Boo-hoo-hoo... Collection agencies want email addys and cell phone #'s

what a load of hooey... the advantage has always been with the debt collectors, particularly in a society that lives on credit... so they can't collect some of their money... so what... the damning info will STILL go on the credit report and the folks who don't ante up will STILL find themselves screwed in perpetuity... besides, tell me that it won't still be possible to evade the collection agencies simply by screening with caller id and/or tagging unsolicited email as spam...

The debt collection industry urged the U.S. government on Wednesday to lift a decades old ban against using e-mail accounts or cellphone numbers to contact consumers who have fallen behind in their payments.

As more Americans drop home telephone land lines and rely on cellphones, debt collectors are finding it harder to reach delinquent account holders and the industry potentially faces higher losses, industry executives said at a forum sponsored by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

"If we can't contact somebody, that's a big problem," said Robert DiGennaro, chief executive officer of Austin, Texas- based debt collection company Collins Financial Services Inc.

screw 'em... too damn much of our personal info is floating around out there as it is...

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