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Australian Mobile Phone Provider Sent 1000s of Fake Debt Collection Letters
Bismillah writes "Excite Mobile in South Australia also set up a fake debt collection agency, and a fictional complaints body for late-paying customers. The company sent fake debt collection letters to 1074 customers, even going so far as threatening to confiscate the toys of their customers' kids if they didn't pay up. From the article: 'South Australian mobile phone provider Excite Mobile has been found guilty of false, misleading and unconscionable conduct by the Federal Court after the ACCC took action against the company for faking a debt collection agency, creating a fictional complaints body, and misrepresenting scope of mobile coverage.'"
A corporation isn't the only entity that did this. Specific persons employed or contracted by the corporation did.
Prison time.
Yeah, this isn't a problem in America. In other countries, businesses will jockey around the law and do things like this. In America, they change the law first to make it legal, or at least make them legally not culpable (i.e. move the burden of verifying legitimacy on the recipient of debt collection notices).
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Why does this have to get changed to be about America?
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'