{"id":187868,"date":"2026-02-21T20:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187868\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:21:14","slug":"credit-one-bank-to-pay-over-10m-to-settle-lawsuit-over-debt-collection-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187868\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit One Bank to pay over $10M to settle lawsuit over debt collection calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(File photo courtesy San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan) <\/p>\n

Credit One Bank <\/a>has agreed to pay just over $10 million to settle a civil consumer protection lawsuit alleging the company or its vendors made repeated, intrusive and harassing debt collection calls, the San Diego County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Friday.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit \u2014 filed by the district attorney\u2019s offices of San Diego, Los Angeles, Riverside and Santa Clara counties \u2014 alleged Credit One and its agents made an excessive and unreasonable amount of calls, even after consumers said they didn\u2019t wish to receive the calls anymore or when the calls were made to wrong numbers.<\/p>\n

The Nevada-based company \u2014 which did not admit wrongdoing \u2014 was ordered to pay $9 million in civil penalties and $1.2 million in investigative costs in connection with the judgment entered Thursday in Riverside County Superior Court.<\/p>\n

The settlement also requires the company to comply with state and federal law involving consumer debt collection, according to the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe District Attorney\u2019s Consumer Protection Unit investigated the public\u2019s complaints that Credit One made excessive, harassing debt collection calls and was in active litigation in order to hold them accountable for their harassing conduct as alleged in the complaint,\u201d San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThis settlement underscores the importance of the work we do to make sure companies are abiding by the state and federal debt collection laws that protect California consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 City News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File photo courtesy San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan) Credit One Bank has agreed to pay just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88336,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-187868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-credit-one-bank","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}