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The sentence in question:

> 借金が雪だるま式に増えてってるって噂だよ

My best guess is that the first って is a contracted from of いる. Whatever it is
that we're addressing seems to be suffering from a financial crisis. Then why
not put it like 「増えているって噂だよ」, rather than what it is?
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translation subsidiary-verbs particle-って
I'm wrestling with the first って in 借金が雪だるま式に増えてってるって噂だよ
This 増えてってる is a contraction of 増えて **い** ってる (or 増えて **い** って **い** る).

Here いって(い)る is the progressive of the [subsidiary verb
いく](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/43482/1628). (This verb derives from
行く, but being a subsidiary verb is usually written in _kana_.)

Attaching to a main verb (here 増える) it characterizes the action described by
this verb as ongoing or as getting stronger.

> 借金が雪だるま式に増えてってるって噂だよ
>
> people say that debt keeps on multiplying like a snowball effect, but that's
> not true

* * *

For more general information about subsidiary verbs see [What is a subsidiary
verb?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18952/1628)
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