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Tape That Call!

Your Debts, Your Rights
• The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• What's prohibited
• Stop the madness
• Tape that call
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These states do allow you to secretly tape phone calls:

Alabama	Nebraska
Alaska	Nevada
Arizona	New Jersey
Arkansas	New Mexico
Colorado	New York
District of Columbia	North Carolina
Georgia	North Dakota
Hawaii	Ohio
Idaho	Oklahoma
Indiana	Rhode Island
Iowa	South Carolina
Kansas	Tennessee
Kentucky	Texas
Louisiana	Utah
Maine	Virginia
Minnesota	West Virginia
Mississippi	Wisconsin
Missouri	Wyoming

In 15 other states, you can tape with permission -- since it is highly unlikely that the collector wants to be on tape, she or he may just hang up.

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July 5 2008

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