Owner Resource Group Purchases Debt Collection Agency
Owner Resource Group is a private investment firm located in Austin, Texas. In 2016 the company acquired GC Services, one of the country's oldest and largest providers of call...
Read More PNC Bank Accused of Assisting in $85 Million Fraud Scheme
A federal lawsuit filed in June of 2019 in Florida's Southern District court alleges that Jeremy Lee Marcus used PNC Bank accounts to run a fraudulent debt relief scheme that...
Read More Does a Debt Collector Violate the FDCPA By Offering to Settle A Time-Barred Debt?
Holzman v. Malcolm S. Gerald & Assocs., Inc. In a recent published decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the court reviewed a district court's dismissal of...
Read More Can a Debt Collector Send A Collection Letter With A Visiable QR On The Envelope?
DiNaples v. MRS BPO, LLC, et al. In a recent published decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment issued by the Western District of Pennsylvania in a...
Read More I am Being Harassed by a Debt Collector and My Insurance Should Have Paid
If you are being harassed by a debt collector to pay a bill that your insurance company should have paid, you may have found that simply telling the collector this did nothing...
Read More How to Deal with a Debt Collector
How you should deal with a debt collector depends on whether you owe the debt, do not owe the debt, or are unsure if you owe the debt, your financial situation, and your...
Read More Can I Pay a Debt Collector and What Do I Need to Know Before I Do?
Debt collectors are hired by the original creditor, or person who is owed money, to collect the debt for them. Once a creditor hires a debt collector, all payments should be...
Read More Former Con-Artist Tells Consumers How to Prevent Becoming a Target of Identity Theft
Frank Abagnale, Jr., a notorious conman and identity thief, turned trusted FBI consultant and one of the world's most respected authorities on fraud, forgery and cyber...
Read More CEO of Debt Collection Agency Sentenced to 100 Months in Prison
Four Star Resolution, LLC's owner and CEO was sentenced to 100 months in prison in April of 2017 for coercing thousands of consumers into paying more than $31 million to...
Read More Portfolio Recovery is Harassing Me!
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC is a company that purchases debt from credit card companies for pennies on the dollar. Oftentimes, companies, such as Portfolio Recovery,...
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