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  • 2023
    • November
      • Tribal High-Interest Loans
      • Mandarich Law Group -- debt collection law firm
      • High interest lenders: Mountain Summit Financial.
      • High interest lenders: Biboon d/b/a Bridge Lending Solutions, Big Picture Loans, Crane Finance, East Line Lending, Falcon Fund
      • Are you facing an application for the issuance of a tax deed
      • Internet loans by tribal and other unlicensed lenders to Illinois and Indiana residents
      • Genetic Information Privacy Act
      • FCI Lender Services
      • Zwicker & Associates -- debt collection law firm
      • Meyer Njus Tanick, P.A. (Meyer & Njus) -- debt collection firm
      • Bankers Healthcare Group
      • Spring Oaks Capital suing on a loan involving Pagaya, Blue Ridge Bank, Cross River Bank or WebBank
      • Illinois collection lawyers Kevin Mortell and David Picardat
      • Have you have been required to provide family health history by an Illinois employer?
      • Sir Finance Corporation.
      • Resurgence Legal Group -- debt collection law firm
      • Free consultation -- collection, foreclosure, repossession and credit reporting problems
      • Autovest -- debt buyer
      • Midland Credit Management / Midland Funding -- debt buyer
      • How Can Individuals Protect Themselves from Banking Fraud?
      • Real Time Resolutions (RTR) -- collector of defaulted mortgage and other loans.
      • Are you facing an application for the issuance of a tax deed
      • Craftsman E225 electric riding mower
      • QC Kinetix
      • LVNV Funding and PYOD -- debt buyers
      • Marlette Funding/ Best Egg/ Cross River Bank
      • Helix Financial
      • CFPB and 11 States Order Prehired to Provide Students More than $30 Million in Relief for Illegal Student Lending Practices
      • CFPB Orders Toyota Motor Credit to Pay $60 Million for Illegal Lending and Credit Reporting Misconduct
      • CFPB Fines Repeat Offender Enova $15 Million for Violating Order, Deceiving Customers, and Withdrawing Funds Without Consent
      • CFPB Orders Citi to Pay $25.9 Million for Intentional, Illegal Discrimination Against Armenian Americans
      • What is the statute of limitations on student loans?
      • FTC Action Leads to $18 Million in Refunds for Brigit Consumers Harmed by Deceptive Promises About Cash Advances, Hidden Fees, a
      • Illinois Biometric Identification Privacy Act
      • Resurgent Capital Services -- collection agency
      • SLM Trusts
      • Rock Creek Capital LLC - debt buyer
      • Spring Oaks Capital -- debt buyer
      • Mr. Cooper (Nationstar Mortgage)
      • Propel Holdings Inc. doing business as CreditFresh and MoneyKey
      • Banks and other financial institutions freezing accounts
      • collection attorney Gregory Silverman
      • Student Loan Solutions -- debt buyer and collector specializing in defaulted private student loans
      • Newrez / New Penn Financial / Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing
      • Save Phone Messages and Letters from Debt Collectors
      • Plaza Services, LLC
      • Fraudulent removal of funds from bank and financial institution accounts and prepaid debit cards
      • Credit card company rejects claim of fraud
      • Auto / car / vehicle fraud and warranty problems
      • Crown Asset Managment collecting WebBank loans
      • Dealing with fraudulent debits to checking account
      • Have you been required to provide biometric information
      • Select Portfolio Servicing
      • Cavalry SPV / Cavalry Portfolio Services -- debt buyer
      • Williams & Fudge -- collection agency
      • Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRA) -- debt buyer
      • Why consumers who file actions under federal consumer protection laws, such as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair
      • Weltman, Weinberg & Reis -- debt collection and mortgage foreclosure law firm
      • ARCPE
      • Lloyd & McDaniel -- collection law firm
      • Do you receive prerecorded messages, robocalls, unwanted telemarketing calls, or spam texts?
      • Grassy Sprain Group -- debt buyer
      • Do you receive junk faxes?
      • Have you received calls on your cell phone from debt collectors calling for someone else?
    • October
      • Shindler & Joyce -- debt collection law firm
      • Absolute Resolutions Suing on Loans Involving WebBank
      • Markoff Law -- debt collection firm
      • Absolute Resolutions Investments -- debt buyer
      • Consumer Financial Services, Corporation -- auto finance and consumer lender
      • Mandarich Law Group -- debt collection law firm
      • Heritage Acceptance Corporation -- auto finance company
      • Troy Capital -- debt buyer
      • Blitt & Gaines -- collection law firm
      • Sottile & Barile -- debt collection and mortgage foreclosure law firm
      • Cross River Bank
      • Accelerated Inventory Management, LLC
      • CCFlow line of credit
      • Velocity Investments as alleged assignee of Cross River Bank loan
      • Spring Oaks Capital suing on a loan involving Pagaya, Blue Ridge Bank, Cross River Bank or WebBank
      • Oliphant Financial attempting to collect WebBank loans
      • Capital Community Bank d/b/a CC Flow.
      • Jefferson Capital Systems as assignee of WebBank
      • WebBank
      • Accelerated Inventory Management attempting to collect WebBank loans
      • Midland Credit Management and WebBank
      • LVNV Funding and WebBank
      • Phony business and commercial loans
      • "Tribal lending"
      • Tribal High-Interest Loans
      • Internet loans by tribal and other unlicensed lenders to Illinois and Indiana residents
      • Jefferson Capital Systems suing on motor vehicle retail installment sales contract
      • Jefferson Capital Systems -- debt buyer
      • Netcredit
      • Requiring Repayment of Loan by Electronic Fund Transfer Is Illegal
      • Blue Ridge Bank loans
      • Velocity Investments as alleged assignee of Finwise Bank loan
      • FinWise Bank
      • CFPB Takes Action Against Operator of Sendwave App for Illegally Cheating People on International Money Transfers
      • Hidden fees by restaurants and delivery providers
      • Republic Bank & Trust Company, NetCredit
      • Weekly free credit reports
      • FTC and CFPB Settlement to Require Trans Union to Pay $15 Million over Charges It Failed to Ensure Accuracy of Tenant Screening
      • Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
      • Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
      • Lac Courte Oreille Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
      • CFPB Exams Return $140 Million to Consumers Hit by Illegal Junk Fees in Banking, Auto Loans, and Remittances
      • CFPB Issues Guidance to Halt Large Banks from Charging Illegal Junk Fees for Basic Customer Service
      • Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin
      • Weltman, Weinberg & Reis suing on behalf of UHG I, LLC or Rock Creek Capital
      • UHG I (United Holding Group) -- debt buyer
      • Velocity Investments -- debt buyer
      • What is Predatory Lending?
      • Creditor Harassment
      • Silver Capital Financial dba: CashAmericaToday.com
      • Rosebud Lending LZO d/b/a ZocaLoans or Zoca Loans
    • September
      • Not all business coaches are trying to help you
      • Black Hawk Financial d/b/a  MyFundingChoices.com
      • Can I Close My Bank Account and Try to Make Reasonable Payments on a Tribal Payday Loan Without Being Sued? Should I pay the lo
      • Lendumo
      • Digitally Denied: New Report Examines How Abuse and Bias in Tenant Screening Harm Renters
      • Kenzie Academy income share agreements
      • DNF Associates -- debt buyer
      • Synchrony Bank
      • S.A.I.L., LLC, also known as SAVINGS ACCOUNT INSTALLMENT LOAN LLC
      • Internet loans from ReadySetGoFinance.com or  GeyserLending.com
      • Crown Asset Management -- debt buyer
      • CFPB Report Finds College Tuition Payment Plans Can Put Student Borrowers at Risk
      • Online Shoe Seller Hey Dude, Inc. to Pay $1.95 Million for Violating FTC’s Mail, Internet, and Telephone Order Rule and Suppress
      • FTC Says TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate Deceived Users About Background Report Accuracy, Violated FCRA While Marketing Reports f
      • Please contact us if you have purchased: Walgreens Allergy Eye Drops; Walgreens Stye Eye Drops; Walgreens Pink Eye Drops; CVS He
      • SEC Sues Debt Buyer Phoenix Asset Group
      • CFPB Orders Leasing Company Tempoe to Provide $36 Million in Penalties and Relief for Tricking Consumers and Hiding Contract Ter
      • Loanpal
      • Kinecta Federal Credit Union
      • Service Credit Union
      • Lending Club
      • Upgrade Inc.
