A “debtor” is someone who owes money.
A “creditor” is a person or company that a debtor owes money to. A creditor can be a person, a bank or a company.
A “debt collector” is someone who tries to collect money from people who owe money to someone besides the debt collector. In other words, a debtor promises to pay an original creditor, but a third person (a debt collector) is trying to collect that debt. Some debt collectors are lawyers.
The law has special rules to help protect debtors from debt collectors.
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