Credit Card Debt Settlement Rip-Offs!
You probably have noticed that many companies are advertising services to settle your credit card debt. These companies are hard to miss if you watch television or read the newspaper. While the idea of debt settlement sounds great, in reality many of those companies are scam artists. There is a law in Washington that regulates credit card debt settlement companies. That statute defines “debt adjusting” as “the managing, counseling, settling, adjusting, prorating, or liquidating of the indebtedness of a debtor, or receiving funds for the purpose of distributing said funds among creditors in payment or partial payment of obligations of a debtor.” A debt adjuster is any person or business that engages in the business of credit card or home loan settlements for compensation. The Attorney General’s Office on Consumer Fraud and the Department of Financial Institutions enforce this statute. Violation of the Statute is also a per se violation of the Consumer Protec...