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Your online friend is a bill collector

By Glen Ashman

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Your online friend is a bill collector

"Be wary of those invitations to be your friend on Facebook or requests to follow your tweets.
They could be from debt collectors trying to gather personal information about you in their pursuit of payment, warns Consolidated Credit Counseling Services. The Florida-based credit counselor says it's hearing from clients all over the country that debt collectors are worming their way into consumers' lives using Twitter, Facebook Linkedin and Myspace. 
Consolidated's founder, Howard Dvorkin, says debt collectors are spying on consumers and even using the information posted on these sites to contact the family of friends of those who owe money..."

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Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).

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