Daily Digest – January 21. Definition of Debt Collector Expands; Bad Debt From India On Market
DEBT COLLECTOR DEFINITION BROADENS A debt collector, as defined by the FDCPA is not just someone who may work for...
Daily Digest – January 20. Jeb Bush Proposes Student Loan Plan; Going to Extremes To Hide From Collectors
PUT COLLEGES ON HOOK FOR UNPAID LOANS Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, made a bold...
The Most Commonly Hacked Passwords
Internet users are not a particularly imaginative bunch, at least as far as creating passwords goes. Every year, a company...
FCC Files Brief In Support of Changes to TCPA
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday filed its brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia,...
Member Profile: Getting To Know Scott Cole
Welcome to a new regular feature on AccountsRecovery.net. The collections and debt-buying industries are tight-knit communities, but there is a lot...
Lawsuit Numbers Reach Record High in 2015: WebRecon
The number of lawsuits alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act set new...
Daily Digest – January 19. Sheriff Turns To Online Collections; The Kindly Collector
COLORADO SHERIFF TURNS TO ONLINE COLLECTIONS A Colorado county sheriff's office is turning to a third-party, web-based service to collect...
Daily Digest – January 15. IRS Outlines Collection Plan; Why You Should Never Throw Away Anything
IRS MOVING FORWARD The Internal Revenue Service will have its collections outsourcing program designed within the next 90 days, but...
Daily Digest – January 14. Class Action Suit Settled For $3.4M; Consumers Down on Income, Spending
$3.4 MILLION SETTLEMENT FOR COLLECTION FIRM Collection law firm Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit...
Analyzing Class-Action Settlements
Many in the industry are still upset from recent attacks against what is viewed as a double-standard in the financial services...
