Debt Collector with 6,000 Accounts Settles for $4 million

According to state officials the company repeatedly engaged in bad behavior prohibited by the Fair Debt Collection practices Act. 

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"The main thing is you don't threaten people in terms of their debt," said Bill Cloud, a spokesman for Georgia's office of Consumer Protection. "You don't threaten them physically. You don't threaten them with arrest. You don't act like a law firm if you're not. These people were just doing everything in the book that was wrong." Cloud says since 2008's financial meltdown, abuse by debt collectors has been one of the most frequent complaints his office receives. 

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Debt Collector Threatens to "dig up daughter" over funeral debt.

You really can't make this stuff up. Seems credit repair houston is fighting the good fight with stories like these. In this case, the FTC is cracking down on debt collectors that are making threats that are absurd.

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Debt collectors generate more complaints to the FTC than any other industry, according to government agency. Last year, there were 144,159 filings against collection companies, the second largest category of complaints to the FTC. There were 250,854 identity theft related complaints last year, or 19 percent of all complaints.