Bill collectors fake names.

Billy Shafer

Well-known Member
Got one this morning. From TRICAN WELL SRV. Since I was waiting on a call from a field tech. I answered it. It was from a bill collector trying to collect money from my son. Who died six years ago. Isn't it illegal to claim to be one company and be another.
 
Billy sorry abut your son but I guess if I was a bill collector (no desire to be) or had certain other jobs I would want a name and address and not my real one!!!!
 
I get messages too from a slick collection outfit named NCC CORP or something like that. I guess their caller id would never say JOES COLLECTION AGENCY. What I really hate is for them to be able screw up you credit for a $15 doctor bill.
 
It is in fact illegal to call some one for say there sons or brother or other such debt. You can call the state A.G and report the place and give them the phone number and they are suppose to look into it and give them a good talking to
 
Before they can get in two words, tell them that you are recording the phone call. Then actually do it.
If they are still on the line after that, have them give their name, address and phone number to reach them.
Then you have a weapon to use against them when you turn it into your state's attorney general.
 
I get quite a few calls from bill collectors on my work phone. It seem Tanisha puts my number on credit applications, and doesn't pay her bills.
 

There's something you can do, actually, but it need more time. It's illegal for them to call you multiple times. I read an article, maybe similar with your case at http://www.whycall.me/news/judge-rules-that-targets-harassing-debt-collection-calls-crossed-the-line/ about suing a debt collector because of their violations against FDCPA and TCPA law. You could sue them, but it needs more time and maybe money, but if it annoys you too much, I think you can give it a try.
 
Our local hospital once sent me a bill for a visit that my insurance company had already paid. Then sent it to a collection agency when I refused to pay it on the grounds that my insurance had already paid it.

The collection agency threatened to take me to court when I refused to pay them. I said, "I wish you would. I'd love to see the hospital administrator explain to a judge why they billed me for something my insurance company had already paid". End of story.
 
Had a similar thing happen. Wife and I were in an auto accident a few years back and were taken to local ER. This was far, far from home also. Anyway, our auto insurance paid for the ER visit 100%, yet we kept getting billed by the ER. I'd mail, then fax proof that the bill was paid, yet still we'd get notices. Finally the stupid hospital sent the bill to a collection agency, but I kinda think it was in-house rather than some independent collector. Finally took a copy of the bill in to our local agent, who got VERY irate! She took matters into her own hands on our behalf and we never heard from that place again. I gotta say, this agent is good as gold!!
 
We're back to "there's nothing you can do about it" because all you have is the SPOOFED phone number and company name. The real bill collector is a phantom that may as well be untraceable, for all the taxpayer dollars that would be wasted hunting them down only to give them a stern finger-wagging. We all know the stern finger-waggings don't do a darn thing to curb the activity.

On top of that the abuse happens so much that law enforcement couldn't hope to put a dent in it even if they let all the murderers, rapists, wife beaters, and drunk drivers go, and dedicated all their resources into these abusive calling practices. Then we're back to giving them a stern finger-wagging because the law doesn't provide a penalty that is an effective deterrent. Fines? Good luck collecting from a corporation that suddenly went bankrupt. Jail? You're going to put a faceless corporation in jail? For how long? At what cost? For making "mean" phone calls?

I've gotten to where I screen calls from numbers I don't recognize. If it's important they will leave a voicemail. Most don't. Why do people think they need to answer the phone every time it rings out of some misguided sense of "courtesy?"
 

That situation looks to me like the collector just did their job and whoever didn't pay their doctor bill fouled their own credit. Not the collectors fault.

My ex-wife was a collector for an oil company credit card division 40 years ago, and even in those days before people turned so vicious as they are now, the collectors put up with a constant stream of abuse from worthless deadbeats
 

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