It's not an urban legend, when they target you, you can expect that they'll be dumpster diving your garbage and attempting to trash your life in any way they can. They have corps of staff lawyers and plenty of suckers to pay them. You can expect nothing less from brainwashed zombies.
The old "X-Files" spinoff "Millenium" did a spoof of them a few years ago that was absolutely brilliant. The spokesman was dressed like the Chicago Nazi from "The Blues Brothers" and threatened to sue them for so much as looking at him crosseyed.