Debt collector busted for racist calls

It's happened to all of us: You work hard, and you live a life free of luxuries just to get by. Inevitably, however, a debt collector bombards you with countless harassing phone calls over debts you don't owe. Often, they claim to be trying to collect debts from somebody who you barely know or don't know at all.

My book 'A Mind's Smithereens' contains a brief vignette describing how I seem to have gotten rid of these criminals - at least for the past 8 months or so.

But what if the debt collector fills their messages with vulgarities and racial slurs? That's exactly what happened to a Texas man.

The Pennsylvania-based Advanced Call Center Technologies shelled the man with repeated racist calls claiming he owed $200 - though in fact he didn't owe a damn thing. The firm called him almost around the clock - from 6:30 AM to 11 PM.

But the recipient of these calls fought back. He saved the calls as evidence, and now a jury has made the debt collector pay $1,500,000 over the calls.

Now who's in debt?

(Source: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/vulgar-voice-mails-cost-debt-collection-agency-15-million/19500256)