Posts Tagged ‘harassment’

This blog has a lot of great information for consumers dealing with debt collection harassment. Here is a roundup of some of the best posts for consumers coping with debt collection:

What to do when a debt collector calls
Stop debt collector calls with the TeleZapper
Debt collection complaints going up; what to do if you get a [...]

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Featuring Buffalo, NY, consumer lawyer Ken Hiller.

Getting a phone call from a debt collector can be very upsetting. Often, they ask for more money than you think you owe or call about a debt you may not remember. But whether or not you owe the debt, there are a few important steps you need to take to make sure you protect [...]

If you are getting phone calls from a debt collector, you should tell them, in writing, that you do not want them calling you. If that does not work, and just want them to stop, the TeleZapper should do the trick.
Most collection agencies use automatic—also called predictive—dialers. In other words, the collector sits at a [...]

Although we spend a lot of time on debt collection and credit cards, more consumers are experiencing problems with medical debt than anything else. In fact, some consumers’ credit card debt may be linked to medical bills, as well. The fact that so many Americans cannot afford healthcare is a political problem, but debt collectors [...]

Man Sets Himself On Fire At Rent-A-Center After Receiving Too Many Late Payment Notices | Consumerist

The Olympus TP-7 Telephone Recording Device (clever name, eh?) is probably the easiest way to record phone calls (from an abusive debt collector, for example) that I have seen. You stick it in your ear, plug it into a recorder, hold your phone normally up against your ear with the earbud in it, and it [...]

The Macys, a San Francisco couple, bought a million-dollar, six-unit apartment building in San Francisco, and decided to move out all the tenants and raise the rents (this is, of course, illegal in SF, but the Macys are not the sort of people who worry about legalities).
When the tenants fought the eviction notices, the Macys [...]

“More consumers are finding themselves the target of aggressive agents who don’t always play by the rules. Here’s what you need to know.” Debt collectors on the rampage | CNN

The CityPages just did a feature on my colleague and friend, Pete Barry. Choice quote:
“Why did you call my client a lowlife piece of shit?” Barry asked.
He was in California, deposing a debt collector who wore a Sean John T-shirt and a look of disdain.
“In my opinion, why was he a lowlife piece of shit?” [...]

Debt collection is something that everyone has to deal with. Case in point: a debt collector just left a message on my mom’s answering machine, where I have not lived for eleven years. My credit report is squeaky clean–I just checked–but apparently there is another Sam Glover out there who has worse luck.
Every time you [...]

Not compared with debt collectors in India, anyway.
Vinod Kumar was sitting in a friend’s car listening to the radio one evening last January when a stranger appeared, yanked him from the vehicle and beat him with an iron bar.
To collect a debt, that is. Here in the good ol’ USA, debt collectors still rely on [...]