Know Your Rights When Creditors Call

If you’re being contacted by creditors who are trying to collect from you, it’s important to understand what your legal rights are. In general, you are protected from behavior that can fairly be described as “abusive and deceptive.” Creditors can’t contact you anymore—other than through litigation—if you have requested in writing that they stop, and they can’t try to contact you at your place of employment if you have told them to stop. Creditors may not pose as someone they are not to try to collect a debt, and they may not verbally abuse you when they are in contact with you. Creditors also can’t pester you with late night calls, so they can’t try to call you after 9 p.m. or before 8 a.m. A creditor also cannot report false information about you to try to harm your credit report.

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