BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s attorney general has ordered three unlicensed debt collectors to stop doing business in the state.
Wayne Stenejem says the out-of-state companies violated North Dakota’s consumer fraud and debt collection laws by making harassing calls and false statements and using deceptive practices and threats. Cease-and-desist orders were issued against California-based IKS & Associates, New York-based Portfolio Recovery Management and Georgia-based Global Management Acquisition Firm and its officer Walter Hargrove.
Stenehjem says all three have ignored communications from the state’s Consumer Protection Division.
