A couple of weeks
back, a debt collection agency based in Glendale, Calif., agreed to pay $1
million to settle complaints from the Federal Trade Commission over its business
practices. The agency, which went by the name "National
Attorney Collection Practices," had been harassing delinquent borrowers with
debt collection notices bearing an illustration of Uncle Sam's fist upending
some hapless soul and "shaking him down" for loose change.
