{"id":653843,"date":"2010-02-03T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21471"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:53:18","slug":"screwing-the-bill-collectors-by-suing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/653843","title":{"rendered":"Screwing The Bill Collectors By Suing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2268\/2339250514_a7e2437ae2.jpg?w=180\" class=\"alignright\"  \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/2010-01-21\/news\/better-off-deadbeat-craig-cunningham-has-a-simple-solution-for-getting-bill-collectors-off-his-back-he-sues-them\/2\">Dallas Observer<\/a> reports on a local resident who decided to have fun with his $100,000 debt. Army reservist Craig Cunningham realized that many debt collectors and creditors operate in brazenly illegal ways &#8212; and so has made a profitable second career for himself suing collectors and credit card companies:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the next four years, Cunningham accused debt collectors of misrepresenting the amount he owed. He sued over prerecorded and auto-dialed calls to his cellular phone (a TCPA violation worth up to $1,500 per call). All told, he filed 15 other lawsuits in federal court without the help of a lawyer, earning himself settlements totaling more than $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham filed his lawsuit against Credit Management, L.P. in August 2009, claiming violations in the amount of around $200,000. The original bill for Time Warner&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Observer reports on a local resident who decided to have fun with his $100,000 debt. Army reservist Craig Cunningham realized that many debt collectors and creditors operate in brazenly illegal ways &#8212; and so has made a profitable second career for himself suing collectors and credit card companies: In the next four years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2K5R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}