Collection Complaints
Collection Complaints Hotline (888) 770-7312
Call the hotline if you’ve had a tough time dealing with a collection agency. If your rights have been violated, you could receive compensation of between $1000 and $1500 for their reckless behavior. Just because you are late with a debt does not mean they should harass you or treat you unprofessionally. Turn the tables on mean and nasty collectors, and make them pay. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act clearly defines unacceptable behavior. Below is a list of the types of collection complaints with debt collectors. The list starts with the most common complaint, down to the least common.
Prohibited Actions by Collectors, resulting in Collection Complaints
If a collector has behaved like this, you could be owed up to $1500.
- Demanding larger payments than permitted by law
- Calling repeatedly or continuously
- Repeated calling of friends, relatives or co-workers to find the consumer
- Use of obscene, profane or abusive language
- Falsely threatening to file suit or take other actions they do not intend to take
- Improperly calling consumers' jobs
- Ignoring written notices to cease communication
- Telling others about alleged debts
- Failure to provide notice of debts
- Falsely threatening to arrest consumers or seize property
- Failure to verify disputed debts
- Demanding interest, fees and expenses that were not owed
- Calling before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m.
- Using or threatening to use violence
Source: U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Collection Complaints Hotline (888) 770-7312
When you call the hotline, you’ll connect with an expert on consumer rights regarding the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Describe to them the type of collector you are dealing with, along with the behavior you find offensive. There is no charge to call the Collection Complaints Hotline. Let’s reign in this type of behavior. Fight Back!