Inside the dark, lucrative world of consumer debt collection

Annie H.

Egalatarian
I just read this on FWF. It's pretty crazy to imagine that there is so much going on behind the sense of consumer debt. An underworld so to speak comparable to selling illegal drugs.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/magazine/100000003056642.mobile.html
Wow-- what a read and what memories. I started working at a collection agency when I was 15 in summer and on weekends. I worked 20-30 hours per week all through college. I started with clerical work and then graduated to skip-tracing (at one point in my life I wanted to be a PI and then I got a job offer to be one and it dawned on me that even though I'd be working for lawyers I'd be chasing around the same level of sleaze sometimes found among collectors.) My proudest moment at age 16 was when I was able to track down a soldier overseas on a Satphone. I was proud I could do it but even then I knew it wasn't right. I shudder to think about it today. I thought things were sleazy back then but wow, what an eye-opener this is.
 
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