Debt Collectors

• Use or threaten force or violence.
• Threaten criminal prosecution, unless the transaction involved a crime.
• Contact the debtor's employer about the debt before a final judgment, except as a statute permits.
• Disclose information affecting the debtor's reputation to others who have no legitimate business need for it.
• Communicate so often, at such unusual hours, or in any other way that can reasonably be expected to abuse or harass.
• Use obscene or grossly abusive language.
• Claim or threaten to enforce a right the collector knows does not exist.
• Send something that looks like legal process or like it came from a government agency or lawyer when it did not.
• Collect without the license the State requires, or break the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

• Md. Code, Com. Law § 14-202

Those are the things a collector in Maryland may not do in collecting or attempting to collect an alleged debt.

• Md. Code, Com. Law § 14-202