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Foreclosures and the FDCPA
Foreclosures and falling home prices continue to plague Americans all over the country. According to a report by 60 Minutes, banks that want to foreclose on homes can’t find the original ownership documents. Where did they go? It turns out that corners...
Read MoreCollection 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 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 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 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 MoreReviewing the Top 5 FDCPA Complaints in 2009
Each year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provides Congress with a report on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). While the report focuses heavily on the number of complaints received from consumers, it also summarizes actions that the FTC has taken...
Read MoreNCO Financial Systems: A dreadful third party collection agency
Third party debt collectors break the law by violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The FDCPA is enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to direct and monitor debt collection practices by third party collectors. The FDCPA has...
Read MoreConsumer Rights and The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Consumer Attorney Craig Kimmel discusses consumer rights on KYW TV’s Talk Philly Program: [lite_youtube videoid="gYsjgcZ_ZVg"]
Read MoreConsumers Rights Protected Under the FDCPA
If you are receiving harassing calls from debt collectors, even if you owe the debt, you cannot be harassed, abused, threatened, or have others told about your debt! You have rights under federal law. Watch video of attorney Craig Kimmel speaking about the Fair...
Read MoreThree Lawyers Restricted from Debt Collection
Three out-of-state lawyers, accused of using unfair tactics to collect debts in Colorado, have been banned from collecting debts for periods ranging from three years to life, the Colorado attorney general’s office said Tuesday. Under a consent decree issued late...
Read MoreAre you the Victim of Sewer Service?
It’s a decades-old practice known in legal circles as “sewer service”. This occurs when a debt collector fails to properly serve a notice of complaint (litigation) upon the defendant (debtor) and then files a false affidavit claiming the notice has...
Read MoreThree Types Of Illegal Voicemails From Collectors And How To Make Them Stop
Voicemails from bill collectors are a reality when you have been turned over to collections. The dirty secret debt collectors don’t want you to know about is that they very often violate the law (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act –...
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