      • Connexus Credit Union
      • Upstart Network
      • Financial Partners Credit Union
      • Collins Asset Group
      • Data Breaches and Privacy
    • August
      • Credit and debit card receipts
      • Hotel Junk Fees
      • CFPB Reaches Multibillion Dollar Settlement with Credit Repair Conglomerate
      • Velocity Investments, as alleged assignee of Web Bank loan
      • CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO CREDIT REPORTING
      • Mixed Files on Credit Reports
      • Can’t lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI
      • Fees for payment by credit card, debit card, online, telephone, or electronic transfer
      • Potential Claims and Defenses | Equity Line of Credit Collections Older Than Five Years
      • CFPB Sues Installment Lending Conglomerate for Illegally Churning Loans to Harvest Hundreds of Millions in Loan Costs and Fees
      • CFPB Sues Installment Lending Conglomerate for Illegally Churning Loans to Harvest Hundreds of Millions in Loan Costs and Fees
      • Abusive Collection Practices
      • If you paid a scammer with a gift card, is your money gone? Maybe not
      • Marlette Funding/ Best Egg/ Cross River Bank
      • Predatory Loan Prevention Act -- Illinois reduces interest rates on consumer debts effective March 23, 2021
      • CFPB Penalizes Freedom Mortgage and Realty Connect for Illegal Kickbacks
      • Potential claims: Internet loans
      • Internet Payday Loans
      • Credit Report Disputes
      • Claims you may have: internet loans
      • Please contact us if your bank refuses to honor requests to stop debiting your account
      • Letter you can send to debt collectors to request verification
      • Telephone Calls Seeking Payment of Payday Loans
      • CFPB Sues USASF Servicing for Illegally Disabling Vehicles and for Improper Double-Billing Practices
      • PHH Mortgage and Ocwen Loan Servicing
      • Credit Control -- debt collector
      • Halsted Financial Services, LLC -- collection agency
      • Hillcrest Davidson & Associates -- collection agency
      • Bank of America
      • Citizens Bank
      • EGS Financial Care Inc. -- collection agency
      • First Portfolio Ventures, First Portfolio Ventures II -- debt buyers
      • Credence Resource Management -- debt collector
    • July
      • Illinois Consumer Contract Reciprocal Attorney’s Fees Act
      • Check Your Credit Report Regularly to Nip Trouble in the Bud; Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC will dispute erroneous an
      • Weinstein & Riley, PS
      • Old "Zombie" mortgages, notes and HELOCS
      • Banks' payment of forged or altered checks.
      • ARS National Services -- collection agency
      • NCB Management Services - debt buyer and collection agency
      • Vance & Huffman LLC
      • Migdal Law Group LLP -- debt collection firm
      • National Credit Adjusters -- debt collector
      • National Credit Audit Corporation -- debt collector
      • National Collection Systems, Inc., d/b/a National Credit Management -- collection agency
      • Kohn Law Firm -- debt collection law firm
      • Rushmore Loan Management
      • National Credit Systems, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Advanced Call Center Technologies Inc.
      • Nationwide Cassel, Nationwide CAC
      • Zwicker & Associates -- debt collection law firm
      • State Collection Service
      • CFPB Exams Find Unfair, Deceptive, and Abusive Practices Across a Wide Array of Consumer Financial Product Line
      • Financial Asset Management Systems, Inc.
      • Andrews and Cox, PC d/b/a Bleecker, Brodey & Andrews -- debt collection law firm
      • IQ Data International, Inc. doing business as Rent Collect Global (I Q Data) -- collection agency
      • Mauer & Madoff LLC -- debt collection law firm
      • Credit Repair Organizations Act
      • Knight Adjustment Bureau
      • Sequium Asset Solutions -- collection agency
      • JHPDE Finance / JH Met Subsidiary Liquidating Trust
      • United Collection Bureau, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Mercantile Adjustment Bureau
      • MV Realty
      • Senex Services Corp. -- debt buyer (medical)
      • Merchants & Medical Credit Corporation, Inc. - collection agency
      • Dyck-O'Neal, Inc. -- buyer of defaulted mortgage loans
      • Global Lending Services -- auto finance
      • What is a class action
      • Comenity Bank
      • Reliant Loan Servicing, LLC -- debt collector
      • Great American Finance
      • Car dealers "refinancing" installment purchases of cars
      • CBE Group
      • Chicago Acceptance -- auto finance company
      • Credit Corp Solutions -- debt buyer
      • Can Debt Collectors Call My Family?
      • Suit on second mortgage note or credit agreement after foreclosure on first
      • Tidewater Finance / Tidewater Motor Credit -- auto finance company
      • McCarthy Burgess & Wolff -- debt collection agency
      • Synchrony Bank
      • Debt collectors: Mind the “No Parking” signs on credit reports -- FTC release
      • Oliphant Financial
      • Credit Collection Services -- collection agency
      • Veripro Solutions -- "special servicer" of mortgages
      • First Federal Credit Control, Inc., -- collection agency
      • Webcollex, LLC dba CKS Financial -- debt collector
      • AFNI -- debt buyer and collection agency
      • Servis One, Inc., doing business as BSI Financial Services,
      • Aargon Collection Agency
      • Gateway Financial Services / GFS II -- Auto finance company
      • M&T Bank
      • American Coradius International
      • Deutsche Bank, as trustee
      • CFPB Report Shows Workers Face Risks from Employer-Driven Debt
      • Central Portfolio Control
      • CFPB Sues Snap Finance for Illegally Luring Americans into Expensive Financing and Bullying Borrowers Using False Threats
      • Arstrat, LLC
      • New TCPA rules
      • I Was Used as a Credit Reference by a Friend and Am Now Receiving Collection Calls
      • Collection Professionals -- debt collector that sues in its own name
      • Medical debt under $500 will no longer be reported on credit reports
      • McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC -- debt collection and mortgage foreclosure law firm
      • Prestige Financial Services -- auto finance company
      • Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, dba Christiana Trust, as trustee,
      • Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee
      • Unifund / Unifund CCR -- debt buyer
      • Genesis FS Card Services
      • Commonwealth Financial Systems, Inc
      • Galaxy Asset Purchasing LLC -- debt buyer
      • Autovest -- debt buyer
      • Selene Finance
      • Galaxy International Purchasing -- debt buyer
      • Illinois statutory used car warranty and other warranties on cars
      • Adjustable rate mortgage loans
      • Are you a defendant in a Chicago area collection lawsuit?
      • Harassing Collection Calls
      • Rausch, Sturm, Israel, Enerson & Hornik, LLP -- debt collection law firm
      • Ira T. Nevel & Associates -- foreclosure law firm
      • New Methods of Tracking and Repossessing Cars -- starter interrupts/ ignition shutoffs
      • Johnson Blumberg & Assoc. -- Chicago foreclosure and collection law firm
      • Marinosci Law Group -- debt collection and mortgage foreclosure firm
      • Gurstel Law Firm P.C.
      • Minto Money/ Minto Financial
      • Statute of Limitations; What State's Law Governs
      • Big Picture Loans
      • Unifin, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Fifth Third Bank
      • Illinois Statutes of Limitation – Recent Developments
      • F. H. Cann & Associates -- collection agency
      • First National Collection Bureau -- collection agency
      • Caliber Home Loans
      • COVID -- mortgages coming out of forbearance -- new regulation
      • Optio Solutions LLC d/b/a Qualia Collection Services -- collection agency
      • NAR, Inc. d/b/a North American Recovery or N.A.R. -- collection agency
      • TOWD Point Mortgage Trust
      • Codilis & Associates -- mortgage foreclosure firm
      • Substitution of plaintiffs in Illinois Mortgage Foreclosures
      • Med-1 Solutions
      • JPMorgan Chase
      • Future Finance -- auto finance company
      • Opportunity Financial
      • Radius Global Solutions
      • Loss of Payment by Mortgage Servicer
      • Meyer Njus Tanick, P.A. (Meyer & Njus) -- debt collection firm
      • Convergent Healthcare Recoveries
      • Pronto Finance -- auto finance
      • State Partners and CFPB Sue Prehired For Illegal Student Lending Practice
      • USPS Warns Consumers Against Mailing Checks Due to Fraud Risk
      • Turner Acceptance -- auto finance company
      • Aqua Finance, Inc.
