It's all worthless anymore, Tony. Here is Ontario law on old debts (valid debt or not)
https://www.moneyproblems.c...tute-of-limitations/For the past several years these anal apertures
https://www.cbvcollections.com/company/ have been buying up old-old cell phone accounts and harassing the living crap out of people (and destroying their credit rating) if your name is in ANY way connected to the old account.
I spent 2 years telling them to piss off over a phone that wasn't mine. It belonged to a company I worked for (and their account) back in 2011-2012 (LONG past limitations), but since it was issued to me my name is associated as a user. I guess the company I worked for stiffed the cell phone company, because getting rid of the genital wart collections company is next to impossible. They don't seem to understand NOT MY PHONE, NOT MY ACCOUNT, NOT MY DEBT AND NOT MY PROBLEM.
Its a scam. They are basically scaring people and holding them hostage with the credit rating, then recording all conversations trying to get people to admit an debt is theirs (old and long forgotten and a lot of times non-existent) then using the loophole in the statute to try and re-set the 2 years. Once they do that, they can go to court and win the case.
The "trick" they use is, if you say "huh?" "Maybe" "I don't know"...ANYTHING besides a firm negative response..they "construe" it as acknowledged the debt for limitations purposes. Its a Canada-wide problem with these prolapsed hemorrhoids and they have been fined a few times for it, but just operate the calls out of different jurisdictions. They were calling me from Quebec and BC on my Text Now number, and I finally had to get a new number to get rid of them because I sure aint spending 10 grand to go to BC and take them to court to put a stop to them (what it would take and they know it)
Lesson is, unless you know who is calling don't answer the phone. NEVER say "yes" to ANY question, and DONT give out any information at all.
If you REALLY want to have some fun with these scammers, when they call they will ask "Is this Joe Blow ?". Just keep asking them questions. Who is calling ? Which Joe Blow are you looking for ? Can you provide more identifying information ? Are you sure its Joe and not Joseph ?...They will giver themselves a brain annurism they get so mad trying to get you to admit you are Joe Blow.
[This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 04-25-2019).]