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Why Buffalo is a hub for illegal debt collectors

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Ciffa’s offices in Niagara Falls and Kenmore, debt collectors intimidated their victims with illegal threats of arrests and lawsuits. According to federal prosecutors, an elderly cancer patient in Texas was so rattled by the threats that she borrowed $500 from her sister to help pay off a debt of $1,285. Source: site.

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Meet some Buffalo debt collectors accused of unlawful practices

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In 2018, Homeland Security Investigations agents got a search warrant and seized $242,088 from Nocera’s business and personal bank accounts, after convincing a judge there was probable cause to believe the funds were derived from unlawful debt collecting and wire fraud. Gregory MacKinnon, Angela Burdorf, Joseph Ciffa.