A CA/JDB that will be receiving a nice delivery in a few days from the U.S. Marshall's Service answered the following to a BBB dispute, any wonder why the dispute was listed as unresolved.

(Just so it's not obvious who it is, I'll paraphrase.)

Another dispute, they told someone that they'd be going to jail if they didn't pay in 45-60 minutes...

But, the we sold your account, but you can pay us anyway, response takes the cake!

Under FTC Settlement, Debt Buyer Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million for Alleged Consumer Deception

I mentioned this a few times, and was always asked where I found it. :)

Guess what, when I was looking up the CFPB/FTC divisions of powers, I found it.

Page 10; paragraphs 30-34.

Even though in 48 states the debt isn't extinguished, them not mentioning that the debt is time-barred, to entice into entering into a payment arrangement to re-start the SOL was a false & misleading representation.

"If consumers knew, in connection with a past-statute debt, that Asset had no legal means to enforce collection of the debt, or understood that making a partial payment or a written to promise to pay would revive it, some consumers would likely choose not to make a payment or a written promise to pay."