Wells Fargo Bank has been on the receiving end of stern criticism over the past months for a scheme that involved more than a million fraudulently opened bank accounts. While that scandal has engulfed the company in controversy, a less-publicized scandal has mostly...
The first thing to know if you are contacted by a debt collector is to understand that you are not alone. According to the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, a third of consumers have been contacted about debts in the past year alone.Of those contacted about a...
We expect that across the nation, debt collectors greeted the recent opinion of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals with groans and complaints. The interpretation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act increases the pressure on collectors to be honest with...
Having litigated many cases against WELLS FARGO and its attorneys pretty regularly over the past 15 years, nothing, absolutely nothing, in the recent revelations about its rampant fraud surprised me.But, before summarizing what has been found, a larger point is...
Technology makes it possible for you to read this Philadelphia consumer protection blog post from anywhere in the world. Technology also makes it possible for debt collectors to pursue alleged debts with a relentlessness that was previously impossible.A judge with the...
I have good news and bad new to report in my new ongoing series regarding unlawful Title Loans. The good news is that we were able to help a victim recently and obtained a significant recovery for her and did so very quickly. She was more than grateful.Her story was...
Seven in the morning is a little early for most of us to hear a knock on the front door. Rich Snapp didn't know the person banging on his door on a Wednesday morning nearly a year ago, and the stranger certainly didn't come bearing glad tidings. Instead, Snapp was...
You can take the man out of the dealer, but you can't take the dealer (delaer fraud) out of the man - or so it seems. The Washington Post recently reported about how a dealer turned Congressman has continued his unscrupulous practices.The post reported that Congress'...
There is a major area of Fair Credit Reporting that most people do not associated with Credit Reporting at all. Many good people are denied employment unlawfully, because of a blemish on his/her criminal record. Usually they did not something immature, rash and stupid...
Far too often, we have heard of abusive debt collection practices here in Philadelphia. Collectors can issue threats, use profanities, make false or misleading statements and harass people at their jobs.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently submitted a...