How to verify who is contacting you about a debt: a five-step guide
Recently, the media have been writing a lot about debtors' rights and about what is and is not allowed when collecting debts. This is an important topic. You may be contacted about a debt by a creditor, by a new company to which your debt has been assigned, by a collection company acting on the creditor's behalf, or by a fraudster merely posing as one of them. Telling them apart takes just a few minutes. Here are five steps. Anyone can be verified. Including us.