      • Mortgage Default Services, LLC
      • SM LAW, P.C -- collection and mortgage foreclosure law firm
      • AmeriCredit Financial Services -- auto finance
      • IC Systems (I.C. Systems or I. C. Systems) -- collection agency
      • Southwest Credit Systems -- collection agency
      • Atlantic Recovery Solutions
      • Northstar Location Services
      • Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS)
      • 199% Auto Repair, Pet Loans Face Crackdown by DC, States
      • Multiple NSF fees for same item
      • Allegiant Credit Recovery Service
      • NRA Group, LLC dba National Recovery Agency (not affiliated with NRA, LLC or National Recovery Associates)
      • BMO (Harris Bank) zombie mortgages
      • Resurgent Receivables LLC -- debt buyer
      • Westlake Services / Westlake Financial Services
      • Franklin Credit Management -- collection agency
      • Balanced Healthcare Receivables
      • Failure of Bank to Honor Loan Modification
      • PCA Acquisitions V -- debt buyer
      • ProCollect
      • Ally Bank / Ally Financial
      • Medical Collection Suit by Collection Agency
      • Jason S. Harris -- collection attorney
      • OCC Assesses $60 Million Civil Money Penalty Against Bank of America Related to Bank’s Overdraft Program
      • CFPB Takes Action Against Bank of America for Illegally Charging Junk Fees, Withholding Credit Card Rewards, and Opening Fake Ac
      • Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, Inc. (FBCS) -- collection agency
      • Private mortgage insurance
      • CU Recovery
      • Encore Receivable Management
      • Persolve LLC / Persolve Recoveries LLC
      • Hunter Warfield -- collection agency
      • Americollect -- collection agency
      • AllianceOne Receivables Management
      • Regional Recovery Services, Inc.
      • Receivables Performance Management
      • Cross River Bank - solar energy financing
      • North American Recovery -- collection agency
      • Klein, Daday, Aretos, and O'Donoghue LLC -- foreclosure and collection law firm
      • Gotham Collection Services Corporation
      • CFPB Uncovers Illegal Junk Fees on Bank Accounts, Mortgages, and Student and Auto Loans
      • Second Round -- debt buyer
      • J.R.S.-I / JRSI -- debt buyer
      • CKS Prime Investments LLC -- debt buyer
      • LCS Capital -- debt buyer
      • Systems & Services Technologies, Inc. -- collection agency
      • CFPB, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Department of Treasury Launch Inquiry into Costly Credit Cards and
      • RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation
      • CACH -- debt buyer
      • Med Assist calls
      • Planet Home Lending
      • Sorman & Frankel / David J. Frankel -- collection law firm / attorney
      • Personal Finance / Mariner Finance -- auto finance company and consumer lender
      • Opportunity Financial / OppFi / FinWise Bank
      • G. C. Services / GC Services -- collection agency
      • Wakefield & Associates
      • National Enterprise Systems -- debt collector
      • Transworld Systems
      • Discover Bank
      • Everest Receivable Services, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Right to Get out of Car Transaction (None)
      • TD Auto Finance
      • Keynote Consulting, Inc.
      • Westlake Portfolio Management LLC -- auto finance company
      • American General / Springleaf / OneMain Financial Services
      • Regional Acceptance Corporation -- auto finance company
      • Automax Financial / Byrider / Byrider Finance/ CNAC / HZ CNAC -- auto finance
      • Rent-a-bank practices; FinWise Bank, Capital Community Bank, First Electronic Bank; Transportation Alliance Bank (TAB Bank); Rep
      • Salander Enterprises, LLC -- debt buyer
      • Huntington National Bank
      • Exeter Finance -- auto finance
      • Problems with forbearances or payment arrangements upon transfer of mortgage loan to new servicer
      • Kramer & Frank -- collection law firm
      • Bridgecrest Acceptance Corporation
      • Overland Bond -- auto finance company -- and Car Credit Center
      • Down payments on auto finance contracts are legal
      • Conn's (furniture and appliance retailer)
      • Department Stores National Bank
      • U. S. Bank or Elan Financial
      • Miramed -- collection agency
      • Fay Servicing
      • Edgerton & Edgerton -- debt collection law firm
      • SN Servicing (Security National Servicing)
      • Gatestone & Company International -- debt collector
      • Do you receive telemarketing robocalls or spam texts? Telemarketing calls to a number on the "do not call" list?
      • MFG Financial
      • Resurgence Capital -- debt buyer
      • Credit Union Loan Source/ Cinch Auto Finance
      • No Right to Rescind or Cancel Car Purchase
      • United Auto Credit -- auto finance
    • June
      • United Revenue Corporation
      • Alltran Financial or Alltran Education, Inc (formerly United Recovery Systems)
      • Great Seneca Financial Corporation, Centurion Capital Corporation, Platinum Financial Services Corporation, Sage Financial Corpo
      • Citibank
      • Merchants Acceptance Corporation
      • Crescent Bank & Trust
      • Baxter Credit Union
      • TD Bank
      • Merchants Credit Guide Company - collection agency
      • Credico, Inc., d/b/a Credit Collection Bureau
      • Truist Financial / Truist Bank
      • PNC Bank
      • AmerAssist A/R Solutions
      • Convergent Outsourcing / Convergent Receivables Management
      • Tempoe, LLC.
      • Sentry Credit -- collection agency
      • Statute of limitations in Illinois on an equity line of credit (HELOC) is five years, not ten
      • CW Nexus Credit Card Holdings I, LLC,
      • Sunrise Credit -- collection agency
      • KMD Partners, d/b/a CreditNinja
      • ATG Credit
      • Bosco Credit trusts
      • What Is the Statute of Limitations on Credit Card Debt?
      • Right of Spouse to Obtain Credit Individually
      • Liability of Authorized User of Credit Card
      • Is Widow Liable for Late Husband's Credit Cards?
      • Why it is safer to use a credit card than a debit card:
      • HOVG, LLC, doing business as Bay Area Credit Services -- collection agency
      • Great Lakes Credit Union
      • Spouse's Credit Cards
      • Credit Bureau Collection Services (CBCS) -- Collection agency
      • MRS BPO / MRS Associates -- collection agency
      • Creditors Discount & Audit (Unlimited Progress Corp. doing business as Creditors Discount & Audit) -- debt collector
      • North American Credit Services Inc. -- debt collector
      • Credit Management, L.P.
      • Pioneer Credit Recovery
      • Technology Credit Union -- solar energy systems
      • Ford Motor Credit
      • Credit Card Collections
      • Navy Federal Credit Union
      • Penn Credit Corporation
      • CFPB Takes Action Against ACI Worldwide for Illegally Processing $2.3 Billion in Mortgage Payments that Homeowners Did Not Autho
      • TrueAccord
      • Consumer Portfolio Services -- auto finance company
      • Absolute Collections Corp.
      • Bank overdraft and NSF fee practices
      • CBW Bank -- line of credit
      • Wirbicki Law -- mortgage foreclosure firm
      • Sir Finance Corporation.
      • Kluever Law Group (Kluever & Platt) -- collection and foreclosure law firm
      • First Credit Services, Inc. -- debt collector
      • Facts About Collection Lawsuits
      • Changes in Illinois law regarding collection of judgments
      • The Weininger Law Firm LLC
      • Problems opening or maintaining bank account because of reports by ChexSystems, Early Warning Systems
      • Bluechip Financial d/b/a Spotloan and Zestfinance, Inc.
      • CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions, LLC.
      • Goodleap, LLC, formerly known as Loanpal, LLC -- solar financing
      • Caddis Funding -- debt buyer
      • R1 RCM, Inc., d/b/a Medical Financial Solutions -- medical debt collector
      • Broida and Nichele, Ltd. -- collection law firm
      • First Financial Asset Management -- debt buyer
      • Debt Buyer Business Model
      • Can a Bank Account Be Garnished If It's a Joint Account
      • Potestivo & Associates -- foreclosure and collection law firm
      • Pet leasing and high interest pet loans
      • TrueAccord collecting high-interest Internet loans
      • NBT Bank
      • Mages & Price, LLC -- collection law firm
      • EasyPay Finance loan
      • New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust
      • Egan & Alaily LLC -- collection and foreclosure law firm
      • Financial Credit Network -- collection agency
      • SouthLaw -- collection law firm
      • The Bureaus / Bureaus Investment Group Portfolio No. 15 -- debt buyer
      • High-Interest Loans Affecting Credit
      • U S Bank, as trustee
      • Nationwide Credit, Inc. - collection agency
      • State Farm Bank
      • LOGS Legal Group / Shapiro, Kreisman & Associates -- foreclosure and collection law firm
      • RCS Recovery Services -- debt buyer
      • First Financial Investment Fund -- debt buyer
      • Opichi d/b/a Evergreen Services.
      • WLCC Lending JEM d/b/a Explore Credit.
      • Eagle Valley Ventures d/b/a Eagle Valley Lending
      • Tenant and employment background check reports
      • NCSPlus Incorporated
      • Ascend Loans.
      • Layma d/b/a Little Lake Lending
      • Credit Cube.
      • Uprova
      • Opichi Funds d/b/a eLoan Warehouse
      • First Resolution Investment Corporation
      • Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake
      • Statebridge
      • Amsher Collection Services, Inc.
