$82,000,000 verdict against Debt Recovery Associates, LLC

I hope they can't weasel their way out of it!!
Money is good, if they ever see it, hard labor with Bubba would be better :)

➡️ Why is the name "Debt Recovery Associates" in your title? ⬅️

Because my iPad somehow prohibits me from copying or cutting and pasting certain things from another window.  Not only that, but it is only capable of showing one window at at time, even though you can open multiple tabs.  Often, if you CAN copy something, if you switch back and forth between windows, what you type in the 800notes window sometimes erases automatically for reasons completely unknown to me.  And if you try to look something up to copy, it often covers up the whole screen with your "favorites" and other frequently visited sites, so you can't even see something to manually copy it with paper and pencil.

I used to like my iPad and iPhone, but there are now many times that I would prefer to ditch Apple products altogether.  Especially since each new upgrade seems to remove features I use and have already paid for.

Many scam collectors are related. They are known to pass off a zombie debt, rewrite the loan in an affiliated sister firm. When that runs aground they sell their databases down the line to their criminal buddies who run the same type of business. And the cycle continues..

But the victim remains the same. How smart is that? Just because you (scam collector with recycled database) are rehashing the same fake debt over and over again is that increasing your chances for success in collecting? The victim will not suddenly win the lotto, get an amazing job, feel generous or go brain dead! You blew it the first time you tried to collect and the person said no you are a scam. Or I don't have any money. Or I won't pay. By pestering them with different names for the same fake debt will not help. You are wasting time. But then...... if you only had a brain!

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I think Admin could be persuaded to correct the title to accurately reflect the defendant company's best known name. I thought maybe PRA decided to "rebrand", even though it's become a stock market darling.

That's the most obstructionist behavior from a slate computer I've yet heard about. My experience of Apple products, going back to the IIc, forms a pattern of frustration with so-precious software and hardware design elements which try to outguess how I'm going to use them, making me feel like I'm driving with boxing gloves.

- Just because you (scam collector with recycled database) are rehashing the same fake debt over and over again is that increasing your chances for success in collecting? -
If you're implying Rusty is a DC you are extremely mistaken. You also completely missed the point, while the rest of us did not. You neglected to read the article linked on the original post that started this thread and what Rusty posted. Most of these companies don't rehash the same fake debt, they create new ones. Most will jump start the dead debt by purposely creating a new debt with the original information provided and hand it off to a sister collection company in their fold. These scambags are never singular, they are made up of numerous company names in their fold and there's a reason for that. If the debt was true at one point, but was since dead by way of Statute of Limitations, Bankruptcy or Paid in Full in the past, the scam collector attempts a restart and covers it under another sister collector in their fold while the creditor is shown as another collector.
Rusty was speaking of the silent hit the consumer takes. Many of the scam collectors will attempt to place the debt on the consumer's credit reports. If they are not caught by a certain time, the collector bypasses the Statute or latches onto the past Bankruptcy again and again to continuously claim insurance they have for their financing ("writing it off" sound familiar?) or jump starts a debt since paid off to snake more money out of the consumer victim.
The individual who filed a counter-suit did so because the debt WAS NOT HERS.. And how did that happen?
Before you go off on a rant, know your facts and why these scambag, razor's edge strolling, collectors continue to harass someone over a debt that they already knew wasn't the consumer they were attempting to swindle. It's all about the money without a strong disregard for whether it is real or for the laws. This case proved how far they will go.

But ... but ... I have to sit on my hands.

I got a little change in my pocket goin' jing a ling a ling
Want to call you on the telephone, give you a ring.
But each time I talk I get the same old thing
Always no huggy no kissy 'til I get a wedding ring.
Honey my babe don't put my love on the shelf
She said don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself.

Regarding your problems with cut-copy-paste, it's not just the OS on the tablets/smart phones.
Many websites have been redesigned to be more readable on those devices and the code of the webpages actively interferes with the copy-paste activities. I see it often with Linux Mint and am highly aggravated by this.

And also include people whose identities have been stolen and debts run up in their name.

Don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but prior to the judgment being handed down, we were receiving two-three calls per day from PRA. They have completely stopped.

Anyone else?

show them no mercy because they sure don't show anybody else any  keep up the good work.

Maybe just a coincidence.

I had a call from them Friday and on Tuesday prior to that.  I expect the will try to call again today, since they seem to call about every third day.  Not that it bothers me, they tend to call when I am at work and my PTF program simply lets them talk to my "FAX machine" for thirty seconds or so.

Didn't have the documents AND had the wrong person.

The 82 LARGE is somewhat appropriate, but a severe beating/flogging would go a long ways to insure it NEVER happens again, anywhere!