You are here:

Collections Law/Credit card Fraud

Advertisement


Question
My sister got credit cards in my name without me knowing about it back in 2001 and up until 2006 i believe. I found this out when i got my credit report the other day. She did pay off the accounts that were in collections for a long time but they eventually got paid off by her. Is there any way i can clear my credit since i did not get these credit cards without having my sister go to jail if she admitted to doing this?

Answer
Im sure you don't want your sister going to jail over this. I'm sure that would cause a terrible rift between you and all the members of your family even if you didn't care anything about her and I'm quite sure you love your sister dearly no matter what she might have done.

As I am absolutely certain you already know, family is the most important thing in this life. Far more important than any sum of money.

So what is the way out for both of you? Simply don't go claiming that your sister did it to you. Keep quiet about that as far as the debt collectors and other strangers are concerned. You take the consequences for all of it and I'm willing to bet that there is a good chance your sister will pitch in and help if need be but if you do the right things that won't be necessary either.

Here is what you need to do. Simply dispute the debts and demand validation. Learn how to take them to court and win. You become the plaintiff because it is far better to be the plaintiff in a federal court than it is to be the defendant in any court.

Please understand and accept the fact that if you want to keep your sister from going to jail then you are going to end up in court anyway.
They can't force you to file charges against anybody, much less against your sister but they can and probably will sue you if you don't. That means you will end up in court and maybe several times before it is all said and done and you will lose every time unless you start working now and learning how to take care of yourself in court.

So here is how you start your learning process.

Bill Bauer
405-684-9297
405-227-9423

Make money using this search engine instead of Google, Yahoo, MSN or others and get the same results. Get paid in Visa Reward Point cards.
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/qlmqson

RECOMMENDED READING
Subscribe to Creditwrench mailing list on google groups.
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/iomqson Creditwrench google group by email.

http://www.shrinkmylink.com/hhlqson FDCPA EXPERT
www.creditwrench.com/howjudgmentswork.html
www.creditwrench.com/18questions.html
http://shrinkmylink.com/kmlqson
www.creditwrench.com/objections.html
www.creditwrench.com/howcreditwrenchworks.html
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/bnlqson List of community property states
How to answer a summons
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/exlqson

LISTEN TO THESE CREDITWRENCH STUDENTS CHAT ON OUR FRIDAY NIGHT CONFERENCE CALLS.

http://www.creditwrench.tv/MIKEJM-06-27-08.mp3
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/uimqson Mike JM tells about Greentree Financial case.
http://shrinkmylink.com/xsjqson
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/danqson Mark in Rhode Island gets settlement offer

Statute of Limitations for all states
http://shrinkmylink.com/zlwpson

How to set up your hard drive for creditwrench files. Makes them easy to find.
http://tinyurl.com/3lqxaw
The Creditwrench conference calls will start this coming Friday evening at 7 P.M. Central time. It is free and open to the public. There is no cost or obligation other than what it may cost you for the phone call itself. You can join in and ask questions or just listen or whatever you want to do.

Dial-in Number: (712) 432-1601
Access code: 508548#

You might also want to visit our message forum at http://consumers.creditwrench.com to get answers to questions you need answered before next Friday night.  

Collections Law

All Answers


Answers by Expert:


Ask Experts

Volunteer


Creditwrench

Expertise

Debt Collections law, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), federal law, how to properly answer court summons for collection cases, how to prepare federal cases against debt collectors, how to deal with debt collection phone calls.

Experience

I've been an active consumer advocate for more than 40 years and have helped hundreds of people win cases against debt collectors as well as helping them defeat demands for summary judgment lodged against them by banks, debt collectors and defeat mortgage foreclosures and keep their homes.

Education/Credentials
Paralegal courses for the most part.
I have been teaching people how to deal with judgments, mortgage foreclosures and other such problems both on and off the internet for many, many years. I am a Richard Cornforth information provider ever since 2000 and worked with many other organizations and causes since 1980. I was Oklahoma State Chairman for the nationwide drive to defeat the Constitutional Convention which was proposed by various factions within our federal government such as the Council of State Governments and the National Organization of State Governors who were working hard to organize a Constitutional Convention to be held in 1995 for the purpose of rewriting our American Constitution to be more acceptable to the United Nations. I worked with Senator Charles Duke of Colorado and Senator Don Rogers of California and many others across the nation to keep them from getting the number of delegate states required to lawfully hold a Con-Con and we were successful. I have worked with many other legislative issues in Oklahoma and have always been very successful.

©2012 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.