      • Lakeview Loan Servicing
      • Willow Creek Financial Group -- debt buyer
      • Chase Receivables
      • Makes Cents, Inc., doing business as MaxLend
      • Creditbox.com
      • Lender Legal
      • Security Credit Services
      • Account Receivable Technologies, Inc. d/b/a First Credit Services, Inc.,
      • Eagle Lending, LLC d/b/a Fineday Funds
      • Uetsa Tsakits, Inc.,  d/b/a MaxLend
      • Bridge Lending.
      • Reliant Capital Solutions, LLC -- collection agency
      • Elastic Credit
      • Finwise Bank loans
      • ICUL Service Corporation, d/b/a Creditors Resource Service -- collection agency
      • Dimand Walinski Law Offices, P.C.
      • Bank's Right of SetOff
      • C. Tech Collections -- collection agency
      • CF Medical, LLC -- debt buyer
      • Regions Bank
      • LTD Financial Services -- collection agency
      • Phoenix Capital -- debt buyer
      • Jacobs & Pinta -- foreclosure and collection law firm
      • The Auto Warehouse and Easy Acceptance, Inc. -- auto finance
      • Capital Credit and Collection Service, Inc.
      • Razor Capital -- debt buyer
      • CA, CT, DC Issue Orders Against Fintech Payday Loans that Solicit “Tips”
      • Mortgage company problems
      • Van Ru Credit -- collection agency
      • First Investors -- debt buyer
      • M3 Financial Services, Inc. -- collection agency
      • LoanCare Servicing
      • Fair Collections & Outsourcing -- collection agency
      • Professional Bureau of Collections of Maryland, Inc. -- collection agency
      • D&A Services, LLC -- collection agency
      • Ventus Capital / Ventus Holding -- debt buyer
      • You may be entitled to a refund when you trade a car in
      • Escallate, LLC
      • Cascade Capital / Cascade Capital Funding/ Cascade  Receivables Management -- debt buyer
      • Global Credit & Collection -- collection agency
      • Potential Claim | Are Debt Buyers Attempting to Collect Money From You
      • Valentine & Kebartas -- collection agency
      • Greater Chicago Finance -- auto finance company
      • General Motors (GM) Flex Fuel (E 85) vehicles
      • Beware of Medical Credit Cards
      • Technology Credit Union
      • Has a debt collector reported a debt to a credit bureau without first notifying you?
      • Tek Collect -- collection agency
      • Associated Credit Services, Inc. - collection agency
      • Some suggestions to consumers about hiring a lawyer to defend a debt collection or foreclosure case
      • How Long Does a Credit Card Company Have to Come After You for Money You Owe Them?
      • Pinnacle Credit Services, LLC
      • Monarch Recovery Management -- collection agency
      • Medical Data Systems
      • Bank of North Dakota
      • USAA Savings Bank and USAA Federal Savings Bank
      • Dovenmuehle Mortgage Inc.
      • Dynamic Recovery Solutions -- collection agency
      • Wahido Lending d/b/a River Valley Loans
      • Cedars Business Services, LLC -- collection agency
      • Cenlar, FSB d/b/a Central Loan Administration & Reporting
      • High interest lenders: Biboon d/b/a Bridge Lending Solutions, Big Picture Loans, Crane Finance, East Line Lending, Falcon Fund
      • W6LS, Inc. d/b/a WithU Loans
      • Franklin Collection Services -- collection agency
      • Western Funding -- auto finance company
      • Medicredit -- collection agency
      • Nationwide Credit & Collection, Inc. (NCC) -- collection agency
      • CCB Credit Services, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Computer Credit, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Premiere Credit of North America -- collection agency
      • NDF1 -- mortgage debt buyer
      • Statute of limitations on bank overdraft
      • Capital Accounts, LLC -- debt collector
      • Automobile Acceptance -- auto finance
      • Foursight Capital -- auto finance
      • Greater Suburban Acceptance (GSAC) -- auto finance company
      • Vehicle repossessions and deficiencies
      • Black Hawk Financial d/b/a MyFundingChoices.com
      • Capital Management Services, LP
      • CFPB Takes Action Against Phoenix Financial Services for Illegal Medical Debt Collection and Credit Reporting Practices
      • Arch MI/ United Guaranty Residential Insurance Company / United Guaranty Commercial Insurance Company
      • Interest and fees on residential mortgage loans
      • Credit Acceptance Corp. -- auto finance
      • Automotive Credit Corporation -- auto finance
      • American Credit Acceptance -- auto finance
      • Navient
      • Avid Acceptance -- auto finance company
      • Wells Fargo
      • Flagship Credit Acceptance - auto finance
      • DriveTime Acceptance
      • Rocket Mortgage f/k/a Quicken Loans
      • CA, CT, DC Issue Orders Against Fintech Payday Loans that Solicit “Tips”
      • SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency
      • American Credit Systems, Inc.
      • CFPB Report Highlights Costly Credit Cards and Loans Pushed on Patients
      • CFPB Finds that Billions of Dollars Stored on Popular Payment Apps May Lack Federal Insurance
      • Rushmore Service Center
    • May
      • CFPB Orders Installment Lender OneMain to Pay $20 Million for Deceptive Sales Practices
      • Frontline Asset Strategies
      • Caine & Weiner Company, L.L.C.
      • collection attempts on finance contracts for Pink Energy/ Power Home Solar systems
      • Aldridge Pite Haan, LLP / Aldridge Pite, LLP
      • Asset Recovery Solutions, LLC -- collection agency
      • Alliance Data Systems Corporation
      • Illinois administrative adjudication procedures
      • Revco Solutions Inc. -- collection agency
      • Strategic Resource Alternatives (SRA Associates), formerly known as Ceteris Portfolio Services
      • Manley Deas Kochalski LLC -- debt collection and mortgage foreclosure firm
      • Auto leases
      • Transworld (collection agency) / SSM Health
      • Potential claims and defenses: mortgage companies
      • Client Services -- collection agency
      • Harvard Collection Services -- collection agency
      • RGS Financial
      • CFPB Issues Guidance to Protect Homeowners from Illegal Collection Tactics on Zombie Mortgages
      • Americash
      • Vive Financial LLC, formerly known as Dent-A-Med Inc, doing business as HC Processing Center
      • High interest lenders: Mountain Summit Financial.
      • Extent of Security Interest
      • Illinois Equity Cash Line Mortgage
      • Crane Lending, LLC d/b/a Crane Finance.
      • Makwa Finance.
      • Swift Financial Services
      • Heritage Acceptance, Pelican Auto Finance, JRSI -- auto finance
      • GreatPlains Finance, LLC d/b/a Cash Advance Now
      • CFPB Action to Require Citizens Bank to Pay $9 Million Penalty for Unlawful Credit Card Servicing
      • CMRE Financial -- debt collector
      • foreclosure suits by mortgage trust or trustee
      • Mortgage Asset Management trusts
      • Syndicated Office Systems d/b/a Central Financial Control
      • Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage
      • Advanced Portfolio Group, LLC
      • Pendrick Capital Partners
      • Source Receivables Management, LLC
      • Healthcare Receivables Group
      • Greenlight
      • Alliance Collection Agencies Inc.
      • Oglala Sioux Tribe
      • Grant & Weber, Inc.
      • Actions to collect deficiencies on motor vehicle retail installment contracts
      • New circular addresses illegal “reopening” of deposit accounts that can hit consumers with junk fees
      • Liability for Debts of Parent
    • April
      • Chime Financial
      • Financial Recovery Services
      • Constar Financial Services, LLC
      • Monterey Financial Services, LLC
      • Trustmark Recovery Services
      • Requiring use of manufacturer's consumables
      • Greens400, LLC
      • Plain Green, LLC
      • ZenResolve
      • Midaaswi, LLC, doing business as National Small Loan.
      • First Loan.
      • Niizhwaaswi, LLC d/b/a Loan at Last
      • MitigCapital.
      • West Side Lending
      • Target Finance d/b/a Target Cash Now.
      • Fox Hills Cash
      • East Line Lending.
      • First Day Loans
      • Potential claims and defenses: collection agencies and collection / foreclosure attorneys
      • Northern Star Lending, LLC.
      • NextLoan
      • Stop payment orders on checks.
