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You Can Be Instantly Sued When Your Debt Settlement Company Contacts the Debt Collector

NCO Group, a huge debt collection company recently provided an opinion about debt settlement services. Of primary interest to me was the statement from NCO that they are under instructions from their creditor clients that when a consumer tells NCO they have signed-up with a debt settlement company that NCO should refer the consumer account [...]

There’s Big Bucks in Bad Debts

For decades, credit-card companies and other firms would eventually give up after attempting to collect from deadbeat customers. Now, companies are packaging and selling many of those overdue accounts for pennies on the dollar to debt collectors. The collectors then aggressively pursue the debtors to repay, or they turn around and resell those same debts [...]