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: CL&P BlogDebt Collector Uses Consumer's Debit Card Information for Spending Spree
By Jeff Sovern
The Buffalo News reports here about a debt collector who persuaded a consumer to provide him with her debit card information and then ran up nearly $2,000 of charges on her account. He later asked the debt collection agency for his pay check! With issues involving identity theft, debt collection, fraud, payments, and possibly credit reporting, the story would make a good exam question (hat tip to Gina Calabrese).
Full post as published by CL&P Blog on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).
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