      • General Revenue Corporation
      • Younomics Private Student Loan Trust
      • Waawaatesi LLC d/b/a Greenline Loans
      • Community Loan Servicing, f/k/a Bayview Loan Servicing
      • Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP
      • Firstsource Advantage
      • Revival of judgments -- defenses
      • Potential claims and defenses: student loans
      • SoloSuit
      • New collection defense book
      • World Credit
      • AR Resources -- collection agency
      • Allied Account Services -- collection agency
      • Viking Client Services -- collection agency
      • Massachusetts Attorney General In $7.6 Million Settlement With Toyota Credit
      • CFPB Issues Guidance to Address Abusive Conduct in Consumer Financial Markets
    • March
      • Credigy Receivables
      • EOS CCA Collecto
      • New Illinois statute of limitations on municipal ordinance violations
      • Does the statute of limitations restart?
      • Statute of Limitations, Check Penalty
      • Illinois Statutes of Limitations
      • Statute of Limitations on Bad Check in Illinois
      • Northstar Capital
      • First American National, LLC
      • Credit Reporting Agencies Announce Changes to Medical Debt Credit Reporting
      • Bank of Kendall -- line of credit
      • Diversified Adjustment Service
      • Have you lost money through Zelle or similar payment systems?
      • Bank of Orrick -- line of credit
      • CFPB Orders Repeat Offender Portfolio Recovery Associates to Pay More Than $24 Million for Continued Illegal Debt Collection Pra
      • Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” Recurring Subscriptions and
      • CFPB Enhances Tool to Promote Competition and Comparison Shopping in Credit Card Market
      • Companies that make it unreasonably difficult to cancel services
      • Financial Network Recovery
      • Forest Recovery Services
      • Sentry Recovery & Collections, Inc
      • Vital Recovery Services, Inc.
      • Debt Recovery Solutions, LLC
      • Direct Recovery Services
      • TRS Recovery Services, Inc.,
      • Arcadia Recovery Bureau
      • Fedchex Recovery LLC d/b/a FCR Collection Services,
      • Key 2 Recovery, Inc
      • Diversified Recovery Bureau
      • Admin Recovery, LLC
      • Alpha Recovery Corp
      • Goldman Sachs Bank
      • American Recovery Services, Inc.
      • Professional Recovery Consultants
      • Eastpoint Recovery Group
      • Healthcare Financial Resources
      • Can defect claims be asserted against the finance company holding a retail installment contract?
      • Capital One
      • Judgments against employees based on service on employer
      • SSI Group d/b/a Receive Revenue Recovery
      • Healthcare Revenue Recovery Group, LLC doing business as ARS Account Resolution Services
      • Nationwide Recovery Systems
      • CFPB Issues Guidance to Protect Mortgage Borrowers from Pay-to-Play Digital Comparison-Shopping Platforms
      • CFPB and NLRB Announce Information Sharing Agreement to Protect American Consumers and Workers from Illegal Practices
      • Enhanced Recovery Company (ERC)
      • Rent Recovery Solutions
      • Receivables Management Systems
    • February
      • Global Solution Biz, LLC
      • Sterling Jewelers d/b/a Kay Jewelers and Jared the Galleria of Jewelry
      • Miller and Steeno, P.C. -- debt collection firm
      • Arrowood Indemnity Company
      • CFPB Orders TitleMax to Pay a $10 Million Penalty for Unlawful Title Loans and Overcharging Military Families
      • Circleback Lending/  Market Place Trust / Marketplace Loan Grantor Trust or Grassy Sprain Group
      • Palisades Collection and Palisades Acquisition
      • Nationwide Recovery Service, Inc.
      • SoFi Lending Corporation
      • Capital Asset Management Inc.
      • Wellington Capital Partners
      • SoFi Student Loans
      • I Just Received a Summons on Some Medical Bills That I Couldn't Pay
      • Receivable Management Group Inc.
      • Prompt Payment of Checks
      • Orion Capital Solutions, LLC
      • Alliant Capital Management
      • Receivables Management Partners, LLC
      • First Select
      • International Computer Systems, Inc. d/b/a First Collection Services
      • Global Trust Management or Reel Time Capital LLC
      • Medical Business Bureau / Mock Holding Company
      • Prosper Funding
      • IQor Global Services, LLC.
      • Illinois wage assignments
      • CFPB Proposes Rule to Rein in Excessive Credit Card Late Fees
      • FMA Alliance
    • January
      • Investment Retrievers
      • Professional Claims Bureau, Inc.
      • CashApp
      • Carson Smithfield
      • Receivables Management Services, LLC
      • Receipt of Summons Intended for Someone Else.
      • Starter interrupt devices
      • CFPB Issues Guidance to Root Out Tactics Which Charge People Fees for Subscriptions They Don’t Want
      • Windham Professionals, Inc.
      • Avant
      • AmeriHome
      • Consumer Adjustment Company, Inc. d/b/a CACI
      • CFPB Takes Action to Halt Debt Collection Mill From Bombarding Consumers with Junk Lawsuits
      • Huntington Debt Holding, LLC
      • American Express
      • Harris & Harris (Arnold Scott Harris)
      • CFPB and New York Attorney General Sue Credit Acceptance for Hiding Auto Loan Costs, Setting Borrowers Up to Fail
      • Allied Interstate
      • Allied Collection Services, Inc.
  • 2022
    • December
      • Apple Recovery Services Corp.
      • Columbia Debt Recovery
      • Foster and Monroe LLC
      • Do not deposit checks and remit part of the proceeds.
      • Motor club membership
      • GPS tracking or starter interrupt device
      • Landlord's attorneys fees -- Chicago residential property
      • CFPB Advisory Opinion on Inconsistent and Illogical Information on Credit Reports
      • Medical Bill That Was Supposed to Be Submitted by the Hospital to My Health Insurance Company
      • Solar energy contracts
      • CFPB Orders Wells Fargo to Pay $3.7 Billion for Widespread Mismanagement of Auto Loans, Mortgages, and Deposit Accounts
      • Pink Energy, f/k/a Power Home Solar.
      • Continental Service Group, Inc., d/b/a ConServe
      • Sunrun, formerly Vivint Solar
      • American Web Loans
      • SIMM Associates collecting internet loans
      • Private student loan litigation
      • Synergetic Communication, Inc.
      • Yo-Yo Purchase of Car
      • Ringless voicemail
      • CFPB Finds Members of the Reserves and National Guard Paying Millions of Dollars in Extra Interest Each Year
      • Capio Partners
    • November
      • American Accounts & Advisors Inc.
      • Beware of buying used cars from out-of-state sellers
      • Auto loan Not Paid off Within Stated Term
      • Sued in Another State
      • wrongful foreclosure
      • Liability for Medical Debts
      • Vista Hospital/ Medical Center and Midwest Emergency Physicians
      • Bureau Of Medical Economics
      • Parent's Medical Bills
      • Problems with medical debt collection
      • Medical Expenses of Child
      • FCC ruling on ringless voicemail
      • Tate and Kirlin Associates, Inc.
      • CFPB Takes Action Against Carrington Mortgage for Cheating Homeowners out of CARES Act Rights
      • CFPB Reports Highlight Problems with Tenant Background Checks
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau circular on nursing home debts
      • SMS Financial
      • Sacor Financial
      • Phoenix Financial Services LLC -- debt collector
      • Carvana
      • Vroom
      • Threats from Debt Collector
      • AAA Checkmate LLC
      • New Predatory Mortgage Lending and Servicing book (2022)
      • Frost-Arnett Co. -- debt collector
      • Connecticut consent order with TrueAccord for collecting usurious loans
    • October
      • Mediators and arbitrators do not call people to collect debts
      • CFPB Issues Guidance to Help Banks Avoid Charging Illegal Junk Fees on Deposit Accounts
      • Federal Trade Commission Explores Rule Cracking Down on Junk Fees
      • Full Circle Financial
      • CFPB Case against Active Network
      • NPAS Solutions, LLC
      • Professional Debt Mediation
      • North Carolina Attorney General settles with debt collectors Turtle Creek Assets and Royal Park Holdings
      • Debt buyers Encore Capital Group, Inc., Midland Funding LLC, Midland Credit Management, Inc., and Atlantic Credit and Finance, I
      • Arrow Financial Services
      • IDT Carmel
      • OSI Funding
      • Capstone Financial
      • Liability for Adult Child's Medical Debts
      • Alpine Capital Investments LLC
      • Delayed Medical Bill
      • 11th Cir. Holds Disclosing Consumer Information To Third Party Letter Vendors Violates FDCPA
      • University Accounting Service
      • H&R Accounts, Inc.
      • L. J. Ross Associates, Inc.
    • September
      • Phillips & Cohen Associates
      • Capital Link Management LLC
      • Nextgear Capital -- auto finance company
      • Glass Mountain Capital LLC
      • CFPB Sues MoneyLion for Overcharging Servicemembers and Trapping Consumers in Costly Membership
      • CFPB Orders Regions Bank to Pay $191 Million for Illegal Surprise Overdraft Fees
      • Mass. AG Reaches $12M Settlement With Midland Credit and related entities
      • Bringing Dark Patterns to Light
      • Optimum Outcomes, Inc.
