• AG Ferguson: Renton-based debt collector will pay more than $1.6M over

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    Full restitution to 1,400 Washingtonians who made payments for old,
    legally unenforceable debts

    SEATTLE -- Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that
    Renton-based collection agency Convergent will pay more than $1.6
    million over misleading letters it sent to Washingtonians. The letters contained "settlement offers" to settle debts, including student
    loans, but failed to disclose that Convergent could not enforce the
    debt in court. The term "settlement offer" deceptively suggested the possibility of litigation to collect the debt. As a result of the
    Attorney General's case, the 1,405 Washingtonians who sent money to
    Convergent will get back the money they sent to the company, plus
    interest -- a total of nearly $710,000.

    https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-renton-based-debt-collector-will-pay-more-16m-over-deceptive-letters

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