by admin | Mar 31, 2011 | Blog
Nightmare Scenario #1: You check your bank balance on payday. Instead of the hundreds or thousands of dollars you expect, you find a ZERO BALANCE. Nightmare Scenario #2: You open the envelope containing your paycheck. Instead of the expected amount, you find that you...
by admin | Mar 9, 2011 | Blog
Lots of folks do big numbers during tax season: car dealers, accountants, furniture stores, the IRS…and debt collectors. Think about it–have you been getting more debt collection phone calls lately? Are they more persistent and more insistent? Debt collection firms...
by admin | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
I just read a personal finance advice piece on Reuters.com that gave, in my opinion, stunningly BAD personal finance advice. The piece was titled “When Debt Collectors Call, Hang Up”. Huh? The author of the piece tells how his 80-year-old father began getting phone...
by admin | Jan 27, 2011 | Blog
I watched the above video and read the accompanying article from the WSPA Channel 7 website with interest. Apparently, this fellow has been getting collections calls from “at least six” debt collectors on his home phone number for over a year a half. The debt...
by admin | Jan 25, 2011 | Blog
A few days ago, a client mentioned an odd voicemail message he received offering a “tax relief program” in relation to an alleged debt on a credit card he possessed years ago. “Tell me more,” I said. My client related the conversation he had with what turned out to be...
by admin | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog
I love it when slang from the credit and collections industry hits the mainstream news. All of a sudden, everybody who knows that I’m a credit card debt defense lawyer, from the mailman to my Facebook friends, starts asking questions about what they’ve heard on CNN,...