      • USCB America
      • LSF and Caliber Home Loans
      • Turtle Creek Assets, Ltd.
      • Loan modifications
      • CFPB Study Details the Rapid Growth of “Buy Now, Pay Later” Lending
      • Steven J. Fink & Associates -- debt collection law firm
      • FTC orders Credit Karma to halt deceptive “pre-approved” credit offers
    • August
      • Walmart 30TB portable SSD for $39
      • Unsolicited credit cards from US Bank
      • Amerifinancial Solutions, LLC
      • Midstate Collection Solutions, Inc.
      • Highlights of the new student loan relief plan announced August 24, 2024
      • Activate Financial
      • Common questions about Illinois exemptions
      • Liability for Parent's Debts
      • State Attorneys General sue Mariner Finance
      • Cawley & Bergmann, LLC -- debt collector
      • Liability of Children for Debts of Parents
      • Municipal Collections Of America, Inc.
      • Trinity Financial Services
      • Chicago debt collector Harris & Harris added to Washington State Attorney General lawsuit
      • Rozlin Financial Group, Inc.
      • GLA Collection Company
      • CFPB investigation of Goldman Sachs Bank
      • Scam collection calls on old loans
      • Global Payment Check Services, Inc.
      • Global Debt Solutions
    • July
      • Calls from "Process Server"
      • CFPB Moves to Reduce Junk Fees Charged by Debt Collectors -- Advisory opinion explains that most “pay-to-pay” fees charged by
      • CFPB Fines U.S. Bank $37.5 Million for Illegally Exploiting Personal Data to Open Sham Accounts for Unsuspecting Customers
      • CFPB Orders Hyundai to Pay $19 Million for Widespread Credit Reporting Failures
      • Dakota Nutrition, Inc.
      • Suisse Bancorp
      • CHECKADVANCEUSA.NET
      • Midwest Fidelity
      • STATE OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCES NEW GUIDANCE PROHIBITING UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE OVERDRAFT AND NON-SUFFICIENT FUND FEES
      • CFPB Sues ACE Cash Express for Concealing No-Cost Repayment Plans and Improperly Withdrawing Consumers’ Funds
      • Liability for Lost Debit Card
      • Lost note affidavits
      • CFPB Orders Bank of America to Pay $10 Million Penalty for Illegal Garnishments
      • Assetcare
      • OneMain Financial Group
      • National Collegiate Student Loan
      • Mobiloans
      • Federal student loans -- income based repayment plans
      • Student loan issues
      • LoanMart
    • June
      • FTC sues Walmart
      • PROPOSED FTC TRADE REGULATION RULE ON AUTO DEALER SALES PRACTICES
      • Contract Callers Inc.
      • Consumer Collection Management, Inc.,
      • Messerli & Kramer
      • Noonan & Lieberman
      • Barr Management
      • Marking Check "Payment in Full" or the like
      • Friendly Finance
      • JSL Funding Group, LLC
      • Nicholas Financial -- auto finance company
      • US Asset Management
      • SIMM Associates
      • Trident Asset Management
      • Rentgrow, Inc
      • Nobilis Credit Management, LLC
    • May
      • Qualified Written Requests
      • CFPB Acts to Protect the Public from Black-Box Credit Models Using Complex Algorithms
      • CFPB Moves to Thwart Illegal Auto Repossessions
      • Dividend Finance -- solar energy finance
      • Personify Financial /  First Electronic Bank
      • AMCOL Systems, Inc
      • Coast Professional
      • CFPB Issues Advisory Opinion on Coverage of Fair Lending Laws -- Equal Credit Opportunity Act continues to protect borrowers
      • Personal Liability of Owner of Administratively Dissolved Corporation
      • That text, email or DM message may be from a debt collector
      • Depleted all of my funds with out notifying me. Can they do that?
    • April
      • Income Share Agreements as Loans
      • Texas Attorney General Pax­ton Files Law­suit Against Vroom Alleging Decep­tive Trade Practices
      • CFPB announcement re surprise medical bills
      • Currency exchanges
      • KOP Collection Services
      • Illegal Dog Leasing Case
      • Verge Credit or Curo or Stride Bank
      • CFPB Charges TransUnion and Senior Executive John Danaher with Violating Law Enforcement Order
      • Credit Collection Partners
      • Federal Trade Commission and Illinois Attorney General Take Action Against Chicago-Area Car Dealer Napleton
    • March
      • New York Attorney General settlement with Fareportal
      • Komyatte & Casbon
      • Consumer Advocates Cheer Removal of Most Medical Debt from Credit Reports
      • Allgate Financial, LLC
      • CFPB Targets Unfair Discrimination in Consumer Finance
      • Accounts Receivable Management, Inc.
      • DCM Services
      • Business Revenue Systems, Inc.,
      • Oliver Adjustment Company
      • CFPB Estimates $88 Billion in Medical Bills on Credit Reports
    • February
      • Illinois Collections
      • The Money Source, Inc.,
      • Santander settlement with Massachusetts Attorney General
      • Debt collection scams
      • IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ILLINOIS COLLECTION CASES
      • CFPB Steps Up Scrutiny of Student Loan Servicers That Deceive Borrowers About Public Service Loan Forgiveness
      • CFPB Takes Action to Halt Prepaid Card Providers Siphoning Government Benefits
      • CFPB ISSUES BULLETIN TO PREVENT UNLAWFUL MEDICAL DEBT COLLECTION AND CREDIT REPORTING
      • DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ATTORNEY GENERAL RACINE ANNOUNCES NEARLY $4 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH PREDATORY ONLINE LENDER THAT WILL COMPE
      • First Contact, LLC
    • January
      • Quality Recovery Services, Inc.
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Initiative to Save Americans Billions in Junk Fees -- Agency Seeks Public Input o
      • I bought a car with accident damage
      • Illinois Lending
      • Centerone Financial Services LLC
      • InvestiNet, LLC
      • Avadyne Health
      • CFPB Sues United Holding Group, Its Affiliates, And Its Owners
      • Stenger & Stenger
      • Coinbase
      • Valor Intelligent Processing, LLC
      • CFPB RELEASES REPORT DETAILING CONSUMER COMPLAINT RESPONSE DEFICIENCES OF THE BIG THREE CREDIT BUREAUS
      • Misleading out-of-network health care billing
      • Credit Protection Association
      • Creditors Rights
      • Minnesota Department of Commerce secures refunds to Minnesota consumers through settlement with online lender MoneyLion
      • Northwest Collectors
  • 2021
    • December
      • RSI Enterprises
      • Creditors' Protection Service, Inc.
      • Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust
      • Sale of Auto Finance Contract
      • Spire Recovery Solutions LLC
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opens inquiry into “buy now, pay later” credit
      • B&B Funding
      • Overdraft fees
      • Auto Deficiency
      • BCG Equities -- debt buyer
      • CFPB on overdraft fees
      • Illinois Attorney General settlement with Internet lenders
      • Warning from Federal Trade Commission about fake check scams
      • CFPB -- Understand how the CFPB’s Debt Collection Rule impacts you
    • November
      • Social Security scams
      • American Credit Bureau, Inc.
      • Debtsy, Inc
      • Dangers of buy now, pay later plans
      • Major car rental companies renting "stolen" cars
      • Medical liens
      • Municipal Collection Services Inc
      • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
      • Meridian Financial Services Inc
      • Things You Should Never Say to a Debt Collector
      • Sarma Collections
      • The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act -- Overview
      • Automated Collection Services, Inc.
      • Brite Financial Services
      • Creditors Bureau USA
      • Recovery Management Solutions LLC
      • Synchrony Bank To Pay $3.5M To Settle Debt Collections Lawsuit
      • Improper dunning of veterans for medical debt
      • CFPB Takes Action to Stop False Identification by Background Screeners
      • car dealer practices
      • CTF Asset Management
      • CFPB Takes Action to Prevent Avoidable Foreclosures
      • JH Liquidating Trust and JH CX Liquidating Trust
      • NetCollections LLC
      • Commercial Acceptance Company
      • FTC  --  Amazon tops list of impersonated businesses
      • Indebted USA, Inc
      • American Management Services, Inc.
      • Federal Communications Commission Reassigned Numbers Database
      • Land Home Financial Services, Inc.
    • October
      • American Advisors Group -- CFPB order
      • Vander Financial, LLC -- collection agency
      • Blue Cross Blue Shield
      • What Should You Do If Being Sued for Deficiency on a Repossessed Car After 4 Years?
