Bank Gets Sued For Bad Business
Credit card issuer Capital One Bank and four other companies were sued by West Virginia
Attorney General Darrell McGraw for unfair and deceptive practices and bad business conduct. The complaint was filed this week in West Virginia's Circuit Court and it claims that Capital One hooked consumers into repayment plans by mailing out solicitations disguised as new credit offers.
Capital One made an offer to give customers one dollar of new credit if they agreed to shift the entire balance of a charged off account to the new credit card. This means that Capital One could re-age debts to get around the statute of limitations, which would start anew.
According to the case, Capital One issued cards with limits as low as 200 dollars for low-income consumers with bad credit histories. The cards carried membership fees of up to 59 dollars per year. Generally, the annual fees were billed on the consumer's second monthly statement, leaving the consumer with just 141 dollars of credit when they thought they had 200 dollars. Then, if the consumer mistakenly exceeded the limit, they could face over the limit fees of up to 29 dollars.
In recent months, McGraw's office has gone after collection businesses as part of his plan to protect West Virginia's consumers. In November his office sued two payday lending firms and four collection companies.
As members of the debt collection field, we might scratch our heads and wonder why, in an economy that is suffering and where debt is at an all time high, we can't collect the money that debtors owe. Experts allege that with unemployment rates running so high, it is impossible for consumers to repay their debts. But bad business practices are not going to help the situation either. It may be a knee jerk reaction to try to con consumers out of money, but it is just that. A knee jerk reaction.
by: Mallory Megan.
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