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Claim your reports online, then review them carefully to see if the debt is listed. Familiarize yourself with the FDCPA . This law prohibits deceptive or abusive practices by debt collectors.
• 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.
Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 582 U.S. ___ (2017), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that a company is not a "debt collector" under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) if it purchased that debt and then attempts to collect from the debtor.
A debt collection bureau in Minnesota. Debt collection or cash collection is the process of pursuing payments of money or other agreed-upon value owed to a creditor. The debtors may be individuals or businesses. An organization that specializes in debt collection is known as a collection agency or debt collector. [1]
The Court held, on a 6–3 vote, in favor of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, ruling that proof of "actual malice" was necessary in product disparagement cases raising First Amendment issues, as set out by the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). The Court ruled that the First Circuit Court of Appeals had ...
The Federal Trade Commission said there were no task scams in 2020, there were 5,000 in 2023 and then task scams quadrupled by the first half of 2024. The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by ...
Court records and police documents, as well as mail left behind at the management office of the Colonial Village apartments in Columbus, offer more insight into how hundreds of Haitian refugees ...
The Washington Post submitted a complaint against Coler's registration of the site with GoDaddy under the UDRP, and in 2015, an arbitral panel ruled that Coler's registration of the domain name was a form of bad-faith cybersquatting (specifically, typosquatting), "through a website that competes with Complainant through the use of fake news ...