Anyone ever had trouble with collection agencies? I'm posting this because today I decided to do something about a bill coming to my house over the last 6 months or more. I had tried in the past to mark it as "not at this address" and return it to the Post Office. This idea just does not work. The bill just keeps coming to my address. Today I broke the law. I opened the letter and got all the info inside, then I called them in Utah and told my story.
The woman I'm talking to wants to tell me the story. I'm wrong because this is the man that lived at my address before me. I love how they cannot be wrong and want to straighten you out. That's when I told this lady her story is impossible. I own this place and have lived here for the last 20 years. I only know the person we are talking about because I opened the letter. I have never known a person with this name and no such person ever stayed here. She seemed reluctant to believe me but finally said they would stop sending the collection letter.
I bet many of you have had a similar experience.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I enjoy these posts because we need to fight back and reading them may help us know how. My firm belief on any bill that you get for dead relatives is that the collector is simply out of luck. You are not responsible for their bills but collection will swear you are and they are trying to get laws passed saying this. At one place I worked a woman there was being harassed to pay her dead mother's bills as they claimed she was "head of her mother's estate." I talked to her for a while and the next time they called she told them "what estate do you mean - she lived in a mobile home and was on Social Security." The hapless collection agency never called her again. Yes dear. They will try and trick you.
DenoPenno
Level 9
Apr 16, 2024
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A collection agency keeps sending registered letters to my son's house, attempting to collect on unpaid bills accrued at a different address, but by the deceased former owner of his house. They are threatening in nature. My son has tried sending them back on numerous occasions, with the words "former occupant deceased" written on the front. They don't stop. We're not sure what the next step will be.
Organist1
Level 8
Apr 16, 2024
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There are state agencies you can complain too...are you over 65? Start with the elder abuse hotline!
I am, but my son isn't. Then again, he is disabled, so maybe that counts!
@Organist1 there are def agencies for that.......state And Federal ones!!!!!
3 years after my FIL died I got a tax bill addressed to him for his car, (our house was never his address) which was his only '"estate" and had been sold right after his death.
The bill had been sold to a collection agency, which I guess is common, no doubt letters to him had gone to the dead-letter office.
The car had been through probate and anything due had been taken care of in the same town the tax bill came from as is required before it could be sold.
To be nice, I called to inform them of the death and this Very pushy guy kept yammering that I had to send him a death certificate (which any such information is public and available to all).
Really ugly about it.
I told him, okay, I Would give him Dad's current address, (not having the ashes, he had been scattered as per his request) which this moron then developed an "I knew you were lying" attitude, and i gave him the funeral home address and phone #.
annewimsey500
Level 7
Apr 16, 2024
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I’ve got collection calls on my cell for some guy I don’t know. I’ve had this number for a long time now. Kept telling them there was no one here by that name. It’s like they don’t believe you. Very frustrating. They finally stopped.
Appleriver
Level 8
Apr 16, 2024
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Yes, Sandi, it is exactly like they don't believe you. That's what I have found. Another thing that happens to me is that I get calls wanting to talk to my ex when she gets behind on some bill. I believe they do this in hopes that you will harbor some anger and tell all that you know. In my case they get surprised because I simply say "she has not been at this number for a very long time now." With the new laws all they can do is hem haw and then say they will remove your number from the list.
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