CFPB claims debt collection firm Forster & Garbus robo-sued thousands on behalf of Citibank, Discover, others

During the foreclosure crisis, a number of lenders, servicers, law firms, and others engaged in a practice where employees basically rubber-stamped thousands of foreclosure cases without reviewing any of the relevant details. That practice came to be known as robo-signing. Now, a new lawsuit from the CFPB sheds light on a similar practice that apparently exists within the debt collection industry – let’s call it “robo-suing.”