Erasing Our Debt

About a week ago I received a notice in the mail that my account for a magazine subscription was turned over for collections. My subscription to said magazine ended about 6 months ago. I had received numerous letters in the mail that I needed to renew my subscription. Never did I think that they send this off to a company that would try to make me thing I was in big trouble.

The letter is from the National Credit Audit Corporation. Sounds professional, doesn't it? It even looks like it is a true debt collection company that is trying to collect this "debt". They go as far as to say "As we have not heard from you, we assume you agree you DO owe $16.98 for a subscription you ordered and never paid for." Well I never ordered an extension on my subscription, you idiots. Even further, they use a scare tactic to get you to pay by putting the always there statement from a debt collector.

Notice: This communication is from a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I googled National Credit Audit Corporation and found an article about it on Consumerist.com. Found out it was a scam and all I had to do was call the number on the letter to get them to stop. That was simple. But still, it ticked me off.

Now I'm off to write a nasty letter to the magazine company that forwarded my information off to this piece of crap company.

Just another lesson in the world of collections: Always research it if you don't believe you owe that money or if you've never heard of the company.

Labels: collections

// posted by Ryan @ 11:50 AM