Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCP), Debt collectors are not allowed to do the following:

• Call you after 9PM or before 8AM
• Call you at work after you have communicated with them in writing or verbally that you are not permitted to receive these calls at your place of employment
• Tell a third party that you owe money
• Threaten, harass, or abuse you.This includes people that they may contact about you
• Lie to collect debt from you
• Threaten your arrest
• Provide a bogus company name
• Provide falsified information about you to others

Haveyoubeenthevictimofembarrassingandabusivepracticesbydebtcollectors?Youcanreportviolationsto:

Yourstateattorneygeneral’soffice-https://www.naag.org/TheFederalTradeCommission-https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
TheConsumerFinancialProtectionBureau-https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Resource:consumer.ftc.gov​