rhondak

Lists by action and law that bars that action...$1000 a violation.

http://www.creditinfocenter.com/eBooks/PoorMansClassActionLawsuit.shtml

Reply from Business Week about story idea on illegal creditor practices -- they've written it, they're following it AND they've won awards about their coverage:

BW.com Editor-in-Chief John A. Byrne
September 3, 2008 10:10 AM
RhondaK, you probably missed our cover story on this topic. But I'm happy to say that BusinessWeek has taken a lead in reporting on this subject. Our cover story, Prisoners of Debt, ran last November. It has won several journalism awards and has drawn about 175 comments from our readers.

I agree with you: This is a horror story. Two of our investigative writers, Robert Berner and Brian Grow, called the practice "a financial version of Night of the Living Dead." They noted that debts forgiven by bankruptcy courts are "springing back to life to haunt consumers. Fueling these miniature horror stories is an unlikely market in which seemingly extinguished debts are avidly bought and sold."

You can see the story here: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2007/db20071031_039775.htm