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Passive Debt Buyer May Delegate Dispute Communications to Third Party

Consumer Financial Services Law

A New York District Court recently addressed the issue of whether the FDCPA requires passive debt buyers to personally register disputes or whether they can delegate that obligation to their third party debt collector/servicer. In Nunez v. Pinnacle Credit Services, 2016 U.S.

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How to Remove Capital One Collections From Your Credit Report

Better Credit Blog

This doesn’t mean you no longer owe this credit card debt; it means you no longer owe the credit card issuer the money. Instead, you now owe the money to the third-party debt collector. That said, there is no harm in trying this method even if Capital One still owns your old credit card debt.