There has been an ongoing suspicion of a certain collection agency. Recently the American Corrective Counseling Services (ACCS) has come under fire for falsely posing as a government agency, and targetting individuals who have written bounced checks. The ACCS actually misrepresented themselves as being the district attorneys office in their notifications to “wrongdoers”.
a federal appeals court ruled that ACCS could be sued over alleged violations of debt-collection regulations. The company had argued that it should be shielded from such lawsuits because it enjoyed the same “sovereign immunity” as a government entity.
The letter would come in the mail, telling people that they owed a certain sum of money, and offering them to join a restitution process or pay the sometimes outrageous fees. Last year, the ACCS brought in over $250,000 fraudulent dollars.
