Warning to the Ladies. Debt collecors on the prowl.

Warning to the ladies.

It appears from the following posting on a debt collector message board that some debt collectors are looking for that chance at a "little something extra" when they call. If any ladies out there have been approached for that "little something extra" in exchange for not having to pay the debt I'd like to know about it.

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bingo Senior Member Joined: October 12 2004 Online Status: Offline Posts: 190	Posted: February 14 2005 at 9:50pm | IP Logged To date a debtor if you were the collector working the account? (I hope so) __________________ It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness but the wax is melting into the carpet and the drapes are on fire.

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 11:13pm | IP Logged

Unless you "said you'd pay" off her debt in exchange for, um, favors, I
think as long as you actually paid it, and not accidentally posted a BIF
with no remit, then it's ok (no past experience here, mind you. I think.
Ask Derek. He's done that for some debtors in W. Hollywood.....And if
you promised to delete the TL for something "extra" well.... more power
to ya!
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The depravity of these despicable characters has no limits! They are simply evil people.

I know of a lady here in Oklahoma City who got hooked into just exactly that sort of thing. She was being hounded to death by some scumbag debt collector over a $38,000 debt she knew that they could never pay off. The "offer" was that if she would go to Delaware and spend at least 3 days and nights with the scumbag he would see to it that the debt would go away and she would never be bothered with it again.

So she drew the money for the round trip ticket from their savings account and told her husband that she was going to go visit her mother.

Of course, she told her mother that she was going to visit "a friend" and just needed to get away for a few days so that if her husband called to tell him that she had gone to a friends house and would be leaving from there to go back home. Of course, the friend had no phone.

The lady said that although she did put out that "little something extra" she was not abused in any way. From what she described the debt collector was apparently fairly well off.

When she got back home she started asking her husband what he owed money for saying she wanted to start getting their credit in shape to buy a house. He said that he didn't really owe anybody anything except the bills each month and maybe a couple of hundred to a friend who had sold the couple a pickup truck.

Since they had only been married a little over a year she asked what he might owe from his last marriage and he said that he owed nothing at all from that either. So she told him that some debt collector had called claiming that he owed $38,000 and he told her he never owed that kind of money to anybody in all his life.
He said it must have been a case of mistaken identity.

I really didn't think all that much about it until I ran into these two messages on a debt collector's message board and then, remembering what this lady I know told me about her experience it seems at least plausable that this type of thing might be happening a lot more than one might imagine. If you have been victimized in this manner or know of someone that has