We recently discovered that bill collectors are using popular social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace to dig up very personal information on people in debt
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Recently a bill collector from a collection agency purportedly discovered new employment information published on a Facebook profile they didn’t originally have. Soon enough collection calls and threats of garnishing wages followed at this individual’s place of employment.

It’s probably a good idea to set your social networking profile to “private” in all areas, if a bill collector learns something about you through a social networking site you have no one to blame but yourself for publishing it.

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