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2. How to spot debt collection scams: 8 signs to watch out for

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   8 warning signs of a debt collector scam. Receiving a call, email or letter from a company purporting to be a debt collector can spark alarm. ... If the contact comes from a legitimate debt ...

3. What is a 609 dispute letter? - AOL

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   A 609 dispute letter can help you clean up errors on your credit report. ... Because many creditors and collection agencies buy and sell consumer debt, they don’t always have the substantiating ...

4. Is ‘Pay for Delete’ a Useful Tactic or a Waste of Your Time?

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   Pay for delete is the act of negotiating with the original creditor or a collection agency to have past-due debt — a major drag on your credit score — removed from your credit report in ...

5. Debt validation - Wikipedia

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   Debt validation, or "debt verification", refers to a consumer's right to challenge a debt and/or receive written verification of a debt from a debt collector. The right to dispute the debt and receive validation are part of the consumer's rights under the United States Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and are set out in §809 of that act, which has been codified in Title 15 ...

6. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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   Generally, law enforcement agencies from around the world are interested in scam letters where actual losses incurred upon a victim. Due to the sheer volume of scam letters distributed on the Internet, no law enforcement agency will be in a position to investigate every scam letter reported.

7. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

8. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   A consumer inquires about a payday loan or short-term credit online and is asked for a long list of personal information. The lender is a shell firm; the loan might never be made, but the victim's personal information is now in the hands of scammers who sell it to a fraudulent collection agency.

9. 8 steps to remove old debt from your credit report

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   The seven-year clock begins with the original creditor, not the collection agency. If an old debt remains on your credit report after seven years, file a dispute with the credit bureaus. Bad ...