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Posted on Apr 27, 2011
Two horrifying debt collection stories have been reported this month out of Indonesia. Last week an Indonesian debt collector was murdered by a consumer for trying to collect a debt. Earlier this ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011
Modifying your mortgage may help with the financial trouble you are in, but voluntarily going into default so as to become qualified for a modification may have some unforeseen downsides. Consider a ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011
A Pennsylvania school district is considering hiring a debt collection agency to pursue children who owe lunch money. The school district is owed a total of about $3,000 for school lunches that were ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission just issued its 2010 Annual Report on debt collection. Not surprisingly, debt collection is once again the single most complained about industry in the United States. The ...
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Posted on Mar 31, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission just issued its 2010 Annual Report on debt collection. Not surprisingly, debt collection is once again the single most complained about industry in the United States. The ...
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Posted on Mar 22, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with a debt collection agency called West Asset Management. The Federal Trade Commission is the federal agency that oversees debt collection ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2011
Debt collector/fugitive Tobias Boyland, was captured (again) by U.S. Marshalls near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on March 15th. Boyland (a.k.a. "Bags of Money") operated numerous collection agencies in ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010
I am pleased to announce the launch of my New York collection abuse law blog! An RSS feed is available for you here.
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