Collections

Hot off the heels of yesterday’s blog about some of the worst credit repair “advice” I’ve ever read – not to mention our story on the Indian debt collector scams – comes another story of some shady a-hole debt collector. Before we get to it, though, I thought we’d have a little POP QUIZ! Can [...]

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Last Friday, we posted some pretty unbelievable audio taken by one of our credit repair clients that featured someone claiming to be a debt collector trying to convince her that she owed them money for a loan she’d taken out.  Upon further investigation though, it turned out that “debt collector” was part of a new [...]

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They say it’s always better to show than it is to tell, but it’s not often we get to do something about that.  We often talk a lot about what kinds of terrible people debt collectors can be.  Some of the horror stories relayed to us are so terrible, we stop and wonder how people [...]

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We’ve blogged in the past about what to do when debt collectors come calling (and don’t want to stop).  Whenever you have a debt that’s fallen into collections, you can usually expect to get more than a few phone calls from the collection agency trying to get you to pay them which, for a lot [...]

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Here’s a problem that we’ve seen pop up on multiple consumer’s credit reports that we feel needs to be addressed in a MAJOR way.  It has to do with medical debts and the frequency of medical collections that seem to pop up on your credit report after a visit to the doctor’s office. Say you’ve [...]

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We admit it.  We take a certain amount of macabre pleasure whenever we hear stories of what we consider to be completely corrupt debt collection agency going down in flames.  The news that Mann Bracken, a law firm that claimed to specialize in consumer debt collection – and one that we’ve dealt with on more [...]

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With so many Americans on the receiving end of credit card bills instead of dollar bills, I figured I’d take the time to focus on the absolute worse part of being in debt – dealing with debt collectors.  You see, being in debt is one thing.  It’s bad enough to know that you owe someone [...]

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