Score Another Consumer Advocate Victory for FMD Consumer Blog
February 6th, 2010. Published under Business Scams. No Comments.
This was a hard ‘nut” to crack. I finally determined that FreedomRoad Financial was owned by Evergreen Bank Group / Bancorp Financial Inc, both of Oak Brook Illinois. The backstory A consumer and his family was being harassed by FreedomRoad Financial for being a credit reference on a loan application. Imagine that, being harassed over someone else’s debt for being a credit reference. FreedomRoad Financial’s alleged investigator even called the consumers family and scared the consumers mother to such a degree that she literally “freaked” out. I suspect though that the “investigator” is an employee of FreedomRoad Financial. Read the fill story here on FMD Consumer (opens in a new window). As a consumer advocate / Consumer Watchdog, I managed to contact the CEO of Evergreen Bank Group and the Vice President of FreedomRoad Financial and within 24 hours they contacted me and are investigating the issue. Hopefull they will fire the “investigator” and “Michelle” for violating collection laws. This is the response I received from Tom Collins the Vice President of FreedomRoad Financial: “Thanks for bringing this to our attention.