No doubt you remember the financial crisis of 2008. Unprecedented numbers of homes were foreclosed on in Philadelphia and across the nation, unemployment surged, the stock market tanked and President Bush and his advisers openly worried that the U.S. banking system...
When we shop for things for our children, we think of safety before we consider cost. After all, we while we normally get what we pay for, we shouldn’t have to sacrifice for safety. According to a report provided by the non-profit group Kids in Danger (KID), the...
She and her husband needed a car to get her to dialysis five times every week. Because the couple did not have a lot of money, they had to go to a car dealer that offered financing regardless of credit history. Unsurprisingly, the terms were pretty painful: a 2007...
In recent days, there have been lawsuits filed by consumers seeking to protect themselves from robocalling. Now legislation has been reintroduced in the U.S. Congress to cut robocalling down even more.The bill is called Help Americans Never Get Unwanted Phone Calls...
For some of our readers delving into the below scam-related story, a famous quote attributed to President Lincoln might come readily to mind.To wit: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people...
Frequent readers of our Philadelphia consumer protection law blog know that our focus is on ways in which city residents can be protected from fraud, scams and abuse. We read recently of an abusive debt collector who is being sought by a state's attorney general for...
Identity theft is on the increase in Philadelphia and across the nation. We read recently of an ID theft victim who has not only had to spend much time and energy undoing the damage of the original crime, but is now also having to contend with an abusive debt...
As you age, do you feel progressively more vulnerable regarding your potential for being ripped off in a consumer-related scam? That would be only natural, given the sheer proliferation of fraudulent schemes in recent years and the very evident efforts of bad-faith...
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently said she had "a great deal of trouble" with a business model involving the purchase of consumer debt. Sotomayor and the rest of the court heard a case this week revolving around a firm that purchases...
They call it helping veterans."They" are scammers, and Pennsylvania Attorney General-Elect Josh Shapiro says that, rather than being helpful, their actions are flatly "disgusting." And unlawful.Shapiro's focus on unscrupulous individuals and companies that prey upon...