A reader started his own blog about his American Agencies collection experience: Debt Collector American Agencies Extortion and Threats The allegations are really unbelievable, but as long-time readers might remember, American Agencies employees refused to delete the TOTALLY BOGUS Pacific Bell collection from my credit reports and to add insult to injury, they even ran [...]

In this 2008 case, Academy Collection Service, Inc. and its owner, Keith Dickstein, paid $2.25 million to settle FTC charges that Academy collectors violated the FTC Act and the FDCPA while collecting debts, and that Dickstein failed to stop the violations.  Now they settled DOJ and FTC imposed civil penalties of $375,000 and $300,000, respectively, [...]