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Reading it bought back memories if reading "Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld" [1] and surprisingly Buffalo features prominently in that book too ;) Anyone who is in the USA and has debt of any kind (i.e. they are still breathing) should read the book.
I was generally left with a fairly positive impression of debt collectors as scrappy but out on the fringe individuals who were making a living cleaning up the financial ecosystem. The companies who sell their debt to these collectors came off poorly which is basically every corporate in the country. Mind blowing.
[1]
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Paper-Chasing-Street-Underworld/d...
(2017)
Previous:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15862278
It should be illegal to sell debt that can be traced back to the original borrower.
We know it's all too easy to print a page with identifying information on somebody with arbitrary sum attached. It should be illegal to harass somebody with information like this - I'd assume if there is more, like e.g. a signed contract, it's easier to trace the borrowing.
“You owe me 1M dollars.
No I don’t where or why.”