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Is this legal, a marketing company hiring people to serve debtors?

I just read a post in Spain's loqou web site, someone claims that a marketing company can not serve anyone to go to court in order to settle a petty debt becuase the court fees alone are more and these petty debts can be recovered after one finds a job, most are protected by the jurisdictions of their own EU country anyway. The person says that a Spanish marketing firm uses a loop hole where they locate a person (through adverts like personals, language exchange etc) then find a flat mate of theirs, serve them using the flat mate as a agent with out been aware. When the flat mate agrees to accept the documents, he can refuse then straight away once aware that he is been used as the middle person to bring the person with the debt to a small claims court, the person who is been served is usually someone visiting spain, student or passing through, however the marketing company who hires people to seek men online pretending to be single woman, students etc can not themselves serve or they have to appear in court and the Spanish Judge will throw the case out and make the individual (not the company who hires them) pay the court fees, this is becuase they are not legally private investigators or directly working under one or a registered lawyer. So the post on loqou claims that a marketing company basically offers services to seek out small petty debts like phone bills using min wage paid students dragging both the subject in debt and a 3rd party into a slow spanish cost with a amount less then the price to return to the UK or a bit more knowing the individual once in court has to re appear with the full payment in 3 to 6 months also, this is usually longer then anyone plans to visit, so basically the marketing company is making a living of off trapping petty debts and charging them their time for it. Would this be a scam?

Public Comments

1. It is legal for a creditor to use certain forms of deception to properly serve a debtor. How much deception varie by country. Presumably this system works in Spain.
2. Any form of deception could not only be dismissed from court but also the case it self which then the plaintiff has to sue the agents who did this for the losses. There is no such thing as deception and fowl play in courts, i remember once when American Express used to have people claim death threats to those in dept, this was a form of intimidation, all dismissed and AE lost millions from this. The losses are great if they hire a crooked insurance company to collect so it sin their best interest to play by the rules. I would advise anyone working at this telemarketing company who acts on peoples privacy to refrain and leave the company ASAP, this is not even acceptable in Romana
3. young kids are easily fools when it comes to believing they are doing a good cause, its illegal and a judge should throw out every case, if your suckered to court find others and suggest a class action against the agency or agencies for costing everyone time and money for not been properly served., you will have to try to make your payments but the chances of the cases been dismissed are very high
4. It is legal if you sign the paper, NEVER ANSWER THE DOOR, CHANGE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS and put every letter sent to you in the post box returned, if your mail man starts to get aggressive then he is harassing you, unless your been served for serious offenses or proceedings like to be evicted NEVER SIGN ANYTHING, If you where in serious trouble the cops would of already been the only ones looking for you, the rest are illusion, ignore them.