Don
Belleville,#2Consumer Suggestion
Wed, June 27, 2007
Based on experience as a collector, this account, based on the info provided sounds like it could be ID theft. It was about 7 months after the account was opened that it was charged off, meaning no payment was ever made. One thing as a collector you are taught to ask, is that if the account was open for a longer period of time and payments were made on it, "why would payments be made on an account fraudulently opened under someone else name?". This is not the case, as your decribed. It does seem quite strange that no collector has ever tried to contact you about this before. As for your last statement, if you file bakruptcy in July of 2000, and the account was not opened until Dec of 2000, it could not be included anyways.