ZipDebt Client Comment Forum (2007-2019)
This post is intended to provide a forum for ZipDebt clients to post comments about their experience with the program. Recently, I spoke to a person interested in my program, and they told me that they didn’t bother to read any of the testimonials on my site because “everybody fakes testimonials.” Well, that’s probably true…
Catching Up on Industry News
There have been several interesting developments recently in the debt industry: 1. A large debt settlement company in California was targeted by the Federal Trade Commission and put under receivership, and the principal owner’s personal assets were frozen pending litigation by the government. A federal judge has granted the FTC a temporary restraining order against…
More Debt Collection Madness
In a follow-up to a recent 4-part series on debt collection insanity in Massachusetts (see my blog entry for August 10, 2006), the Boston Globe has published a new article, “Debt Collectors Hunt the Innocent.” The focus of this latest article is on the growing problem of collection agencies targeting the wrong person. As the…
Fed Report on Fair Credit Reporting Act
The Federal Trade Commission and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System have released their joint “Report to Congress on the Fair Credit Reporting Act Dispute Process.” The report makes for some pretty dry reading, even for someone like me who’s really into this stuff. But there are also some fascinating tidbits of…