Archive for August, 2011

Debt Collectors Using Social Media to Track Down Debtors

Posted on August 18, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

A disturbing practice among debt collectors is the use of social media sites to obtain information on debtors. Many users post their unlisted telephone numbers, the addresses and telephone numbers of their employers and other personal information to their public profile on the social media site they prefer to use. Some even go so far [...]

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Are You Receiving Auto Dialer or “Robo Calls” From Debt Collectors

Posted on August 12, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Debt collectors are becoming more aggressive in their attempts to  locate consumers with past due debts. Now, those efforts include calls that are from a robotic sounding, prerecorded voice, calling on behalf of the collection agency asking to speak to a particular party, rather than from a live person. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act [...]

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