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- Debt collectors from NCO make 400 million calls a year
- Scripps survey shows harassment by debt collectors common
- What consumers can do when debt collectors call
- Editorial: Scrutiny needed for debt collection industry
- Debts packaged and sold, sometimes illegally
- Debt collectors have an advantage over debtors
- FTC opens initial study of consumer debt purchasers
- No-shows allow debt collectors lacking evidence to win court cases
- Feds order collection firms to open books on debt sales
Debt Collection in Scripps Howard newspapers
- Knoxville News Sentinel
- Treasure Coast
- Ventura County Star - Debt collectors' tactics can be illegal, lawyers say
- Ventura County Star - What consumers can do when debt collectors call
- Ventura County Star - NCO collectors make 400 million calls a year
- Ventura County Star - Scripps Howard survey shows people are feeling harassed
- Memphis Commercial Appeal - Debt-collection abuses rising, Americans claim suits favor collectors
- Memphis Commercial Appeal - 'Rocket docket' leaves Memphis debtors behind
Debt Collection in Scripps Howard TV stations
More Americans are complaining that debt collectors are using shady and possibly illegal practices to hound them for payments, a Scripps Howard investigation has found. Complaints this year to federal authorities about unscrupulous debt collectors are on pace to be more than 6 percent higher than two years ago.
