Put Your Cell Phone Onto The National Do Not Call List
REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month. REMINDER: all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. …. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR...
View ArticleNCO 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...
View ArticleReviewing 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...
View ArticleWest Asset Management Pays Record Settlement, Offers Lesson in Consumer...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that debt collection agency, West Asset Management, violated the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) on multiple occasions, leading to thousands of...
View ArticleDebt Collector Allied Interstate Will Pay $1.75 Million to Settle FTC Charges
One of the nation’s largest debt collectors, Allied Interstate, was charged by the Federal Trade Commission for making repeated collection calls to collect from the wrong person, to collect the wrong...
View ArticleFTC Study Shows Five Percent of Consumers Pay More for Goods & Services Due...
Check Your Credit Report for Free Using AnnualCreditReport.com & Dispute Suspicious Activity A recent congressionally-mandated study of the U.S. credit reporting industry, by the Federal Trade...
View ArticleFTC Takes Action in Pay Day Loan Scam, Financially Vulnerable Consumers...
On February 20th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced victory, at least temporarily, in halting unauthorized credit card transactions involving thousands of consumers. The scammers charged...
View ArticleMississippi-Based Security Credit Services LLC Ordered to Stop Deceiving...
After allegedly misleading consumers into paying unnecessary fees and falsely threatening consumers with lawsuits, defendants in a debt collection operation have agreed to settle Federal Trade...
View ArticleGlendale-Based Debt Collector Fined $1M for Violating the FDCPA
A Glendale, California-based debt collector will pay $1 million dollars to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the defendants violated federal law. This is the first FTC action against a debt...
View ArticleDebt Collectors Settle with FTC for $3.3 million, Permanent Ban from Collecting
The Federal Trade Commission Thursday announced a settlement in a long-running case against two debt collection agency owners and their network of companies that threatened lawsuit and arrest over...
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