Discussion of Credit Card Debt with Third Parties, in Indiana

[autransin]

Hi,
Need some help. Does a CC company or a Law firm have the right to discuss a debt collection with a person who is not named and the account? This just happened and i feel mad that they would discuess my personal info with someone else. Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Bill

[Happy Trails]

FAIR DEBT COLLECTION

[aaron]

The key portion:

A debt collector may contact a person other than the debtor only to discover or verify the debtor's location. The collector must:

• identify himself, but he must identify his employer only if expressly requested to do so;
  
• not reveal the consumer's indebtedness to anyone other than the debtor or his/her attorney;
  
• not use a post card or in any way reveal debt collection activity.

The collection agency may contact any person besides yourself about your case only once. If a collection agency bill collector calls a third person more than once, they should warn the collector not to call again or they will complain to the Federal Trade Commission.

Note that in-house collection efforts are not ordinarily covered by the FDCPA.

[autransin]

Well i got a letter from Phillips & Cohen stating they were retained by Chase bank to recover the debt. Turns out that the office that called said it was a law firm and its listed as a collection company. This only gets better i tired to call and just get names and address to submit a complaint and they would not give it up. So i called Chase to see if they could help. Talked to 5 people in 5 different departments and not one knew who set this up. Also the amount that was owed keeps changing. I have drawn up the validation letter.What else should i include? Can i put a copy or statement saying that i have filed a complaint with the FTC and Att. general?

Thanks,
Bill

[seniorjudge]

Validation letter samples you can get at :
www.creditinfocenter.com
and
www.creditboards.com

[autransin]

thanks for the leads on another sample of that letter. I still would like to know if i can put in the letter that i have filed formal complaints?

[aaron]

You can put whatever you want in your letter.