Believe it or not, debt collectors violate the FDCPA every single day. In fact, a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau states that they received nearly 83,000 complaints from American consumers in 2020 alone. This number represents a 10% increase compared to total debt collector complaints in 2019. The most common type of complaint in 2020 was about debt collectors attempting to collect debts that the consumer did not actually owe.