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Bogus Debt Collectors sentenced after £410k Debt Collection scam

UK debt collections

Wayne Mark McCreery, 50, of St Andrews Road, Stretford, Trafford, Manchester, targeted the victim, who is aged in his 70s, between 2015 and 2018. Between 2015 and 2018, they claimed they were from a debt collecting agency acting on behalf of the county court regarding outstanding business advertising costs.

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FTC Cracks Down On Corrupt Debt Collectors

Collection Industry News

In a coordinated effort in 2015 called Operation Collection Protection, the FTC and more than 70 law enforcement partners took 115 actions against deceptive and abusive debt collection practices. In many cases, consumers didn’t even owe the debts. Get the name of the collector and the company, its address, and the phone number.

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CFPB, FTC, Federal and State Law Enforcement Crackdown on Corrupt Debt Collectors

Collection Industry News

“The CFPB is actively working to protect consumers from illegal actions of debt collectors,” CFPB Director Kathleen L. We will continue to monitor the financial marketplace, as well as consumer complaints received, in order to ensure that we identify and take action against debt collectors who are violating the law.”.

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City Council owed over 7m in unpaid rent arrears

UK debt collections

Liverpool City Council is owed more than £7m in rent arrears despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in the last 12 months. by the ACC Liverpool group for what it described in a statement as historical debt relating to property transactions between 2015 and March 2020. Of that, £2.6m is in year trading sums.

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A Swing and a Miss: Court Finds Plaintiff Lacks Standing to Assert FDCPA Claim After Prevailing in State Court

Troutman Sanders

5) a statement that, upon the consumer’s written request within the thirty-day period, the debt collector will provide the consumer with the name and address of the original creditor, if different from the current creditor. . 330 (2015) and TransUnion v. Adams was a debt collector.” The court, relying on Spokeo v.

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2nd Cir. Holds FDCPA Defendant’s ‘Bona Fide Error’ Defense Should Go to Jury

Collection Industry News

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that a debt collector did not violate the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) where it unintentionally sent a valid debt collection communication to a non-debtor. In February 2015, the collection firm obtained a new address for William J.

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Ohio District Court Holds TCPA Unenforceable From 2015 Through 2020

Burr Forman

12(b)(1), contending that the Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims because they arose during a time that the TCPA included a “government-debt” exception, which exempted calls made to collect a debt owed or guaranteed by the United States held to be unconstitutional in Barr v. 227 (“TCPA”).