Can You Keep Debt Collectors Out of Your Social Media?

Yes, they can slide into your DMs, but you can kick them right out

Andy Spears
3 min readMar 3, 2022

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Yes, it’s true. That new friend request you have pending could be from a debt collector. New rules from regulators allow collection agencies to use social media as a means of contacting a borrower to collect on a debt.

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .