Debt Collection Industry

'Do You Want To Pay Now?': How A Hospital Hounded A Sick Patient

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.21.2012

No one at the hospital ever said Bruce Folken's medical care would suffer if he didn't pay up, but it sure felt that way. Folken, 62, went to Fairv...

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Dealing With Debt Collectors: Be Their Friends

Kevin Yu | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Debt Collection Harassment, Debt Collectors, Debt Settlement, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Paying Off Debt, Dealing With Debt, Money News

Debt collection agencies are used to being yelled and cursed at, so why not take the opposite approach and try to be their friends?

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What To Do When You're Getting Calls About Someone Else's Debt

Bankrate | Steve Bucci | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Debt Collectors, Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, ID Theft, Crime, Identity Theft, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Financial Crime, Payday Loans, Financial Crimes, Debt Collector Harassment, Money News

Dear Debt Adviser, I am a victim of identity theft. The person who stole my ID took out a payday loan and used a fake bank account number. I am now b...

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Debt Collectors Might Be Employed To Recoup City's Unpaid Water Bills

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Debt, Debt Collectors, Canton, Debtors, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collectors Facebook, Ohio, Recession, Debt Collector Harassment, Video, Business News

The city of Canton, Ohio might be giving the debt-collection industry some rather good business soon. The Canton city council will vote Monday on w...

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Fake Collectors Use Payday Lender Info To Scare People Into Paying Debts They Don't Owe

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Video, Debt Collectors, Debt Collector Abuse, Diana Mey, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Collection Agencies, Ftc, Debt Collectors Facebook, Payday Loans, Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, Debt Collector Harassment, Business News

Another day, another story of debt collectors acting shady. Some California residents recently started getting threatening calls from fake debt col...

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Woman Wins $10 Millon From Debt Collectors In Court, Can't Collect

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Debt, Debt Collectors, Video, Diana Mey, Debt Collector Settlement, Collection Agencies, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Settlements, Federal Trade Commission, Debt Collector Harassment, Business News

One woman is having trouble getting a debt collector to fork over its debt to her. Diana Mey, a West Virginia housewife, won an eight-figure court...

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Debt Collectors Want To Be Your Friend On Facebook

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Debt, Social Media, Debt Collectors, Consumer Debt, Debtors, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Ftc, Collection Agencies, Debt Collectors Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, Business News

Your Facebook profile can and will be used against you. A recent segment on KDVR, the Fox affiliate for Denver, reminds us that collection agencie...

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Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over Accidental $280 Medical Bill

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Herrin, Video, Debt Collectors, Legal Fees, Debtors' Prison, Collection Agencies, Daily Mail, Ftc, Debt Collection Industry, Lisa Lindsay, Suicide, Breast Cancer, Business News

In the latest example of aggressive debt collector tactics, an Illinois woman found herelf jailed over a bill she didn’t even owe in the first place...

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Debt Collectors Increasingly Using Abusive Threats, Insults, Lies: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Working Poor, U.S. Economy, Debt, Debt Collectors, Video, Consumer Debt, Unemployment, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Business News

It's a debt collector's job to be nasty. And lately, they've performing that task quite well. Debt collectors have been adopting increasingly unpl...

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Government Agency Continues Its Fight Against Abusive Debt Collectors

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Asset Acceptance, Video, Debt Collectors, Rumson Bolling & Associates, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Ftc, Cfpb, Rincon, Federal Trade Commission, Nonbanks, Consumer Protection, Debt Collector Harassment, Republicans, Business News

The government's efforts to police debt collectors -- an ongoing battle that has drawn in countless ranks of cash-strapped consumers in recent years -...

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Demand That Collection Agencies Keep "The 5 New Year's Resolutions for the Conscious Bill Collector"

Jerry Ashton | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Fdcpa, Creditors, Debt, Debt Collectors, Debtors Revolt, Debtors' Prison, Student Debt, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collector Harassment, Business News

If there is one thing that most Americans might agree upon it is that the debt collection industry and the work it performs ranks in status somewhere below that of a Wall Street Banker and slightly above that of a U.S. Congressman.

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Debt Collectors Used Lies, Threats And Insults To Get People To Pay Up, FTC Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Crime, Ftc, Rincon, Federal Trade Commission, Harassment, Debt Collector Harassment, Tom Syta Ftc, Rincon Debt, Debt Collectors, Video, Rumson Bolling & Associates, Rincon Debt Management, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Fair Debt Collection, Tom Syta, Business News

"Look, I am trying to help your company. This matter is serious and will cause problems at the job." That's allegedy what employees at Rincon Debt ...

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Debtors' Prison in 2011

Wall Street Journal | JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Sue, Capital One, Debtors' Prison, Judges, Debt Collection Industry, Ftc, Borrowers, Regulators, Encore Capital Group, Federal Trade Commission, Lawmakers, Arrest Warrants, Business News

Some lawmakers, judges and regulators are trying to rein in the U.S. debt-collection industry's use of arrest warrants to recoup money owed by borrowe...

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FTC Urges States To Rein In Frivolous Debt-Collection Lawsuits Overwhelming Courts

Posted 07.12.2010

Read More: Debt Collection Harassment, Debt Collectors, Automated Debt Collectors, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Automated Debt Collection, Debt Collector Harassment, Business News

Throughout the financial crisis and deepening recession, debt collectors have been harassing Americans, often under false pretenses, in order to scare...

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Debt Collector FINED $1.5 Million For Vulgar Voicemails

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Advanced Call Center Technologies, Credit Card Debts, Debt Collectors, Loanshark, Debt Collection Industry, Loans, Allen Jones, Racism, Lawsuit, Video, Business News

Harassing, abusive debt collectors, like the ones HuffPost readers detailed last June, should consider themselves warned. A jury has awarded a de...

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"If China Calls, Tell Them I'm Not Home."

Dean Obeidallah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Obama China, Foreign Debt, China, Economic Crisis, Barack Obama, Treasury-Bonds, China Debt, Treasury Bonds, Debt Collectors, Debt Collection, Debt Collection Industry, Comedy, Comedy News

As a comedian, I have had to deal with my share of debt collectors in the past so I wanted to offer some advice to President Obama on how to best avoid China if they start trying to collect their trillion dollars...

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Debt Collection Boss: "Business Is Brisk"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt Collectors, The Affiliated Group, Sunrise Credit Services, Collection Agencies, Debt Collection Industry, Debt Collection, Ftc, ACA International, Federal Trade Commission, Collection Agency, John Nemo, Business News

John Nemo says the notion that debt collectors are capitalist vultures who profit off other folks' struggles is a "stereotype." Nemo is a spokesman ...

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Debt Collectors Looking To Establish Friendly New Image

New York Times | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt Collectors, Debt Collection Industry, Nice Debt Collectors, Business News

Just in time for a recession, the debt collection industry is working to shed its reputation for remorselessly hounding people. Oh, the collectors st...

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