subject: Debt Relief - Educate Yourself Regarding the Ethical and Unethical Ways of Collections [print this page] Debt Relief - Educate Yourself Regarding the Ethical and Unethical Ways of Collections
Ethical and unethical are the two ways of collecting debts. Both seem similar but they are very much different from each other. Ethical way is the legal and the correct way of paying the debt but on the other hand the unethical way is the wrong way to pay the debts, this is because the fraud and scam companies use this unethical way from the collection of debt.
Ethical way is used to avoid lawsuits based on fraud and harassment by the bad debtors. According to the federal law the creditors are prohibited to lie, abuse the debtors in order to collect the debt. If your creditor follows these practices then you can file a case against him before the federal trade commission. So in order to avoid these types of mishaps the creditors uses the ethical way for the collection of debt. Basically the creditor should do a face to face communication with the debtor to come up with some agreement. It can provide benefits to both the parties. In most of the cases the neutral party can behave as a mediator for both the sides to resolve the issue. Sometimes the creditor hires a debt collection agency for the collection of debt. But this can be done only when the creditor has failed to establish a mutual agreement.
In unethical way the fake debt relief companies take the benefit of these debt collection agencies. Means the fake people for making money open a debt collecting agency so that they can help the creditor in getting his money. These fake debt relief companies use the unethical way of the debt collection and make their own profit instead of the creditor. These fake debt relief companies can be identified because they don't have any previous records.
In current market scenario the borower is finding it very difficult to pay back the debt. It is better to plan the debt repayment in a phased manner with the help of the professional debt settlement agency. If one plan the budget better and gradually start keeping the budget in proper manner it is easy to come come out of the debt.
