By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times February 22, 2012, 5:43 a.m. Reporting from Washington— Federal regulators warned of a new scam in which so-called phantom debt...

Scam operators used personal data from consumers who had applied for short-term loans from payday lenders, bullying, threatening them into paying debts they didn't owe,...

By Carter Dougherty, Bloomberg  A federal judge in Chicago moved to shut businesses that allegedly used illegally obtained personal financial data to make threatening debt...

By Michael Tarm, Associated Press A phone scam in which callers in India posed as debt collectors bilked millions of dollars out of more than...

By Leah Hope  (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The Federal Trade Commission warns consumers about what they call fraudulent debt collectors. The agency says the companies included...