Debt Collection - Tactics used by Debt Recovery companies

This is the 2nd part of a Panorama episode "Can't Pay Won't Pay" broadcast on the 10th November 2008, and shows some of the tactics used by Debt Collectors. We are shown an example of how a man's family are left to deal with the unscrupulous methods used by one company who claim to be sympathetic to a debtors situation. In this case the debtor has been sectioned for mental illness and the debt collector has no other agenda than to get the money out of the debtors family.

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• debt collectors
• credit card debt
• write off credit cards
• debt elimination
• debt collection
• debt recovery
• unfair credit agreements

[KYTribe]

never give them your bank details, inform them YOU will set up a standing order. Pay ONLY what you can afford and never engage them on the phone. I pay each of my bottom feeders £1 each per month after 3 years of going without food in order to repay them at a rate they thought I should pay. Never again. Don't be scared or unsecured debt and these mickey mouse companies. Take the bull by the horns, after all, your debt with the original creditor has already been written off.

[asammieawa]

@Catgirl356 contractually obligated to is a very wide term...

[ianchard]

@NoDestinyLive4Now That's exactly what @Catgirl356 said: pay those that you are contractually obligated to pay.

I strongly recommend that anyone considering this 'get out of debt free' nonsense reads around the subject first.

[ianchard]

Looks like the website promoted by this video has gone away, and archive.org doesn't have a copy.

[NoDestinyLive4Now]

@Catgirl356 unless you don't really owe all or part of the debt.

[Catgirl356]

How about we just all pay our bills like were supposed to and contractually obligated to???

[wesmatron]

Tell them you'll pay as long as they provide the bill and contract....then tell them to fuck off.

[kingwaldo100]

These debt collecters are rapists and the Government welcomes this. They will torture and rape your family, including all the members. The OFT who regulates them are told not to do anything. As for the Financial Services Authority , who regulate the banks, they welcome this behaviour. Also the Financial Ombudsman Service, supports the torture of pregnant women and are told to protect the banking industry.

[Oneworld87]

What's the intro song?

[PICTOM]

never ever phone dca's only conduct in writing....emails sometimes work...