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Have you ever wondered if your medical provider could compromise your some of your most personal information….your medical and treatment history? Of course this is illegal but unfortunately some debt collectors and medical providers make mistakes. Recently the Minnesota AG sued a debt collector and their license was suspended for just such a breach. Here [...] Read Full Story

How about a law firm that acts as a debt collector but instead of bringing legal actions on its own hires another law firm to do its dirty work both the collecting and the legal stuff? One of the cesspool law firms that does the bidding of law firm junk debt buyers is Lee Howard [...] Read Full Story

As many of you know the President has appointed the head of the brand new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If you have not stopped by, this agency has its own website. I am going to paste in a link below. The people who run this agency want to hear your stories both good and bad [...] Read Full Story

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/05/smallbusiness/doctors_broke/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3&hpt=hp_c1 Read Full Story

People get into financial trouble through no fault of their own but because they fall on hard times or experience a bad confluence of events. I am going to be doing a series of videos about self help. Here is the first one: Read Full Story

A colleague was discussing StoptheCallsFast with me and made the very worthwhile observation saying something to the effect, “They need you before they get sued.”. I thought  about that statement and think he hit the nail on the head so I have just made this video:   Read Full Story

Debt Collector Nelson, Hirsch & Associates Enters into $4.3 Million Settlement with the Governor’s Office of Consumer Protection November 8, 2011 ATLANTA, GA – Nelson, Hirsch & Associates, Inc., a Georgia debt collections company, and its owner, Tanya Santiago, have entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the Governor’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP), [...] Read Full Story

You receive a letter from a collection agency, debt collector or law firm acting as a debt collector. The debt might be yours or it might not be. Whatever the case there are certain procedures that you should follow in order to protect yourself against being compromised legally and/or financially. People have told me that [...] Read Full Story

If you are called by a collection agency (debt collector, junk debt buyer) it is never a good idea to give them any information over the phone. Anything they need to convey to you should be in writing whether it is your debt or whether they are making a mistake which happens a lot. In [...] Read Full Story

The Ohio Attorney General has finally nailed CBCS.  You can read the entire settlement agreement right here Any intelligent person must be asking themselves how it is possible that a slime bucket company like this one has managed to stay in business for so long. The transgressions of CBCS range from violating numerous sections of [...] Read Full Story