Apr 23, 2014
I almost got taken, because I have a federal school loan of about that amount over 60 days past due with ACS education. I only skimmed the email at first. So I emailed back and forth with them and noticed some things not making sense, ending with them demanding I make my settlement payment with a Green Dot card. I asked why they couldn't charge the bank account on file and they said for security they can't keep bank acct #s (aka-they make you buy a card with cash that can't be tracked). So I contacted the REAL ACS through my borrower login to check it out and obviously then looked here. After I spent a long email telling these people how much I was struggling to pay my debts, thinking this was my school loan holder, they had no remorse to keep trying to milk me for $350. I'm glad the warning bells went off, because this had exactly enough bits of truth that I'd have been totally taken. I am trying to get ACS to send a mass email to loan holders warning of this scam, because I'm sure we're the target.