Even if your not in the credit "biz" you'll get a kick out of this story!!
Texas Man awarded $1.5 million from a collection company!
Advanced Call Center Technologies, a collection company, now finds itself $1.5 million in debt to Allen Jones. A Dallas County court awarded him the hefty$1.5 million judgment after a jury found the agency barraged Jones with harassing and racially charged phone calls.
Advanced call center employees confessed to logging eight expletive-filled calls to Jones, of Lewisville, Texas, in August 2007, many peppered with the "n-word." Jones, 26, saved the vulgar voice mails as evidence.
"This is your motherf------ wake-up call you little lazy a-- b----," a collector said in one early-morning message obtained by Dallas/Fort Worth's WFAA-TV. "Get your motherf------ n----r ass up and go pick some motherf------ cotton fields."
The calls from the Pennsylvania-based collection company came as early as 6:30 a.m. and as late as 11 p.m., seeking to collect a $200 debt from Jones.
He said he told ACT in their first communication that he had already paid the bill.
A jury agreed with Jones, finding that ACT violated debt collection ethical guidelines. Jones was awarded $1.5 million in punitive damages, $143,000 in attorney's fees and $50,000 in mental anguish, one of the largest rewards of its kind.
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Matt
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