Debt collector definition

Debt collector means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another. The term also includes any creditor who, in the process of collecting its own debts, uses any name other than its own which would indicate that a third person is collecting or attempting to collect such debts. The term also includes any person to the extent such person receives an assignment or transfer of a debt in default solely for the purpose of facilitating collection of such debt.

Debt collector means a person engaging, directly or indirectly, in debt collection, whether for the person, the person’s employer, or others, and includes a person who sells, or offers to sell, forms represented to be a collection system, device, or scheme, intended to be used to collect debts.

Debt collector means a person who regularly collects or

Examples of Debt collector in a sentence

• Debt collector shall also include a person who uses an instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in a business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security interests.

• Debt collector shall also include any person who buys or acquires debt that is in default at the time of purchase or acquisition and who seeks to collect such debt directly.

• Debt collector means any person who uses an instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of a debt, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, a debt owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.

• Debt collector licensingis also the primary responsibility of the Superintendent and DeputySuperintendent of the Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection.The Maine Bureau reviews thefinancial posture of collection firms applying for licenses and handlesnumerous written debt collector complaints each year, along withhundreds of telephone complaints and questions.

• Debt collector has currently been appointed to deal with the situation.

More Definitions of Debt collector

Debt collector means any person engaging, directly or indirectly, in debt collection, and includes any person who sells, or offers to sell, forms represented to be a collection system, device or scheme, intended or calculated to be used to collect claims. The term does not include a printing company engaging in the printing and sale of forms.

Debt collector means any person employed or engaged by a collection agency to perform the collection of debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due to another, and includes any person employed by the department of personnel, or any division of that department, when collecting debts due to the state on behalf of another state agency.

Debt collector means (i) any Person who uses an instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mail in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of Debts or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, Debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another; (ii) any creditor who, in the process of collecting its own Debts, uses any name other than its own that would indicate that a third Person is collecting or attempting to collect the creditor’s Debts; and (iii) any Person to the extent that such Person collects or attempts to collect any Debt that was in default at the time it was obtained by such Person.

Debt collector means a person defined as a debt collector under 15 U.S.C. § 1692a of the federal

Debt collector means any person defined as such within Section 1 of the Debt Collectors Act 114 of 1998;

Debt collector means any person employed or engaged by a collection agency to perform the collection of debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due to another.

Debt collector means any person employed or engaged