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		<title>Global Payments Credit Card Data Compromised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although this blog is usually dedicated to educating consumers about credit and collection scams and educating them on how to stop collection calls, today there is a different, but no less important, type of credit news that needs to be brought to the attention of readers. Credit and debit card data from the major card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America Rolls out Suspicious New Pilot Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank of America (BoA) has introduced a test program in certain markets called &#8220;Mortgage to Lease,&#8221; says the Wall Street Journal. It allows BoA mortgage customers facing foreclosure to keep living in their homes by converting them into renters rather than owners. One thousand borrowers in Arizona, Nevada and New York will be able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/debt-scams/bank-of-america-rolls-out-suspicious-new-pilot-program/</link>
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		<title>Chase to Employee: &#8216;Go Along with the Plan to Sell the Misrepresented Asset&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Banker&#8217;s Jeff Horwitz recently put together a fantastic story exposing widespread internal irregularities at Chase regarding its credit card practices. The story is pulled from information gathered from a number of current and former Chase employees. It all began back in 2009 when Chase&#8217;s credit card team sold off credit card judgments valued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/uncategorized/chase-to-employee-go-along-with-the-plan-to-sell-the-misrepresented-asset/</link>
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		<title>How to Write a Cease and Desist Letter for Debt Collectors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you experiencing a high volume of aggressive debt collection calls? Are you constantly asking yourself how to stop collection calls? As a consumer you have rights, especially when it comes to harassing collection phone calls. While you can verbally demand that calls stop, and to keep calling you is indeed harassment under the law, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/uncategorized/how-to-write-a-cease-and-desist-letter-for-debt-collectors/</link>
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		<title>Debt Collectors Using Facebook and Social Media to Contact You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was enacted in 1978, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter did not exist. No one could have anticipated how much of an impact social media would have on our lives but the debt collection industry is taking full advantage of our lives on public display. MSN recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/debt-collection-methods/debt-collectors-using-facebook-and-social-media-to-contact-you/</link>
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		<title>Know Your Rights with Debt Collectors (Eyewitness News)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer attorney Craig Thor Kimmel spoke with Eyewitness News via Skype about consumers&#8217; rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: &#160; PA Home Page posted the video on their website here: Know Your Rights with Debt Collectors]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/fair-debt-collection-practices-act/know-your-rights-with-debt-collectors-eyewitness-news/</link>
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		<title>Asset Acceptance Pays Big for Debt Collection Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what is sure to be considered a major victory for consumers everywhere, the FTC this week ordered Asset Acceptance to pay $2.5 Million in fines. Asset is one of the largest debt collectors / debt buyers in the country. The fines handed out this week certainly send a message that debt collectors should not see themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/AssetAcceptanceSettlement</link>
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		<title>Alleged Collection Mill Agrees To Settle Class Suit Over Cursory Case Handling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hackensack law firm Forster, Garbus &#038; Garbus has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle claims that it filed hundreds of debt collection suits against consumers without individual attorney review. The firm allegedly violated the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 1692e(3), by giving a false impression that an attorney was involved in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/debt-collection-mill-settle-class-suit</link>
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		<title>How to Stop Stale Debt Collection Calls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collection Calls are always a nuisance, but they are even more annoying when they involve a debt that is too old to be collected through a lawsuit. These old debts are the ones where the statute of limitations has long since passed, making them &#8220;stale debts&#8221; as the biz refers to them. Such debt is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.creditlaw.com/debt-harassment-2/how-to-stop-stale-debt-collection-calls/</link>
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		<title>Collection Agency under Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be time to score one for the little guys. The largest purchaser of consumer debts in the United States, Encore Capital Group, is under investigation by regulatory authorities in North Carolina. A recent securities filing by the San Diego-based company revealed that the North Carolina Department of Justice &#8220;issued an investigative demand…to produce [...]]]></description>
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