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The Dangers of Pension Loans
Craig Kimmel of the Kimmel and Silverman law firm joins Hal Donahue for the weekly segment of What Vets Need to Know on The Union Edge, discussing the dangers of Pension Loans. For more information, news and help for...
Read MoreMississippi-Based Security Credit Services LLC Ordered to Stop Deceiving Consumers Through Debt Collection Scandal
After allegedly misleading consumers into paying unnecessary fees and falsely threatening consumers with lawsuits, defendants in a debt collection operation have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. The FTC alleged in its complaint that the defendants – a debt...
Read MoreDebt Collector Palisades Collections Accused of Harassing Innocent Consumers
Action News Reports Palisades Collections Waged War on United States Military Veteran with Impeccable Credit Score CreditLaw.com attorney, Amy Bennecoff, sat down with Action News’ Nydia Han to talk about the case of Frank Stack v. Palisades Collections, warning viewers...
Read MoreDemand for High-Interest Payday Loans Soars in Minnesota
Residents of Minnesota are turning to high-interest payday loans and other services outside the mainstream banking system, controversial enterprises that operate through a loophole to dodge state restrictions. The demand for these types of loans more than doubled in recent...
Read MoreFTC Study Shows Five Percent of Consumers Pay More for Goods & Services Due to Errors on Credit Reports
Check Your Credit Report for Free Using AnnualCreditReport.com & Dispute Suspicious Activity A recent congressionally-mandated study of the U.S. credit reporting industry, by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), found that five percent of consumers had errors on one of their...
Read MoreDebt Collection Horror Stories
Debt collector horror stories abound: There are threats to dig up the dead relatives of those who couldn’t pay their funeral bills, promises to imprison debtors or take their children into custody — even warnings that pets will be killed....
Read MoreSSA Group (South Shore Associates Group) of Hamburg New York Threatens Consumers!
Listen! Don’t pay this debt collector under any circumstances! Voice mail from SSA Group to a consumer
Read MoreDebt Collector Faked Court Hearings to Trick Consumers into Paying Up Says Suit
A Pennsylvania debt collector conducted fake court hearings in a mock courtroom in its offices and even sent uniformed officers who appeared to be sheriff’s deputies to serve civil subpoenas demanding that consumers appear for “hearings” and “depositions,” the state...
Read MoreTop 8 Complaints About Debt Collectors
The FTC is trying to educate consumers about what practices are illegal and what they can do about them. From this effort, they’ve compiled the top eight consumer complaints about illegal debt collection practices: 46.5% said debt collectors called continuously...
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