Debt collectors phone, email, text and write letters 65 million times a year: ACCC study

By Esther Han
Updated April 29 2015 - 12:09pm, first published 9:46am
Mounting up: A new study of the debt collection industry reveals it is larger and more far-reaching than first thought.
Mounting up: A new study of the debt collection industry reveals it is larger and more far-reaching than first thought.

Australians in financial distress are being hounded by debt collectors more than 65 million times a year, in the form of letters, emails, texts and phone calls, a new study shows.

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