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• What Are Debt Collectors Trying to Hide?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  The key date in my wifes recent unlawful termination at Birmingham-based Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation appears to be September 14. Thats roughly the date when it became clear that we intended to move forward with discovery in our lawsuit against NCO Financial Services and Ingram & Associates LLC ...
  1 week ago

• Did Debt Collectors Cheat My Wife Out of Her Job?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  Why would my wife state in a deposition on Monday that she thought her recent unlawful termination at Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation was driven by individuals connected to the debt-collection and credit-card industries ? Several pieces of circumstantial evidence indicate that Mrs. Schnauzer (MS) was ...
  1 week ago

• Understanding 1st Party and 3rd Party Collectors

  
  Bargaineering — Authority: 671
  I have been following the How to Fight Debt Collectors series and noticed that the articles are all geared towards third party collections. For 3 years, I worked as a first party collector in the collections department for a mortgage company. During that time, I learned a lot about debt, people, and collection ...
  1 week ago

• Now My Wife Has Been Cheated Out Of Her Job, Too

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  Regular readers know that a central event in our Legal Schnauzer story came when I was unlawfully terminated at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in May 2008. Now my wife has been cheated out of her job, too. Overwhelming evidence indicates that I was canned because individuals in Alabamas right-wing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Schnauzer Prepares to Square Off Against Debt Collectors Pit Bull

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  Question: Whats the only thing slimier than an unethical debt collector? Answer: An unethical debt collectors lawyer. That probably was the main lesson gleaned from our depositions yesterday in a lawsuit my wife and I have brought against NCO Financial Services, a debt-collection company based in Horsham, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What are Junk Debt Buyers?

  
  Bargaineering — Authority: 671
  Junk Debt Buyers, also called JDB’s, engage in the business of buying distressed assets at pennies on the dollar and then try to collect on that debt. Sometimes they try to go after the full amount, sometimes they’ll accept a settlement amount of 50% or less. It’s not a bad business to be in, except they suffer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Debt Collectors, Depositions, and Videotape

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  For all of my legal experiences over the past 10 years or so--most of them unpleasant--today will mark a first. I, the Legal Schnauzer , will raise my right paw, swear to tell the truth, and give a deposition. Its part of a lawsuit Mrs. Schnauzer and I have brought against NCO Financial Systems, a large ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Is Debt Validation?

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 142
  A validation of debt is a request for proof that the collection agency that is contacting you owns the debt/or has been assigned the right to collect the debt on behalf of an original creditor. A validation of debt also includes a complete payment history, starting with the original creditor, and a copy of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Is Debt Validation?

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
  A validation of debt is a request for proof that the collection agency that is contacting you owns the debt/or has been assigned the right to collect the debt on behalf of an original creditor. A validation of debt also includes a complete payment history, starting with the original creditor, and a copy of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• New From the GAO

  
  Get Credit Cards — Authority: 158
  New GAO Reports and Testimony (PDFs) Source: Government Accountability Office21 October 2009 + Reports 1. Credit Cards: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Could Better Reflect the Evolving Debt Collection Marketplace and Use of Technology 2. U.S. Department of Agriculture: Internal Control Would Improve Accountability ...
  2 weeks ago

• GAO Releases Report on Credit Card Debt Collection Practices

  
  Get Credit Cards — Authority: 158
  The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report, " Credit Cards: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Could Better Reflect the Evolving Debt Collection Market Place and Use of Technology ". The GAO said it was asked by Congress to examine (1) the federal and state consumer protections and ...
  2 weeks ago

• When Debt Collectors Violate the FDCPA

  
  Bargaineering — Authority: 671
  As we learned in this classic abusive debt collection story , and Craig’s awesome response, debt collectors are often unfamiliar with the law. Not only are they unfamiliar with it, they routine violate it… which means you get to collect from them . Want an example? Let’s say you call a collector to check on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Collection calls and it’s not your debt? What to do

  
  Ask Liz Weston — Authority: 468
  Dear Liz: With the rise in personal delinquencies these days, my husband and I are in the same boat as a lot of people with common surnames: We get daily robo-calls from collection agencies attempting to collect debts from individuals with names similar or identical to our own. These are not our debts, and we check ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Low Will Debt Collectors Go--in Alabama and Beyond?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 471
  Just when you think youve heard the worst from bottom-feeding debt collectors, the industry takes itself to a new, even lower, level. We have reported several times about the debt-collection industry, most recently with this post about an expose by Dateline NBC . Now we have two cases of even more egregious ...
  3 weeks ago

• Debt Collector On Tape: "Im Gonna F**** You Up" [Audio]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 775
  "When I see you, Im gonna f*** you up," says debt collector "Mickey," pictured at left, on the answering machine of a guy who bounced a check. WTSP obtained the messages, some of the worst debt collector recordings Ive ever heard, and you can listen to them here . The guys lawyer says hes already repaid the debt ...
  4 weeks ago

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