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What a Collector Can and Cannot Do - Know Your Rights !
Under provisions of Federal law, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), it is illegal for debt collectors to:
- Imply that failure to pay the debt could result in arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, or garnishment of wages
- Call consumers at work when they knew the consumers' employers prohibit such calls
- Talk with third parties, including neighbors, children, and employers, for purposes other than acquiring location information about consumers, without consumers' consent
- Cause the telephone to ring, or engage a person in telephone conversations, repeatedly or continuously, with the intent to annoy, abuse, or harass a consumer
- Threaten to take action -- such as filing a lawsuit -- when they do not intend to do so or cannot legally do so
- Call consumers at times or places that they knew or should have known were inconvenient
- Fail to notify consumers of their right to dispute and obtain verification of their debts, and to obtain the name of the original creditor
- Continue to try to collect debts after consumers disputed them in writing, and before verifying the debts
- Use obscene or profane language
Anthony J. Pietrafesa
Attorney at Law
1971 Western Avenue #181
Albany NY 12203
518.218.0851
Fax: 518.514.1241
Admitted in New York
Member National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA)
** Past results no guarantee of a future outcome