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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 17 > Lots of debt? Make the creditor prove it

Lots of debt? Make the creditor prove it

By Sonja Ryst / The Bulletin
September 17, 2009

PHILADELPHIA — Jenny Vo of Philadelphia ekes by as a manicurist and single mother raising two sons. So when a debt collector told her in February 2008 she owed $14,237.38 on her credit card, she was stunned.

She knew she had charged purchases of food, clothing, and household supplies, and she....

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