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What’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 MoreWoman Sues Capital One For Debt Collection Harassment After Letter Demanding $286 Million
(Philadelphia, PA) -A woman saying she was harassed by Capital One for a disputed $4,000 credit card debt has filed suit after the bank demanded more than $ 286 million dollars. Attorney Craig Thor Kimmel of Kimmel and Silverman, P.C., an...
Read MoreWomen Sues Debt Collector Over FB Messages
Should Facebook be off-limits for debt collectors on the prowl? One Florida woman thinks so. Melanie Beacham, of St. Petersburg, Fla., filed a complaint against MarkOne Financial, LLC, alleging that employees of MarkOne harassed her and her family members over Facebook to...
Read MoreCollection Agency Faced Sanctions After Wrongly Identifying a Debtor
The collection agency of Pressler & Pressler has a track record of wrongfully identifying consumers and strings of violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In a recent case, Mr. Mark Hoyte was wrongfully identified by Pressler & Pressler as...
Read MoreSSA Group (South Shore Associates Group) of Hamburg New York Threatens Consumers!
Listen! Don’t pay this debt collector under any circumstances! Voice mail from SSA Group to a consumer
Read MoreDebt Collectors Face a Hazard of Writers Cramp
When Michael Gazzarato took a job that required him to sign hundreds of affidavits in a single day, he had one demand for his employer: a much better pen. “They tried to get me to do it with a Bic,...
Read MoreDebt Collector Faked Court Hearings to Trick Consumers into Paying Up Says Suit
A Pennsylvania debt collector conducted fake court hearings in a mock courtroom in its offices and even sent uniformed officers who appeared to be sheriff’s deputies to serve civil subpoenas demanding that consumers appear for “hearings” and “depositions,” the state...
Read MoreAn Insider Look at How Debt Collectors View the FDCPA
The Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, or FDCPA, was enacted to protect consumers from overzealous debt collectors whose methods include harassment, threats and coercion. To these businesses a consumer is nothing more than a number representing dollars and cents, part of...
Read MoreLawsuit Points to Alleged New Tool in Debt-Collection Arsenal: Facebook
When Melanie Beacham was on medical leave from her job last summer, she got behind on her car payments. Although she called the finance company to explain, debt collectors not only telephoned her repeatedly but found another way to make...
Read MoreDebt Collectors Using Social Media to Find Debtors
From Fox & Friends–Debt collectors are doing all they can to find you, even searching Facebook. A must-see.
Read MoreOld Debts That Won’t Die
Timothy McCollough freely admits that he stopped making payments on his Chase Manhattan credit card in 1999. He says he did not have the means to pay after he was disabled by a head injury that cost him his job...
Read MoreNY Law Firm Files 80,000 Suits a Year with 14 Lawyers
Cohen & Slamowitz has only 14 lawyers on staff, but it manages to file about 80,000 lawsuits a year. The Woodbury, N.Y., firm files debt collection suits, and it uses computer software to help prepare its cases, the New York...
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