      • Attempts to Collect Settled Debt.
      • Improper disclosure of private information by debt collectors
      • Account Management Resources, LLC
      • Margraf Collection Agency, Inc.,
      • Gulf Coast Collection Bureau, Inc. -- collection agency
      • Premature Debits by Debt Collector
      • Coastal Settlement Recovery, Inc.,
      • Vengroff Williams, Inc.
      • Rash Curtis & Associates
      • Option One
      • If a Spouse Incurs Credit Card Debt in His Name Only, Is His Wife Ever Responsible for That Debt?
    • September
      • FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT ISSUES
      • Source Solutions Management LLC
      • Delta Management Associates, Inc.,
      • Century Debt Solutions, Inc.
      • Logicoll, LLC
      • Law Office of Fedor Kozlov, P.C
      • NSF fees
      • Genpact Services (Cora Collections) -- collection agency
      • Vision Financial Services
      • OCC Assesses $250 Million Civil Money Penalty, Issues Cease and Desist Order Against Wells Fargo
      • Singer Law Group
      • Burke Costanza & Carberry
      • Automobile Debt
    • August
      • Right of Car Dealer to Repossess Car
      • If I Have a Judgment Placed Against Me Can They Seize My Personal Bank Accounts?
      • Quarry Mortgage Trust / Cornerstone Quarry Trust
      • Auto Dealer Asks Consumer to Submit False Information to Bank
      • American Eagle Bank
      • Medical Debt Soars
      • Timeshare financing
    • July
      • CFPB rental assistance finder
      • RNS Servicing, LLC
      • Return of Repossessed Vehicle After Reinstatement
      • CVI LCF Mortgage Loan trusts
      • FTC settlement with LendingClub
      • CSMC mortgage trusts
      • CFPB Action Against GreenSky
      • Mountain Run Collections
      • CFPB Finalizes COVID-19 Mortgage Rules
    • June
      • Beware of deferred interest promotions on credit cards
    • May
      • Honor Finance
      • Massachusetts sues Credit Acceptance Corporation
    • April
      • Mr. Cooper withdrawals
      • CFPB Regulation regarding COVID eviction protections
      • Further COVID-19 relief from mortgage foreclosures
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule on tenant evictions and liability of debt collectors who fail to comply
      • CFPB Takes Action Against SettleIt, Inc. for Steering Consumers into High-Cost Loans
      • Illinois extension of garnishment restrictions
      • Free trial offers
      • FAMSA
      • Pinnacle Recovery, Inc.,
      • Sued or Dunned on a National Collegiate Student Loan Trust Private Loan?
      • Eagle Accounts Service
    • March
      • Ncslt - National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts (Update)
      • National Collegiate Private Student Loans (updated)
      • Weekly credit reports extended
    • February
      • Additional COVID mortgage relief
      • NetSpend
      • CVI SGP-CO Acquisition Trust -- debt buyer
      • Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Announces Extension of COVID-19 Forbearance and Foreclosure Protections for Homeowners | The Wh
      • Never, ever pay in gift cards
      • Warning re peer to peer (P2P) payment applications
      • FTC Acts to Ban Payday Lender From Industry, Forgive Illegal Debt
      • Icon Equities -- debt buyer
    • January
      • My Vehicle Got Repossessed Last Week
      • Collection of Kohl's store credit cards
      • Can Secured Creditor Obtain Vehicle from Police?
      • Liability of Cosigners When Car Repossessed
      • Can Lender Refuse Payment
  • 2020
    • December
      • Zombie Debt
      • CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU SETTLES WITH STUDENT LOAN SERVICERS DISCOVER BANK, THE STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION, AND DISCOV
      • CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU SETTLES WITH SANTANDER CONSUMER USA INC. FOR CREDIT REPORTING VIOLATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH
      • CFPB settlement with Seterus (Kyanite)
      • Seterus / Kyanite Services, Inc.
      • Buyers and servicers of defaulted mortgages ("nonperforming mortgages")
      • Tenant Background Report Provider Settles FTC Allegations that it Failed to Follow Accuracy Requirements for Screening Reports
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Case against RAB Performance Recoveries
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Attorney General settlement with Nationstar (Mr. Cooper).
      • Gregory Funding
      • Dorian B. Lasaine & Assoc. -- debt collection firm
      • COVID-19: extension of foreclosure and eviction moratorium on certain loans
    • November
      • CFPB settlement with AFNI
      • Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust
      • Matawin Ventures Trust
      • Avoid scam debt collectors -- use your collection rights.
    • October
      • Threats of Criminal Charges for Unpaid Debt
      • Revival of judgments
      • Account Control Technology, Inc.
      • FTC Acts to Shut Down Unlawful Debt Collection Operation
      • CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU SETTLES LAWSUIT WITH DEBT COLLECTORS AND DEBT BUYERS ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP, MIDLAND FUNDING,
      • Florida Attorney General Moody Secures More Than $11 Million to Address Ocwen Mortgage Servicing and Foreclosure Issues
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Settles with Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation for Illegal Collections and Repossession P
      • One Advantage, LLC
      • Ability Recovery Services, LLC
      • Alorica, Inc.,
      • Equian, LLC,
      • COVID-19 and car purchases
      • OLA & Associates
      • John M. Gara -- debt collection attorney
      • Action Collection Service, Inc.
      • HSBC
      • CreditOne, LLC
      • Prime Recovery LLC
      • MSCB, Inc.
      • iEnergizer, Inc
    • September
      • Bergstrom Law, Ltd. -- collection law firm
      • Columbia Collection Service, Inc.,
      • Corvee, Inc. d/b/a Sacopulos, Johnson & Sacopulos
      • Trunkett & Trunkett
      • Malcolm S. Gerald & Associates, Inc.
      • Settlement by New York Attorney General regarding National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts
      • CFPB sues Midland again
      • Account Resolution Corporation
      • Travel insurance
    • August
      • Dangers of joint purchase of cars and other property
      • COVID-19; Extension of foreclosure and eviction moratorium on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA mortgages
      • COVID-19; extension of garnishment moratorium in Illinois
      • AWA Collections
      • CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT WITH TD BANK FOR ILLEGAL OVERDRAFT PRACTICES
      • Class certification granted in King v. State Farm
      • Someone Has Stolen My Identity
      • Old City of Chicago water bills and other debts
      • Heavner Beyers & Mihlar LLC
      • Emergency response charges
      • Conduent
      • Do You Have to Sign for a Summons?
    • July
      • CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU FILES SUIT AGAINST CHICAGO MORTGAGE CREDITOR FOR DISCRIMINATORY MORTGAGE-LENDING PRACTICES
    • June
      • Entry of Judgment After Payment Plan Agreed to
      • COVID 19 and credit reporting of student loans
      • COVID-19; Mortgage relief because of coronavirus outbreak
      • COVID-19; problems with mortgage forbearances
      • WhyNot Leasing
      • COVID-19 and refund / cancellation policies -- tuition, tickets, etc.
      • COVID-19 and credit reporting
      • Nelnet
      • COVID-19 and Illinois state court dates
      • Has a nursing home taken your stimulus check?
      • Challenging Illinois Judgments
    • May
      • Specialized Loan Servicing -- CFPB order
      • Warning to small businesses applying for COVID-19 loans
      • COVID-19 and shakeup in the debt collection industry
      • COVID-19 and refunds
      • Potential claims: Kay Jewelers, Jared The Galleria of Jewelry, JB Robinson Jewelers, and others
    • April
      • Charges for college tuition, room and board that is not being provided
      • Efron & Efron, P.C.
      • Illinois collection proceedings have been suspended and the "wildcard" exemption will be allowed automatically for the duration
      • Department of Education Action on Student Loans during Coronavirus Outbreak
    • March
      • Receivables Management Association International (RMAI) and the Credit and Collections Industry Introduce Hardship Provisions fo
      • FDA alerts consumers about unauthorized fraudulent COVID-19 test kits
      • Petland Naperville, Chicago Ridge, Rockford
    • February
      • A Debt Collector Got My New Cell Phone Number.
      • Worldwide Asset Purchasing
      • Cosigner on Student Loan
    • January
      • Debt Buyer's Collection of Interest Waived by Credit Card Issuer
      • Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
  • 2019
    • November
      • Liability for Deceased Spouse's Medical Bills
      • Liability for Spouse's Emergency Medical Expenses
      • Interstate Intrinsic Value Fund
      • Debts of Decedent
      • Obligations of Property Ownership
      • Action Financial Services, LLC
      • Debts of Spouse Prior to Marriage
      • Obtaining Credit Information on Spouse
      • Interstate Recovery Service, Inc.
