they are talking about the IRS...correct?
I know of one company who abuses lax Florida laws. They buy a 25 year old debt which cannot be legally collected, mail the person a couple of threatening letters then file suit in their county using the mail and telephone.
The person is generally poor, can’t afford a lawyer and don’t show up for the telephone call at the judge’s secretaries office and they automatically are given a totally illegal judgement. Some of the blame clearly goes on the Judge who allows this without taking the trouble to find out if the debt is even legal.
When the person dies, the judgement collects from their estate.
The company is Portfolio Recovery and the feds could not find a better company to go after.
Yeah...just wait until that army of 16,000 new IRS agents starts setting their hooks into American citizens who refuse to bow down before the State. Then we’ll really see some “unscrupulous debt collectors.”