Mahjong157
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I had an old debt with Discover that was charged off in 2001. Another collector, (Atlantic Finance) bought the debt and began immediately harassing me for payment. I was inexperienced at the time and offered payment I could afford, which they refused and harassed me continually, calling me names, threatening me, etc. This eventually stoped.
A few days ago a man showed up at my door at 7pm knowxking. My partner works nights and I do not answer my door to srangers when I am home alone. I heard this person eventually go to my neighbors door and then o-pen my mailbox and walk down the street. This man was in street clothes. When I went to my mailbox there was a packof papers I'll call psudo-legal as the dates were scratched out, etc., but it look4ed like it was a summons to appear in our local city court for payment on this debt, with an added 18% interest supposedly accumulating over the totoal time of the debt, starting in 1997. When I did a search on the attorney, Guy Mitchell Lewitt,447 6th Street, 11215; I could not find them listed with the bar association or even a local directory. These papers were not in an envelope. My mail carrier says it is illegal for anyone to put anything in my mailbox other than mail and that I should report it.
A few days later the same thing happened but the guy said he was looking for my partner, (who lost his job and is trying to get money up to file a bankruptcy). THIS man said he was a process server and my partner asked him to leave our properry. He dropped his paperwork on the ground, came back sometime before the next day and also put another copy in our mailbox., which was again not in an envelope. His paperwork was differnet and had an old fashioned "FILED" stamp, dated 12/29/2005. But it was also a summons on a more currrent debt of his, with another attorney's name. He did not identify himself by name, show any identification and my partner did not identify himself either.
Is any of this legal?
A few days ago a man showed up at my door at 7pm knowxking. My partner works nights and I do not answer my door to srangers when I am home alone. I heard this person eventually go to my neighbors door and then o-pen my mailbox and walk down the street. This man was in street clothes. When I went to my mailbox there was a packof papers I'll call psudo-legal as the dates were scratched out, etc., but it look4ed like it was a summons to appear in our local city court for payment on this debt, with an added 18% interest supposedly accumulating over the totoal time of the debt, starting in 1997. When I did a search on the attorney, Guy Mitchell Lewitt,447 6th Street, 11215; I could not find them listed with the bar association or even a local directory. These papers were not in an envelope. My mail carrier says it is illegal for anyone to put anything in my mailbox other than mail and that I should report it.
A few days later the same thing happened but the guy said he was looking for my partner, (who lost his job and is trying to get money up to file a bankruptcy). THIS man said he was a process server and my partner asked him to leave our properry. He dropped his paperwork on the ground, came back sometime before the next day and also put another copy in our mailbox., which was again not in an envelope. His paperwork was differnet and had an old fashioned "FILED" stamp, dated 12/29/2005. But it was also a summons on a more currrent debt of his, with another attorney's name. He did not identify himself by name, show any identification and my partner did not identify himself either.
Is any of this legal?
