Consider the following hypothetical situation.
Let's say you worked for a collection agency. They agreed to pay you 1 gold ounce per week for your labor.
One day, your boss fires you for unprofessional behaviour. You've gone into debt for luxuries like food and rent. You're out of work and a different collection agency is phoning you every day.
The collection agency starts calling your family demanding the money they owe you.
Instead of paying a debt they don't owe, your family whines and bitches about the collection agency being "rude" or "abusive". The collection agency comes to a website like this and finds out the reason they don't get paid is because of unprofessional people that actually got the people too angry to pay the debt now... So they fire the unprofessional losers they had hired...
Now the problem is, a collection agency is no different than a person. They buy debts they don't need, in the hopes that they can pay them back. Wouldn't you think the company was a loser company?
Wouldn't you think it's ridiculous that they can even dream of going after the unemployed and ill, and sick in the hopes of scaring them into paying a debt they might have been able to pay had the economy or their health, or their job, not gone sour...
No, they bought that item in the hopes they would pay it off.
So why is it different when you people who bought the debt for pennies on the dollar try to take advantage of other people's situations... Why are YOU the victim...?
You too, chose to take on a debt with no guarantee it would be paid, but you did it willingly, knowing it might not be paid, but thinking that you can threaten and manuipulate people into paying it.... I believe the legal term for using threats to collect a debt is extortion....
ONLY GO AFTER LEGAL BILLS. DON"T LIE AND THREATEN. MAKE SURE THE DEBT IS REALLY OWED - BE HONEST. Don't be a lemon.