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[David Ames]

Is this a legit organization?

My wife has received a dunning call and a notice from Student Loan
Consolidation Center, 9477 Naples Street, San Diego 92121 regarding
student loan accounts. In fact she attended college under her maiden
name over 30 years ago. Her father paid cash for her education.

I have advised my wife to get her free copies of credit reports. If
someone has posted educational loans to her credit profile, I want her
to get copies of the loan notes and an affidavit of forgery which will
be sent to Student Loan Consolidation Center, and to the Registrar of
the college supposedly attended.

If there are no educational loans posted to her credit profile, Student
Loan Consolidation Center should get redacted copies of those reports.

Any further ideas at this time?

David Ames

[Steve Blank]

David,

The organization appears legit, now you need to know if the loan is.

Goal Financial has a Student Loan Consolidation Center at the address
you list.

Their website is http://www.goalfinancial.net
Phone is 866-681-4291.

There is a mention of them in the webpages of finaid.org, a highly
reliable source of aid info, which says that Goal is now the tenth
largest holder of education loans.

I would start by calling the loan company to ask why they think she owes
something, and to obtain full details of the underlying documents and
colleges allegedly attended.

It may not be the case here, but often parents simply hand the college
student papers to be signed and the student never realizes she has a loan.

It would be interesting to hear what you find out.


Steven B. Blank
College Financial Aid Consultants
29 Ives Hill Court
Cheshire, CT 06410
(203)250-7761

[David Ames]

Sure, but I think that when one's interests may have been compromised,
it is better that all further communications should be in hard copy for
the record.

David Ames

[David Ames]

A call from a business organization has thanked my wife for her
patronage, although she has not done business with them nor visited
their location. We now have an address, and the person with the same
name apparently has an unpublished telephone number there. There is
reason to suppose, from a telephone listing and a Web search, that
there may be a daughter who attended a well-regarded liberal arts
college.

David Ames