<div id="subtitle">Debtors complain of abusive bill collectors; the bill for the easy-credit years has come due</div><div><p>After several years in which Americans were buying stuff on credit they couldn't afford, a rapidly increasing number are complaining about getting harassed and abused by bill collectors.</p ...

<div id="subtitle">Consumers told refusing to pay will hurt their credit rating</div><div><p>Consumers around the country are complaining thatAfni, Inc., a debt collection agency, has been calling and mailing, demanding that consumers pay old Verizon telephone debts, some of them as much as 10 years old. </p ...