Midland Funding Pays Big Fine Over Robosigning Debt Collection Suits One of the country’s largest debt buyers has agreed to overhaul its collection practices and pay the state of Minnesota $500,000 in a settlement that reflects heightened scrutiny of the growing industry. Midland Funding LLC, owned by debt-buying giant Encore Capital Group Inc. in San …
I just had an opportunity to look at the website for Midland Credit Management and I must say, for a collections agency they certainly appear more like a credit counseling group. Don’t get me wrong, it appear they provide full and apparent disclosure they are a debt collector, “Please understand that this is a communication …
Date This Problem Happened: January 1, 2011 State You Live in: Kansas Race/Ethnicity: American Indian Age Range: 51-65 Total Amount of Fee Paid: Company Name: Midland Funding Company Address: Company Telephone Number: Website of Company: Consumer Statement: I was told I had joined a class action lawsuit against Midland Funding LLC. As I check some …
“Dear Steve, Court order ignored My bank funds were frozen by midland funding and the small claims court in ct overturned the decision because the funds were exempt.The court ordered funds to be returned to my acct.but midland funding has ignored the court order now i am out of $1,300 + bank fees etc. what …
he Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing a class action settlement that would require consumers to surrender protections provided by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and state laws in exchange for minimal payments. The proposed settlement in Vassalle v. Midland Funding would resolve several private class action lawsuits …
The following guest post was contributed by Michael Bovee of Consumer Recovery Network. If you would like to contribute a guest post, click here. In the wake of robo-signing scandals involving home foreclosures across the country come the reports of similar behavior by debt buyers who file court actions in order to collect on delinquent …
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson today in a legal filing accused one of the nation’s largest “debt buyers” of defrauding Minnesota courts and citizens by filing false and deceptive “robo-signed” affidavits—generated at its offices in St. Cloud, Minnesota—to collect on old consumer debts that it purchased from credit card companies and others for about three …
“Dear Steve, In 2006, Midland Funding started mailing me letter about a dept Visa from Target, I advised them another Dept collection had agreed to a pay off and that the Dept was paid. Letter in 2007 they begain sending me bills again, I did not respond. Then I was served to by them for …
The problem of zombie debts, that’s debts that come back to life, is well known. What is becoming more of a problem is what happens when an old debt has been sold, sold, and sold again. The current debt buyer can’t really prove they own the debt at all. In fact just recently we published …
Midland Funding, a large debt collection agency that also purchased large amounts of debt for 3 to 4 cents on the dollar and then sued debtors, settled a large class action lawsuit and dropped over 10,000 lawsuits against debtors. The case Johnson v Midland funding, filed in Maryland, alleged that Midland Funding, in cooperation with …