In recent months, we’ve seen many regulators and legal authorities in jurisdictions across the country signify official concern that an increasing number of companies 債務舒緩 which operate in the debt cures business today, are essentially debt relief scam operations that are out to cheat and dupe an overburdened debt-ridden population in a bad national economy. The most recent among those, is Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in New York, whose office had subpoenaed some 14 debt relief operations and one law firm in May 2009 from across the nation for investigations into their debt settlement operations.
Quite coincidentally, that subject is, in fact, actually the subject matter of a recent full scale major independent investigation of the industry conducted by one reputable, independent online review organization that investigates online products and services or companies, especially in the debt cures business field, for their quality and authenticity. The results of that investigation is startling, showing that some 82. 5% of the test sample group of website-based debt relief operations used (165 out of 200), were basically debt relief SCAMS. And that only 17. 5 of them were of any legitimacy. There are some 12 companies nationally which the evaluations showed were of great quality, and one company that is of exceptional quality and rank exceptionally superior as the most trustworthy, and Number #1 debt relief company in America. “Consumers seem more and more today to be turning to debt relief operations for ways to pay off debts in response to the current American economic recession… most of those companies are competing to out do each other in their claims that they have the best debt relief programs. In constant advertisements on the Internet, radio and TV, they purport to provide excellence and the best services to customers on ways to pay off debts… Consequently, finding a truly good debt settlement company by a consumer under such circumstances, is not at all an easy task. ”
The report adds, “With so many companies out there, they all soon start looking and sounding alike after a while, as are their TV, radio, and newspaper ads. So, how in the world can the average person tell what are good debt relief companies from the bad ones or the debt relief scams? ”
Basically, using the rigorous evaluation and ranking system devised by its review experts, called the “Key Debt Relief Evaluation Criteria” or KDREC, the review team scored and ranked 12 debt relief companies from across the country as ranking as the TOP DOZEN Online debt relief companies in the industry having the highest levels of professionalism, reliability and credibility in the critical criteria areas of evaluation for the industry — accreditation by the Bureau of Better Business and by recognized certification institution for the debt relief industry, professional reputation, charges and cost of service to consumer, results of company background checks on expertise, quality of personnel, personnel education and training, length of time in the industry, past record in the business and in delivery of the services, customer satisfaction, etc. Over four-fifths (some 82. 5%) of the test sample group of website-based debt relief operations used (165 out of 200), were basically what you’d call debt relief SCAMS or fraud operations — that is, they were merely worthless website operations that have no business at all on the Internet peddling any debt cures business to consumers, and at best bordering on fraud, with no value-added and absolutely the kind of sites that should be a complete no-no for any and all wise consumers to shop in.
Just 17. 50% of the 200 company websites reviewed in our test sample (35 of the 200) are legitimate debt relief operations that are seemingly responsible business operations and fairly reliable, although the detailed extent of the quality of their services was variable in degree from one company to another.
Some 12 companies in the sample group emerged, using certain defined additional evaluation criteria (such as the service affordability for the average person, security of website, evidence of large amount of savings to clients or whether company has successfully reduced millions of dollars of consumer and small business debt, customer satisfaction response times, flexibility of the program based on what a customer may have available on a monthly basis, etc), to additionally assess them, as the best debt relief programs, the very TOP DOZEN online debt relief companies in the whole country,
Across the entire country, there is one company, located in San Diego, California, that stands way out over and above the shoulders of any others in the nation’s industry as the Number #1 ranked debt relief company and program, the most reputable, competent and reliable one of its kind in the entire industry.
From the research data from the field, when the option of debt settlement has been exercised for debtors through the hands of a debt settlement or debt consolidation company who is incompetent, or of staff that is inexperienced, consumers involved in those debts have often lost money, while some actually cause people to deteriorate further down to a worse financial condition and greater hardship which often force them to file bankruptcy, when, in fact, their purpose for going for the debt settlement option, in the first place, had been to avoid filing for bankruptcy. Thus, according to this report, this is the quintessential kind of customer who needs the most to avoid being a debt relief scam victim.