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Debt Collectors Hunt The Innocent

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In a lengthy article, Walter V. Robinson and Beth Healy report for the Boston Globe about how sometimes debt collectors end up targeting the wrong individuals in their debt collection efforts - saying that they had heard from hundreds of consumers where "many said they had been pursued for debts owed by others with identical or similar names; or asked to pay debts for ill or deceased relatives; or besieged by debt collectors for the misfortune of having phone numbers once held by people who defaulted on their debts."


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