No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

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