Zombie Debt: How Collectors Trick Consumers...

[magmue]

... Into Reviving Old Debt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...reviving-dead-debts/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Interesting Washington Post article on how debt collectors are sometimes able to revive old debts, and sue anew. I didn't know that there are statutes of limitations on debt, or that if you're past it, and then make a small payment, that they can come after you again.

To quote Baron von Frankenstein: "It's alive, it's alive, it's aliiiiive"

 

[WVBaker]

... Into Reviving Old Debt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...reviving-dead-debts/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Interesting Washington Post article on how debt collectors are sometimes able to revive old debts, and sue anew. I didn't know that there are statutes of limitations on debt, or that if you're past it, and then make a small payment, that they can come after you again.

To quote Baron von Frankenstein: "It's alive, it's alive, it's aliiiiive"

"After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."