    • October
      • Enova
    • September
      • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Files Suit Against Fair Collections & Outsourcing
      • Forensic loan audits
    • August
      • Door to Door Sales
      • Credit Adjustments Inc.
      • Liability for Deficiency
      • Collection Bureau of America
      • Medical Bill of Spouse
    • June
      • Patient financing
    • May
      • Auto loan defaults rise
      • Consumer Watchdog’s Proposed Debt Collection Rule Bites Consumers: Authorizes Harassment by Debt Collectors
      • Nissan of St. Charles; alleged failure of car dealer to pay off trade-ins
    • April
      • Incorrect Price in Advertisement
      • Disclosure of artificial or synthetic products
      • Improper interest charges on bad debts
      • Judgment on Debt Incurred by Identity Thief
    • March
      • BGNF Group, LLC fka Bawld Guy Note Fund, LLC
      • My Wife Had Surgery and the Bills Piled Up
    • February
      • Barbato v. Greystone Alliance, LLC -- debt buyers are debt collectors -- important case
      • Missing Court Date
      • Universal Fidelity
      • Enforcement of Judgment Against Bank Account
      • North Shore Agency
    • January
      • Weber & Olcese, P.L.C.
      • Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust
      • BP Peterman Law Group
      • Garnishment of Joint Bank Account.
  • 2018
    • December
      • MTGLQ
      • Yakte Properties
      • Illinois Institute of Art lawsuit
      • Revised Illinois exemptions
    • November
      • Am I Responsible for My Wife's Medical Bills After She Passed?
      • Potential claims: Are any of these companies attempting to collect money from you
      • Are you being sued by any of these companies?
      • Internet Payday Lender Found Liable
      • Park Tree Investments
      • Potential claims: "Warranty Forever"
      • Motion to Vacate Judgment
    • October
      • REO Trust 2017-RPL1
      • National Collegiate
      • Bronze Creek Title Trust
      • HBLC
      • Hilldale Trust
      • CVF Mortgage Loan Trusts
      • Main Street Asset Solutions or Main Street Capital Partners
      • Potential Claim | Align Income Share Funding Transactions, Opportunity Financial, Nextep
      • Potential Claim | Time Investment Company
      • Potential Claim | Default Settlement Agreement
      • Greenleaf II REO 1
    • September
      • Firstmark Services
      • Clearing up Credit
      • Residential Credit Opportunities Trust
      • The CMI Group GP, LLC
      • Potential claims: Orangetheory Fitness
      • RMAC Trust
      • CIM Trust
      • Carisbrook Asset Holding Trust
      • 2005 Residential Trust
      • Time periods within which judgment can be vacated in Illinois
      • Coast to Coast Financial Solutions, Inc.
      • Note Without a Due Date
      • American Mortgage Investment Partners (AMIP)
      • Kirkland Acquisitions
    • August
      • Inspection fees on FHA mortgage loans
      • CGR Services
      • ICS Capital, LLC
      • Anselmo Lindberg
      • Liability for Utility Debts
      • Potential Claim | Being Sued in Illinois on a Debt?
      • MSNI Advantage
      • GCAT Management Services
      • Interstate TD Investments
      • Unlicensed Practitioners
    • July
      • Vacation of Judgments
      • collection scam
      • Payday loans
      • MFRA Trust
      • “Warranty Forever”
    • June
      • ProCom Services
      • Credit Systems International, Inc.
      • Liability of Person Holding Power of Attorney
      • Surrender vs. Sale When You Cannot Afford to Pay for Vehicle
    • May
      • Capital Resource Management
      • Roeser & Vucha
      • National Recovery Network
      • Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Story About 7th Cir Decision in Our Fridman Case
      • JTM Capital Management
      • Threats of Check Fraud
      • Liability on Note Signed by 2 People
      • Corporate Receivables, Inc
      • Threats of Check Fraud on Payday Loan
    • April
      • SRA Associates
      • Creditors Collection Bureau, Inc.
      • ICS Collection Service, Inc.
      • Can Creditors Take Your Car or Attach Your Checking Account for Payment?
      • Can't Afford Home After Bankruptcy
      • Virtuoso Sourcing Group
      • License Suspension by Creditor
      • Complaints Against Credit Reporting Agencies Almost Doubled in 2017!
    • March
      • Can I Still Be Sued for a 9 Year Old Debt?
      • FMS Investment Corp., doing business as Financial Management Systems
      • Martin Financial
      • J. C. Christensen & Associates, Inc.
      • Foster & Garbus
      • Access Receivables Management
      • Concord Servicing Corporation
      • Decreased late charges on FHA loans
      • Lease Finance Group
      • Cell Phone Calls and Spam Text Messages
      • Immediate Credit Recovery
      • Bruck Law Offices, S.C.
      • Reverse mortgages
      • First Choice Assets LLC
      • Universal Credit Services
      • Navient, SLM and Sallie Mae
    • February
      • Liability for Small Loan
      • Global Receivables Solutions
      • FMS Investment Corp.
      • Threats of Arrest to Collect Internet Loan
      • National Note Group
      • Beneficial Opportunity Fund
      • Ditech Financial
    • January
      • Can a Debt Collector Call Me on My Cell Phone?
      • Liability for Spouse's Bills
      • Can Debt Collectors Call Me at Work?
      • BCAT
      • Can Debt Collectors Leave Messages on My Answering Machine?
  • 2017
    • December
      • Can I Get My Money Back?
      • Netspend Settles FTC Charges
      • Can Joint Account Be Seized to Pay a Judgment?
      • How Long After the Date of Loan or Debt Does a Company Have to Pursue Collection?
    • November
      • Resolution of Court Case
      • Should I Make Payment Arrangement Instead of Going to Court
    • October
      • Revival of Judgment
      • Right to Direct Collector Not to Call
      • New York State Will Unveil New Regulations on Debt Collectors
      • Refusal of Creditor to Accept Payment on a Judgment
      • Right of Creditor to Seize Account
    • September
      • Collection Attorneys Seek FDCPA Exemption
      • Offering to "Settle" Time-Barred Debts
    • August
      • Served with Lawsuit for Someone with Similar Name
      • Ratification of Transactions
      • Illinois Collection Service, Inc.
      • Splitting Claim
      • Settlement with Debt Collector
    • July
      • Spousal Liability
      • Spouse's Debts as Affecting Credit Score
      • Putting Liens on the Property of Another
      • Where Collection Actions May Be Filed - Seventh Circuit Decision in Med-1 Case
    • June
      • In a Small Claims Court, Can I Be Sued for a Credit Card Debt
      • A Dozen Things That Debt Collectors Are Not Allowed to Do
      • Divorcing and Mortgages
      • Statute of Limitations on Note
      • BBB: Beware of Quick Credit Repair Offers
      • Removal of Judgments
    • May
      • Statute of Frauds
      • Removing Judgment from Credit Record
      • Suburban Drivers Overcharged for Old Parking Tickets
      • Premature Electronic Funds Transfer
      • Can the Lender Force You to Pay in Full or Reapply for the Loan?
    • April
      • We Are Letting Our ATV Go to Repo
      • Creditors Collection Service, Inc.
      • Student Loan Debt Overtakes Credit Card Debt
      • Arrest for Nonpayment of Debt
    • February
      • You Do Not Have to Pay to Receive Benefits from a Class Action
      • Billing Dispute
      • Paying Judgment Where Judgment Creditor Is Deceased
      • Attempt to Collect Excessive Amount on Judgment
    • January
      • I Can't Afford to Pay My Jeep Payments
      • I Am Behind on My Car Payments
      • Parent's Debts
  • 2016
    • November
      • Am I Responsible for My Mother's Debt After She Passed Away?
      • Decedent's Debts
    • October
      • What Happens If I Can't Pay a Judgment?
      • Effect of Signing Power of Attorney
      • Divorce and Rights of Creditor
      • I Recently Found out That My Mother Had Been Using My Information for Credit Since I Was 14 Years Old
    • September
      • Illegal Collection Attempts
      • My Daughter's Bank Placed a Freeze on Her Account Due to a Collection Judgment
      • Fcc Fines Companies $11 Million for Unauthorized Charges on Consumer Bills, Deceptive Marketing, and Illegal Carrier Changes Com
    • July
      • Liability for Funeral Expenses
    • June
      • What Can I Do If I Had a Car Repossessed
      • Liability for Debts of Spouse After Divorce.
    • May
      • Transfer of Marion County Township Small Claims Cases
      • Explanation of CFPB Prepaid Card Rule
      • Amount Owed on Court Ordered Wage Deduction
    • January
      • The Creditor Froze My Bank Account.
  • 2015
    • August
      • Payday Loan Collection Scam
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