There is a 20/20 on Friday night which deals with abusive CAs... The promos have nice examples of FDCPA violations with CAs calling the debtors losers, and the likes... It should be a great edition... (And hey, afterwards we can all come here and discuss it... )
Preview the show. Here is a preview of the show. There are multiple short clips that preview the show.
The show from the perspective of debt collectors. Here is a comment about the show posted on a debt collector's forum I have to agree with much of Judy's comments in that I too thought it praised debt collectors much more than it condemned them for their abuses.
Well, ACA's general council did have to eat crow when they played the phone call samples to her... There were a whole lot of examples of creditor harrassment, "I'm the man who will end your life"...
i just watched it this morning. while there were some really severe cases of harrasment, i thought they focused more on the family that kept racking up debt. wasn't the kind of feature story i was expecting.
The real question is how did people get into financial difficulty. Debt collectors tend to think everybody they contact is some kind of professional deadbeat. They are not alone in thinking that way. They are joined in such thinking by those who are more affluent and successful in our society. Until it happens to them. There are comparatively few people who can be properly categorized as professional deadbeats.
Just like not every CA is a PiTA... I've run into a few of them... Heck, one even gave me one thing to put into a letter to get his own company to stop dead in it's tracks...
