by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 13, 2026 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. Being hounded by someone attempting to collect a debt you do not owe constitutes fraud. In recent years the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against a number of these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. Being hounded by someone attempting to collect a debt you do not owe constitutes fraud. In recent years the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against a number of these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 11, 2024 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. Being hounded by someone attempting to collect a debt you do not owe constitutes fraud. In recent years the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against a number of these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 21, 2024 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. I have written many times in the past about scammers who use deceptive and abusive collections practices in attempting to collect debts. These scammers violate the Fair Debt Collection...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. Being hounded by someone attempting to collect a debt you do not owe is fraud. In 2018 I told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York Attorney General brought legal...