Tag Archive: Unfair & Deceptive Practices

I Hate Getting Ripped Off!

Which one of you woke up this morning and said, "I want to get ripped off!"? I doubt anyone. Apparently though, there are several (thousand/million) out there who don’t mind supporting companies that take your money, then gouge you for more (my beef with Hollywood Video).

There’s a new post at the Bankruptcy Law Network, which [...]

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Horrible Debt Collection Tactics

Most of us hate debt collectors. They seem to call at the most inappropriate time (we were paid to work on New Year’s Day), and sometimes can be quite ruthless or rude in their debt collection tactics. Most people though recognize that it’s a 20-something calling them, and they hang up.

Well, that’s not the case [...]

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UDAP? What the heck is that?

Did you know that Oklahoma (and most states) has statutes that protect you from unfair or deceptive practices? Of course you did, even if you didn’t know what it was or where to find it. Natural assumptions about good and evil tell us that somewhere or at sometime someone created a statute to protect us [...]

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Foreclosures, collections, and judgments, Oh My!

One of the ezines I subscribe to is directed toward helping small law firms manage their businesses and keep the practitioners up-to-date on changes in the law. The ezine is published by a division of the American Bar Association.

This month’s ezine focuses on credit, collections and foreclosure issues faced by people like you. One article [...]

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“Fair” Debt Collection

As these economic times start to stutter and your monetary security slides, it’s going to be far too common that you’ll have debt collectors calling. It’s even more of a guarantee that most of the time, you’ll find the collectors violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, (FDCPA).
Before attending law school, I worked in the [...]

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