Why not try debt counseling, credit repair, and bankruptcy-related scams?
Sometimes, when people are in difficult financial situations and they fear they cannot afford an attorney, they may listen to the assurances of unscrupulous operators who are all too willing to take their last remaining dollars. These operators appear in a number of types of businesses, but all offer the lure of a cheap, easy way to make financial problems disappear. They invariably leave the person poorer and, in many cases, much worse off than before. Here are some of the scams: Most often our clients have first tried “credit repair” or credit counseling. Those individuals who really need to file bankruptcy find that they have wasted time and resources trying to work with credit counseling. A big problem is that there are many “credit repair” companies who are not associated with the established nonprofit credit counselors in the community. These outfits promise to make credit problems go away. However, they know no magic tricks. Their business model is to take as much money from an
