Debt collection calls

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    • Blackstone Legal Face Permanent Ban
    • Posts: 1 | Last post: by MikeHuntleton
    • Debt collection operation Blackstone Legal, along with its owners, will face a permanent ban from the debt collection industry as a result of the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit charging that they deceived and harassed consumers to collect fake debts the consumers did not owe. Blackstone Legal,...
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    • Debt collector
    • Posts: 3 | Last post: by MikeHuntleton
    • Debt Extortion Scam Courier Services and Process Servers do not know what is contained in the documents they are paid to serve/deliver. They don't cold call a recipient to inform them of a "failed attempt to deliver", as that would alert the recipient someone is attempting to Serve them. Anyone ex
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    • Portfolio Recovery - TV News Item
    • Posts: 4 | Last post: by Pudge
    • Thanks for posting B. This will be a good report to put up for anyone dealing with PRA. update: just posted your link to a thread with PRA call.
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    • Payday Loan Scam
    • Posts: 1123 | Last post: by GregAtTheBeach
    • Fall behind on a credit card bill, then you'll be inundated with ads for them. I took out some short-term, low-interest loans one year, to shift income to the next year, rather than pulling from a 401k that year, for tax reasons. (It's all about cash flow, and 2% loans did the trick.) Apparently,...
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    • Debt Collector Massive Data Breach
    • Posts: 5 | Last post: by BigA
    • I'm in the same boat. Unfortunately I couldn't get enough evidence of their violations of the FDCPA to sue them otherwise I would have.
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    • CFPB Nails Repeat Offender Portfolio Recovery for 24 Million
    • Posts: 16 | Last post: by RayG
    • Agree - but the usual auto-dialers are now more careful to call within the "okay" hours - had one a few days ago at exactly 0800 - the "one ring" call screener does let me know we have had a call - and if a human calls they can leave a short message once answered the challenge
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    • Debtors Work Here --OR-- First Do No Harm ... To Accounts Receivable
    • Posts: 1 | Last post: by Resident47
    • This is my thread transplant operation on a story first pointed to us by BigA two Saturdays ago. I've below hyperlinked the CNN original, on principle and for embedding nice photos. Arkansas hospital sued thousands of patients over medical bills during the pandemic, including hundreds of its own e
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    • Equal rights
    • Posts: 5 | Last post: by Resident47
    • The more I read the two lead comments, the less sense they make. That takes a talent for wooly thinking. Let's first please not confuse the varying purposes of call centers. "Clients" employ debt collectors, turning them loose on debtors. Sure, the ambush phone call is an awkward tactic, often use
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    • Medical Debt Won't Stop Burning Florida Child
    • Posts: 9 | Last post: by BigA
    • Another egregious case of a hospital collecting debts not just from the patients but from its own employees as well: https://www.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-hospital-sued-thousands-patients-105953695.html Arkansas hospital sued thousands of patients over medical bills during the pandemic, including...
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    • Anyone heard of Zenith.com
    • Posts: 8 | Last post: by Kat*
    • So YOUR calls are from Household Orchard? Or did you post here because you've heard of zenith.com?
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    • Dispute Resolution Center scam
    • Posts: 23 | Last post: by Resident47
    • You can try describing "the scams" and "activity" on sister site WhoCallsMe, which is not restricted to ten digit sequences. You'll have first crack at helping others to identify the caller. https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/441865503239
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    • Collectors want my bank account info
    • Posts: 86 | Last post: by Kman
    • Be extremely careful as to who you give your bank account information to. Once they have, these crooks can go to town at your expense. Sadly, there isn't anything your bank can do (in terms of trying recoup your money and possible overdraft fees if it gets into the negative) because you gave your...