So You're Dead? That Won't Stop the Debt Collector From Trying To RIp Off Your Survivors

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The New York Times just reported on a company that tries to collect money owned by dead people by contacting sruvivors.

That's right: Your Mom dies and you get a call from a nice kindly person working for DCM Services <http://www.dcmservices.com> asking if you "want to settle the balance on a credit card or bank loan, or perhaps make that final utility bill or cellphone payment." See So You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/business/04dead.html?_r=1&hp>

 THe Tiems reprots:  "or some relatives, paying is pragmatic. The law varies from state to state, but generally survivors are not required to pay a dead relative’s bills from their own assets. " So you are not under any legal obligation to pay for a dead person's personal debts.

But DCM Services tries to sweet talk you into paying them for the dead person's bills.  THe Tiems reports: "DCM Services, which began in 1999 as a law firm, recently acquired clients in banking, automobile finance, retailing, telecommunications and health care" but these upstanding firms don't want people to know who tehy are.

Of all the underhanded, scum-sucking, detestable things I have seen American business do in the past six decades, this takes the cake.

Please spread the word: generall you are not under any legal obligation to pay for a dead person's personal debts.