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A: The tactic of changing delinquency dates on old debts is called "re-aging, find cipro no prescription required, Cheap cipro no prescription, " and it's illegal. One collection agency, NCO Group, was recently fined $1.5 million for re-aging accounts; that is the largest civil penalty ever obtained under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Your first step is to write a letter to the credit bureaus that are reporting the inaccurate information, cipro without prescription. Make it clear that the collection agency has illegally re-aged the accounts and ask that the accounts be deleted from your files, buy cheapest cipro. Cheap cipro, Send this, and all other correspondence about the matter, cipro malaysia, Cipro in bangkok, by certified mail, return receipt requested, order cipro on internet. Cheap cipro tablets, You'll want to keep a good paper trail.

Unfortunately, the bureaus may make only a cursory check with the collection agency, cipro india, Cipro uk, which will probably insist that the information is accurate. You will then need to dispute the accounts directly with the collector, buy cipro without prescription, Drug cipro, pointing out that re-aging is illegal and insisting that the agency provide the correct delinquency dates to the bureaus.

Debt expert Gerri Detweiler recommends sending copies of your letter to the Federal Trade Commission, your state's attorney general, buy cipro us, Cipro rx, your U.S. senators and congressional representative and the Better Business Bureau in the city where the collection agency is located.

The collection agency "may decide they don't want any more trouble and resolve it for her, generic cipro," said Detweiler, founder of StopDebtCollectorsCold.com. "If not, she will need an attorney."

It would be nice if you could solve the problem by paying the old debt. But that probably would make matters worse, because the payment would make the delinquencies look even more recent to the FICO credit scoring formula that most lenders use.

Besides, a collection agency shouldn't be rewarded for using such sleazy and illegal tactics.