Posted on 12/06/2024 5:51:23 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
One of our many great threats, no doubt.
I had some paid medical bills and it’s a good thing I keep records...one time about 1-1/2 years after a service (and payment) I started getting notices from a collection agency about the “unpaid” bills. I sent copies of the payments and expected it to be done - they kept hounding me. I finally wrote a response (with the receipts again) and told them if they bugged me one more time, they, and whoever was enlisting their services, would be paying me and a lawyer....they stopped.
A few years ago I bought something on E-Bay with my credit card. In the process I declined to use Pay-Pal. The cost of the item came out of my Visa account. A year later I started getting dunned by Pay-Pal for that expense. They would not accept receipts and credit card history. It was a $20 item so I sent PP the money. They returned my check saying that I was required to pay in monthly installments. They then said that if I did not comply it would damage my credit which mattered not to me. As far as Visa is concerned I have a high rating because I have never accrued interest on an often used account. I pay it off weekly. PP eventually sent it to a collection agency. 6 years later I am still getting duns from it with threats to sue. They are demanding $10 plus, now, interest. It all goes in the garbage and my credit score is unchanged. I am waiting for the process server with no worries. Needless to say I do not order anything from any site that includes PP as a method of payment.
There was a case awhile ago in the Chicago area. A drive by tax auditor valued a home at $2M instead of $200K. The gent was having a hard time getting the overvaluation taken care and that is why it made the news. I don’t remember if he got it resolved...
It used to be a MAJOR FELONY to send a Fraudulent Demand for Money through the US mail and they ADMIT it was FRAUDULENT because of their Incompetence. Just Put The Government Employee’s in PRISON
I had a pediatrician double bill for an office visit. They hit my husband’s insurance and then mine for the same visit.
Like you, I kept meticulous records in two large file cabinets.
The doozy was they then tried to bill me personally for the same amount.
I sent them copies of both statements and told them that if they continued to bill me, I would report them to both carriers for insurance fraud.
Never heard from them again and we had already changed pediatricians.
Sold for delinquent taxes.
How did this happen?
A self answering question ain’t home ownership grand Moe.
You have no recourse, no remedy and no consequences inure to the stupid civil servants who make these screwed up messes and sometimes losses to us.
Correct approach—the best way to deal with this stuff is escalate quickly and fanatically—threatening lawsuits in writing and early.
Any flak at all and get a local cheap attorney to put the lawsuit threat on their letterhead.
Most organizations will not want to deal with that—and will do what they have to do to make you go away.
5th
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