You're right, most people coming here are debtors, not creditors. However, the practices of the majority of the collection agencies (including collection law firms) MAKES them nothing more than SCUMBAGS. If you've ever been verbally abused, harrassed, screamed at, threatened with all manner of ILLEGAL actions from a collector - even some CREDITOR collection employees - then you would certainly agree to them being classified as SCUMBAGS. The FDCPA was enacted for a reason - to put the brakes on the abusive and deceptive collection industry. If you don't engage in any of those kinds of practices, then the moniker in question doesn't apply to you .