location information". Eventually I answered a call from a so-called professional and she did not follow California Business Code, Section 6077.5, in which she has to identify herself. She eventually wanted to argue with me about a payment plan and I have no real income by which to maintain a plan. She also insisted that I use my Unemployment Insurance Compensation to pay Nationwide and I told her that it was not the intended purpose of any UI compensation. She would not hear of anything else and I had to tell her how unprofessional she was and after I requested to speak to her supervisor about her unprofessional conduct, she put me on hold and kept me there. I wound up hanging up.

The last time I had to tell a collector this, I had to remind that collector of California Penal Code, Section 31, which defines what Fraud is in California and that if found guilt of such is a felony. At this point, I am wondering if there is a class action suit against Amex and Nationwide Credit and if so, who can I contact? Any information regarding such would be immensely helpful and greatly appreciated.

It's also bad enough for Amex that they had to turn themselves into a bank so that they could cash in on TARP funds last Fall, but to resort to bully tactics and coercion is too much.

Yesterday I got a call, and they left an ugly message without verifying that it was the correct name, or address. When I called back, the person, Jeremy, wouldn't give me specific info until I verified MY IDENTITY!

My payment to Am Ex was not even late. I think that Am Ex should be held accountable for turning debt over to a known abusive collector. Am Ex. now tells me that they are going to take the account back from Nationwide, but I haven't been to work since yesterday, so I don't know whether or not they have already destroyed my reputation there. I am an administrator at a hospital.

Why is the FTC allowing this company to continue these practices? In the current economy, these practices represent the kind of stressors that are effecting people's health.

If you think that is bad this company nationwide got my info from AMEX. They wrote a check without my permission and took my rent and food money for the week. I also have the same complaint; I have gotten nothing in writing from them. They call me at 7am in the morning. Even when I ask them 3 times not to call they call. My dept is only $3500. I don't need this stress. I am pregnant with two children under 2. Now I have to try and get my money back. Someone has got to stop them. What do I do?

by the way, my debt with them isnt even as big as krax! mine's only $ 2800!

you are not aone. i have amex cards as well and the same just happened to me. they called me at work and immediately put notice into their "system" not to call me at work. however, the woman i spoke to refused to tell me who she was representing even after my insistance. finally she did and even went as far as to tell me what my monthly amex payment was and asked if i knew how long it would take to pay the balance off at the $58 dollar minimaum. i never to date got any communication from amex or from this nationwide company. i told her i wanted to pseak to amex first and she agreed my wanting to call them but that she better hear back from me by the next day. since then she's called me 3 times in one day. i told her i wasn't paying a dime to her comapny until they sent me something in writing. meanwhile, my account is not delinquent and the only payment that was late was november 2008 and that was by 8 days. i just went onto amex website and made my december payment to amex and they accepted the payment. is what they are doing legal?...it sounds like law breaking to me. by the way, i checked my credit report too and sure enough, there is a posting on my report rom this company. now what do i do?