Posted on 01/15/2009 10:23:34 AM PST by Puppage
A New York couple is haunted by calls from credit agencies wanting to collect debt their dead son owed.
Roco and Laurie Crimeni's 27-year-old son Vincent collapsed and died nearly a year ago of a sudden heart attack while he was playing softball.
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State or Federal? According to what I have listened to several million can be lawyers fee from someone who violates Federal Law as these people are doing.
You’re welcome.
Laurie Crimeni said her son had no assets or estates to pay the debt he left behind, and all of the accounts were exclusively in her son’s name.
because he probably lived in their basement.
I still get several calls a week (if not daily) from credit agencies looking for my ex-wife and I have been divorced for over 11 years, have lived at two different homes and changed my number twice. They’re relentless.
I simply have to screen all my calls.
Glad that solution worked for you. I used get at least one call a week from credit agencies and lawyers looking for a woman who has my telephone number printed on her checks.
A couple of months ago the calls stopped, right about the time I got a call from a correctional institution looking to verify charges for telephone calls. I figure she’s in jail now and trying to scam their telephone service. LOL
Not sure.
His brother was out of work awhile (he cannot seem to get along with ANYONE being his boss), so....
He likes to spend money, so I think he had indeed run up a lot of CC debt.
Hubby asked the caller what address and phone # they had for the brother and told them it was correct and agreed to pass along a message (which he did pass to his brother).
yes, it would be a wonderous FEDERAL class action.
The violation of the collection law is independent of the actual debt.
11 years?
I believe the longest statute of limitations in the USA on this stuff (absent an actual judgment) is six years.
negative information is on a credit report for 10.
The law regarding credit reports needs to change to drop negative information after the statute of limitations runs out.
There are regulations (federal) regarding attempting to collect and uncollectable debt.
They are not hounding me for money, I don’t owe them anything. They are trying to locate my deadbeat ex-wife who continues to build up bad debt.
Since her credit report shows me as an ex-husband they figure they can harass me for her current contact information.
I would give it to them if I thought it would stop the calls but I know it won’t (I tried it before) and the only people I dislike more than my ex-wife (who put be in $32 K worth of credit card debt and then left me holding the bag) is credit card collectors.
collectors are not allowed to do that either.
you are legally a stranger to your ex wife. They can not discuss or harrass you to get to her. period.
still, after 11 years the are precluded from attempting to collect an uncollectable debt. another legal violation.
What happened to the items that he purchased with the credit cards?
Don't you love watching the government give our tax dollars to these same rip off millionaires and bankers?
As long as they all get theirs, they couldn’t care less about the sheeple. Government is rewarding those that bankroll them. They heard us yell loud and clear. They rule, not govern.
Here's the problem - we're the people who "bankroll" them.
Really, the taxpayers pay for all the perks - the money they receive - the money they give away - the rent on the buildings they do "business" in - everything.
It's like a stadium a town builds - the taxpayers will pay for 99% of it and some kiss-ass company will come in and give the "city" ( read mayor and cronies) 1% and get naming rights. Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I sent copies of the Divorce Decree, the Legal Notices I published in my local papers to all of them.
When they continued I instructed my attorney to file suit under the Fair Credit Act.
When all was said and done I'd 'won' a 15,000.00 judgment against the worst offendor.
I hired a Collection Agency to get my money for me. It was worth every dime of the fee I paid them.
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Thats my impression.
That’s a given. The only money government generates is by taking it out of our pockets.
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