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Bill Collectors Now Chasing Dead Debtors
Newsmax ^ | March 6, 2009 | Gene J. Koprowski

Posted on 03/07/2009 1:07:43 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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How low can you go? I believe in paying one's bills, but this is over the top!
1 posted on 03/07/2009 1:07:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From my cold dead wallet.


2 posted on 03/07/2009 1:11:00 AM PST by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am not responsible for any debts which I did not personally incur. Have a nice day. Click.


3 posted on 03/07/2009 1:18:26 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Till I cut off my landline this year, I still got one or two calls a year about bills from my uncle who died 19 years ago.

I started out polite but all I would say in the following years was F off and hang up the phone.


4 posted on 03/07/2009 1:25:46 AM PST by packrat35 (You could make a fortune as a politician if you have the moral standards of a convicted pedophile)
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Caller ID made it possible to keep our landline.

We just do not answer any non-local calls if we do not recognize the number, or at a minimum, the area code.

For a while, we were getting solicitation calls from charities at a rate of one every 15 minutes, now down to about 2 a day (we recognize the numbers).

5 posted on 03/07/2009 1:30:46 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: packrat35
Till I cut off my landline this year, I still got one or two calls a year about bills from my uncle who died 19 years ago.

You think that's bad?

I kept getting calls from first cousins I never knew existed demanding child support. ;-)

6 posted on 03/07/2009 1:36:43 AM PST by Polybius
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

it gets worse than that. They’ll randomly call anyone with the same last name as the debtor and demand payment. I’ve received collection calls for people I’m unrelated to.


7 posted on 03/07/2009 1:41:39 AM PST by kms61
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh! But they help to mitigate “brand risk” for the companies trying to collect from the relatives of the dead...look at how very nice their website looks.

http://www.dcmservices.com/challenges_brand_risk.php

While most people on this website understand that such calls need to be referred to the Estate attorney; many of our fellow citizens may be deceived. It is really despicable.


8 posted on 03/07/2009 1:41:46 AM PST by garandgal
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To: All; garandgal

Check out this quote on their career page:

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”

- Mother Teresa

http://www.dcmservices.com/careers.php


9 posted on 03/07/2009 1:44:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." Barry Goldwater)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d say sue the estate. Hopefully there’s none left as the proceeds have been distributed to heirs.


10 posted on 03/07/2009 2:17:27 AM PST by WildWeasel
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When one dies shouldn’t the outstanding bills be paid off, before any of the relatives grab a lamp shade?


11 posted on 03/07/2009 2:25:01 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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I’d say sue the estate. Hopefully there’s none left as the proceeds have been distributed to heirs.

Why shouldn't legitimate loans be repaid? If money was paid out of an estate in error, where is the honor and personal integrity in not returning it?

12 posted on 03/07/2009 2:31:54 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see debt people.


13 posted on 03/07/2009 3:06:32 AM PST by Vet_6780 ("I see debt people")
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To: Vet_6780

“Is my name on the debt”?
“No? Pound sand, Mordecai”...


14 posted on 03/07/2009 3:11:15 AM PST by chadwimc (Proud to be an infidel ! Allah fubar !!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Years ago my girlfriend ran up large credit card bills and was killed in an auto crash. Since we lived together, the CC people called me, threatened me and I knew I was NOT responsible for any of her debt. I’d tell them they were welcome to come get whatever she bought as I was going to give the clothes to the Salvation Army. That made them quit. I did, however, run across a lot of stuff still in store packages that I took back, credited her account and lowered her bottom line. So, this is not something new. Never promise to repay anything you are not legally responsible for. After that first payment, YOU have assumed responsibility.


15 posted on 03/07/2009 3:13:36 AM PST by Safetgiver (America: Taking Affirmative Action to the extreme.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another thing that is happening is con artist are sending estates fictitious bills hoping to get the estate to pay for a purchase or service that was never contracted for.

My wife’s uncle died and this is what happened. We just told them to file their complaint with the court, and get a court order for payment. It never happened. All legitimate bills were paid of course.


16 posted on 03/07/2009 3:28:27 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: Mark was here

When one dies shouldn’t the outstanding bills be paid off, before any of the relatives grab a lamp shade?

I’m not an attorney, but I think legitimate bills should be submitted to the estate within a certain time limit. If that’s not done, creditors have no legal right to dun the heirs.


17 posted on 03/07/2009 3:36:59 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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I'm sorry about your girlfriend. Thanks for sharing. May God comfort both of you.
18 posted on 03/07/2009 3:52:29 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Smokin' Joe

They started in on me not a month after my father passed away. He didn’t have many debts, just a few small ones, but I had to go ahead and pay them out of my own funds as they were turning stuff out to “collection agencies” (evidently bone pickers)immediately after I wrote them notification of his death and my intention to pay within weeks.
Once they learned of his death, they hardly waited until they had sent out their first bills after his death to start harrassing me, so I paid them myself in order to get them to quit calling and got his estate settled out a few weeks later. (I would have paid them as my Daddy would have NEVER let his bills go unpaid.)


19 posted on 03/07/2009 3:55:35 AM PST by Twinkie (Obama is NOT Reagan !)
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How low can you go? I believe in paying one's bills, but this is over the top!

Survivors owe zip. I think, though, if there is an estate, it needs to make restitution of all just debts. It's been a bazillion years since I took any law classes, but I seem to remember that as first on a will, even if the will is written by statute by the state.

20 posted on 03/07/2009 3:59:12 AM PST by stevem
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