Posted by Paul Mankin | Feb 26, 2023 |
Are you past due on your Fullbeauty credit card account? The frequent calls from Comenity Bank and debt collectors may rise above the level of annoyance. These companies are known for harassing consumers and violating their rights in an attempt to collect a debt.
If your consumer rights have bee...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Feb 26, 2023 |
Are you past due on your Forever 21 credit card account? If so, you may be receiving debt collection calls from Comenity Bank or one of their third-party agencies. If you ask them to stop and they continue, you may be able to get compensation for their debtor harassment.
Forever 21, Comneity Ban...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Feb 26, 2023 |
Stop Harassing Collection Calls from Peebles Credit Card.
Posted by Paul Mankin | Feb 26, 2023 |
Are you receiving debt collection calls from Loft credit card? Have you asked them to stop, but they continue? You have rights that Loft and their credit card account owner Comenity Bank may be violating. If they are harassing you, you can get compensation for your damages.
Comenity Bank often u...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Feb 26, 2023 |
Do you have an Ulta (Ultimate Rewards) credit card that is past due? Is Comenity Bank calling and harassing you to collect that debt? You have rights under state and federal laws that protect you from those illegal creditor tactics.
Ulta, Comenity Bank, and their third-party debt collection agen...
Posted by Paul Mankin | May 13, 2020 |
Stop Comenity Bank's Victoria Secret's collection calls by:
1. Sending a written letter to Comenity Bank demanding that the collection calls stop;
2. Verbally telling Comenity Bank's Victoria Secret's collection agent to stop calling; and/or
3. Hiring a collection harassment attorney to stop the calls for you.
Posted by Paul Mankin | Nov 04, 2019 |
Yes, a debt collector can contact you after the statute of limitations is up. This is because the statute of limitations on debt collection only limits the amount of time a creditor or debt collector has to sue you in an attempt to collect on the debt; it does not limit the amount of time they ha...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 24, 2019 |
What you should do if you are injured in a San Diego Slip and Fall accident
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 22, 2019 |
Has a collection agency contacted you claiming you owe a bill you do not remember incurring and that does not appear on your credit report? Many unpaid bills will not appear on your credit report until after they have been turned over to a collection agency and some will never find their way onto...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 21, 2019 |
As many people know, slip and fall cases can be quite a nasty detail. If it is on someone else's property, the property owner may look for any way to disregard the event and not have to pay out. In terms of the victim, they may seek financial aid due to ensuing injuries they may have sustained th...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 21, 2019 |
Being at the center of a slip and fall case is never an easy situation. On the one hand, many feel as though it will be partially their own fault and that they should have been able to prevent it. On the other, they may feel that the facility in question is to blame, yet have no way to prove it.
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Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 21, 2019 |
Hospital accidents can happen without warning, and in many different scenarios and situations. Having these situations befall you as a possible patient can lead to severe harm, especially if you are in a current frail state physically. These events can ride the fine line of a potential legal clai...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 18, 2019 |
Owner Resource Group is a private investment firm located in Austin, Texas. In 2016 the company acquired GC Services, one of the country's oldest and largest providers of call centers and debt collection services. The collection agency collects for a wide range of businesses and government entiti...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 18, 2019 |
A federal lawsuit filed in June of 2019 in Florida's Southern District court alleges that Jeremy Lee Marcus used PNC Bank accounts to run a fraudulent debt relief scheme that bilked consumers out of $85 million. Marcus used over a dozen business names, including 321 Loans, Helping America Group, ...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 10, 2019 |
Holzman v. Malcolm S. Gerald & Assocs., Inc.
In a recent published decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the court reviewed a district court's dismissal of a set of federal claims against a debt collector for attempting collect on a time-barred debt. As detailed in the Southern Flor...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 10, 2019 |
DiNaples v. MRS BPO, LLC, et al.
In a recent published decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment issued by the Western District of Pennsylvania in a class action matter regarding the lawfulness of printing confidential information in the form of “QR” codes on the outside of ...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 07, 2019 |
If you are being harassed by a debt collector to pay a bill that your insurance company should have paid, you may have found that simply telling the collector this did nothing to persuade them to stop their collection attempts. This is because it is not a debt collector's job to investigate insu...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 07, 2019 |
How you should deal with a debt collector depends on whether you owe the debt, do not owe the debt, or are unsure if you owe the debt, your financial situation, and your current and ultimate financial goals.
How to Deal with a Debt Collector if You Owe the Bill
If you know you owe the bill and ...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 07, 2019 |
Debt collectors are hired by the original creditor, or person who is owed money, to collect the debt for them. Once a creditor hires a debt collector, all payments should be made to the debt collector and not the original creditor. However, before paying any debt collector you should obtain certa...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 03, 2019 |
Frank Abagnale, Jr., a notorious conman and identity thief, turned trusted FBI consultant and one of the world's most respected authorities on fraud, forgery and cyber security is now offering his advice on protecting yourself from becoming a victim of identity theft.
Who is Frank Abagnale, Jr.?...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 03, 2019 |
Four Star Resolution, LLC's owner and CEO was sentenced to 100 months in prison in April of 2017 for coercing thousands of consumers into paying more than $31 million to settle alleged debts. Travell Thomas directed associates at his debt collection agency to:
Inflate the balances of debts owe...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 03, 2019 |
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC is a company that purchases debt from credit card companies for pennies on the dollar. Oftentimes, companies, such as Portfolio Recovery, LLC, who purchase old debt, receive very little information from the original creditor and are therefore unable to prove tha...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Oct 01, 2019 |
How Do Debt Collectors Find You?
If you are looking for ways to hide from a debt collector, you may be disappointed in the end, as it is very difficult to hide from someone who has been hired to locate you, even if you have changed your phone number and moved several times. So how do debt colle...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Sep 24, 2019 |
In a word: yes. Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), anyone regularly involved in reviewing consumer credit or credit-related information for the purpose of deciding whether to approve an application must provide a certain type of notice anytime an adverse action is taken—i.e., when an ...
Posted by Paul Mankin | Sep 19, 2019 |
Over 15 million Americans fall victim to identity theft every year costing over $16 billion in stolen funds. Recovering from identity theft can at first seem like a daunting task, but it does not have to be if you follow the recommendations of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), national credit r...