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welcome back. imagine answering your phone and hearing this. i saw what you mean, you re writing bad checks. you re stealing tools. you re a low life piece of [beep]. if i don t hear from you, i will have the sheriff s department at your doorstep. great. those are not pranks. they re debt collectors. and more collection agencies are using these extremely aggressive tactics. but are they legal? fred williams is the author of fight back against unfair debt collection practices he wrote the book after going undercover at a collection agency for three months and joins us from the d.c. bureau. fred, good morning to you. good morning. ok, so you went undercover at one of those call centers where people make calls like that. what were you told to do as a debt collector? well, management didn t tell me to do anything wrong but my peers, my co-workers showed me all the tricks of how to trick ....
Certificate. that s b. s.! donald trump did say during that exchange was probably born in the united states but it would just it would be very it would be very helpful to him, the president of the united states, if he simply would present a copy and we should point out that during the 2008 presidential campaign, the campaign did produce a copy of the birth certificate. from hawaii. there s so many other issues to talk about, the wars and the economy, i don t think he needs this. why is he doing this? let us know. coming up on the show, harassing calls from debt collectors like this one on the rise. you re writing bad checks, you re stealing tools. you re just a piece of low life piece of [beep]. holy cow. what to do if you get a call like this. we ll tell you how to handle it next. what s the bigst regret in life? men say bad career choices and bad beer. what about women? you ll want to hear this one. i m afraid that s mine. that was a big mistake. ....