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Collection Calls as a Result of Identity Theft
In most cases, people who receive collection calls accrued the debt themselves and have fallen behind on their payments. In some instances, however, these charges are a result of identity theft. Because people rely on technology to pay bills and...
Read MoreThe Reason for Debt Harassment
It is important to understand why collection calls feel like harassment in order to deal with the stress they create. Many Americans have fallen behind on their credit card, mortgage, and/or car payments because they have experienced some form of...
Read MoreKnow your rights when dealing with collection agency harassment
Unmanageable debt has become a way of life for a majority of Americans. Even as our government struggles to survive its own massive deficits, it is not surprising that we as individuals often have difficulty meeting our credit card payments,...
Read MoreJPMorgan Chase Hit With SEC Whistleblower Complaint Over Credit Card Practices
A former JPMorgan Chase employee is suing the company for wrongful termination but more importantly she has filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC. The allegations charge JPMorgan with robo-signing, which is the automatic generation of documents such as foreclosure...
Read MoreDebt Collection Harassment Attorney Appears on Fox News to Discuss Capital One Harassment
Debt collection harassment attorney Craig Kimmel and client Patrice Perry appeared on Fox News to discuss a case against Capital One. Capital One harassed Patrice over a credit card debt and sent her a bill for $286 million. As featured...
Read MoreDebt Collection Harassment Attorney to Discuss Capital One Story on Fox News
The story surrounding Capital One’s $286 million demand letter is making headlines across the Country, everywhere from National Public Radio to The Consumerist to the UPI wire. Patrice Perry will make her first national television appearance, along with her attorney...
Read MoreWhat’s in Her Wallet? Well, Not $286,651,237
A Delaware County woman claims that a malicious human being – and not a computer program – is behind the erroneous $286,651,237 credit-card bill that Capital One sent her last year, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Philadelphia...
Read MoreJPMorgan Pulls Arbitration Clause From Card Contracts
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s credit-card contracts will no longer require disputes to be settled through arbitration, a practice that lawmakers said was biased against cardholders, to help settle an antitrust lawsuit. After a class action suit was filed by Philadelphia...
Read MoreDebt Collection Agencies Must Prove That Debt Exists
Consumer credit laws are being created in many states that will force debt collection agencies to prove that the debt they purchased for pennies on the dollar exists and the consumer legitimately owes the money. North Carolina recently passed a...
Read MoreDebt Collectors Turn a Profit by Going After the Poor
It’s the “American Way”, turning opportunity into profit. It is certainly the way of the debt collector in these hard economic times with 15.1 million of the working class unemployed, 1/3 of which have been for six months or more....
Read MoreDebt Collection Empire Upends Credit Card Disputes
New York Financier J. Michael Cline had built a complex, billion dollar empire in the debt collection business, handling both sides of arbitration disputes for debt collectors through Minneapolis based NAF (National Arbitration Forum) and Axiant, LLC, a firm he...
Read MoreCredit Card Companies Respond to Consumer Protection Bill
Credit card companies are taking action ahead of the new Credit Card Consumer Protection Bill that will take effect in February of 2010. The bill was passed in May of this year and limits the ability of a credit card...
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