Real Life MMD: Should I help debt agency find colleague?

Well. sorry folks, I think she should give them any info she has. Her friend has had and spent the money. It is us as honest citizens that end up paying higher costs because of those who do not pay back what they owe.

You don't have to do anything and makes me wonder why you are even spending time thinking about this matter, this isn't your problem, the only person you are helping is a lazy collections agency who can't be bothered to do their job properly which they are being paid handsomely for by the original creditor.

I deal with them as part of my work, when DHL pass my account to them after a week unpaid, and then the agency immediately charge us £40 for not paying without even bothering to question why something is unpaid, when it is always an invoice I never received or they have charged us the wrong rates.

I was also harrassed by a collection agency for Thames Water after I moved home even though I paid the year in advance, Thames Water themselves confirmed my account was paid up to date when I left, it took 6 months to get the agency to stop chasing me and blackening my credit file for what was all an administrative error yet no one could bother sorting it out properly - how inept do you have to be at your job to not do those simple checks before thundering in with calls and fines.

My point is they are terribly lazy and are not interested in investigating any matter properly, my company/myself is innocent yet is getting fined, reputation tarnished and so much hassle to resolve all because they don't look at the facts of a case. This may be the case with the person they are looking for, you have no place getting involved at all.

Should they call again you should get angry with them for bothering you and ask for their details so your company can bill the collection agency for wasting their company time.

No way should you tell them.it isn't your place to do so;)

Don't get invovled. Debt collectors are parasitic, lazy and utterly inept. I once had the huge satisfaction of taking one to court once after he was foolish enough to slander me on his own recorded phone line. It took the judge about 30 seconds to chuck him out and enforce an order on them as I could prove the agency were in the wrong.

Tell them to do their own dirty work.

If it were me I would pass her new extension number onto the debt collectors and tell them to keep calling her instead of you!!!!

I haven't ever been in a situation where I've been chased by a debt collector and hopefully I won't be.....they only chase when given reason to.....pay your debts...no debt collectors!! Simple!!