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Hi guys,

I believe there's a huge advantage to a 3rd party doing your "dirty work." In my personal freelance career I've experienced many cases of customers ignoring clients, until a lawyer or debt collection agency gets involved.

We built this to be the latter, and involve the former if necessary.

To getting paid,

Ryan / Freelance Debt crew

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Debt collection agencies have not legal right/power to collect debts under the FDCPA. All someone has to do (if they are savvy enough to know this) is send you a cease and desist. Virtually every debt collection agency out there knows this and simply ignores the c&D until the victim, er, target gets a lawyer. But in doing so, they incur statutory fines of $1,000 per incident in many cases.

Are you simply going after the people who don't know they don't owe you money because they don't have a contractual relationship with you?

The FDCPA doesn't apply to debts owed by businesses.

Ryan can you explain what you will do to collect on the debt? Debt collection can be a bit of a scam especially if it is pay on success only rather than just buying the debt.

I am sure you are not doing this, but it would be very easy to just do the bare minimum and then keep 15% of those debts you got lucky on.

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