The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS LOWER COURT’S DISMISSAL, RULES ‘IMPLICIT THREAT’ ENOUGH FOR FDCPA VIOLATION
- The inference of “an implicit threat” in a collection letter is now enough to be considered a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, following a published opinion that was issued on Friday by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging a collector violated the FDCPA when attempting to collect on a time-barred debt.
DCF ORGANIZER SHARES SOME DETAILS ABOUT EVENT’S CANCELLATION
- The 2019 Debt Collection Forum was scheduled to be held this week in Chicago, but did not go off as planned. Nick Jarman, the event’s organizer, agreed to answer questions about what happened. What follows are his unedited comments, provided to AccountsRecovery.net.
JUDGE CERTIFIES CLASS IN TCPA SUIT OVER COLLECTION CALLS
- A District Court judge in California has certified a class-action lawsuit, alleging a creditor violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when collection agencies working on its behalf made calls to the cell phones of individuals using an automated telephone dialing system without first obtaining the proper consent to do so and who never gave their number to the creditor in the first place.
WHY ROBOCALLS WILL NEVER TRULY GO AWAY
- We should view robocalls like email spam, which was once incredibly prevalent but now has been largely reduced to a folder in your email that nobody ever really checks and is now more a minor inconvenience than a huge annoyance, according to a published report detailing why robocalling will never truly go away.
WORTH NOTING: Look up “karma” in the dictionary, and this guy’s picture is going to be right there … A man in Texas drowned while mowing a lawn … Home plate umpires are wrong about balls and strikes 20% of the time … What you need to confess if you want to be a good manager … Seven things you didn’t know you could do with Gmail … A robot that can find Waldo in less than five seconds … The Secretary of Homeland Security resigned last night … Something for you to do next weekend … How to answer ‘Why do you want this job?’
Beach hacks to save your summer
Music Monday
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS LOWER COURT’S DISMISSAL, RULES ‘IMPLICIT THREAT’ ENOUGH FOR FDCPA VIOLATION
- The inference of “an implicit threat” in a collection letter is now enough to be considered a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, following a published opinion that was issued on Friday by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging a collector violated the FDCPA when attempting to collect on a time-barred debt.
DCF ORGANIZER SHARES SOME DETAILS ABOUT EVENT’S CANCELLATION
- The 2019 Debt Collection Forum was scheduled to be held this week in Chicago, but did not go off as planned. Nick Jarman, the event’s organizer, agreed to answer questions about what happened. What follows are his unedited comments, provided to AccountsRecovery.net.
JUDGE CERTIFIES CLASS IN TCPA SUIT OVER COLLECTION CALLS
- A District Court judge in California has certified a class-action lawsuit, alleging a creditor violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when collection agencies working on its behalf made calls to the cell phones of individuals using an automated telephone dialing system without first obtaining the proper consent to do so and who never gave their number to the creditor in the first place.
WHY ROBOCALLS WILL NEVER TRULY GO AWAY
- We should view robocalls like email spam, which was once incredibly prevalent but now has been largely reduced to a folder in your email that nobody ever really checks and is now more a minor inconvenience than a huge annoyance, according to a published report detailing why robocalling will never truly go away.
WORTH NOTING: Look up “karma” in the dictionary, and this guy’s picture is going to be right there … A man in Texas drowned while mowing a lawn … Home plate umpires are wrong about balls and strikes 20% of the time … What you need to confess if you want to be a good manager … Seven things you didn’t know you could do with Gmail … A robot that can find Waldo in less than five seconds … The Secretary of Homeland Security resigned last night … Something for you to do next weekend … How to answer ‘Why do you want this job?’
Beach hacks to save your summer
Music Monday
The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
