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	<p></p><p>When a collection agency calls do you feel you have to respond?  Do you know how to protect yourself ?</p>

	<p></p><p>When they call you can avoid talking to them by hanging up, screening the calls and you can make it legal with a &#8220;cease and desist letter.&#8221; </p>

	<p></p><p>If your decide on this tactic be sure you include your name, address and account number with the letter.  The basic communication you want to get across to the agency is &#8220;do not contact me further about this debt.&#8221; </p>

<div class="post-teaser">This is a preview of: <a href="https://www.cashunclaimed.com/unclaimed-property-blog/personal-finance/tips-on-handling-the-collection-agents" title="Permanent Link: Tips on handling the collection agents" rel="bookmark">Tips on handling the collection agents</a>(764 words, estimated 3:03  mins reading time)</div>{"id":227,"date":"2006-06-05T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/personal-finance\/tips-on-handling-the-collection-agents"},"modified":"2006-06-05T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T17:15:18","slug":"tips-on-handling-the-collection-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/personal-finance\/tips-on-handling-the-collection-agents","title":{"rendered":"Tips on handling the collection agents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- ALL ADSENSE ADS DISABLED -->\n\t<p><\/p><p>When a collection agency calls do you feel you have to respond?  Do you know how to protect yourself ?<\/p>\n\n\t<p><\/p><p>When they call you can avoid talking to them by hanging up, screening the calls and you can make it legal with a &#8220;cease and desist letter.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\t<p><\/p><p>If your decide on this tactic be sure you include your name, address and account number with the letter.  The basic communication you want to get across to the agency is &#8220;do not contact me further about this debt.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser\">This is a preview of: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/personal-finance\/tips-on-handling-the-collection-agents\" title=\"Permanent Link: Tips on handling the collection agents\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tips on handling the collection agents<\/a>(764 words, estimated 3:03  mins reading time)<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashunclaimed.com\/unclaimed-property-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}