Category: Debt Relief

Debt collectors using aggressive tactics to pursue payments

Jorgen Wouters

When Betty Perez bought new bedroom furniture for her children earlier this year, she never dreamed that being a few days late on her payments would result in a collection agency barricading her front door and threatening to call the police.

Perez is just one of an untold numbers of consumers, many of them struggling to make ends meet in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, who are facing increasingly aggressive tactics by debt collectors determined to do whatever it takes to make people pay up.

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