Racist voicemails force debt collector to pay $1.5 million
Texas debt collector pays $1.5 million in damages after leaving harassing and racist voicemails in an attempt to collect payment...
DALLAS — The harassing and threatening voicemail messages left on Allen Jones’ mobile phone are nothing short of vulgar.
“This shouldn’t be tolerated,” he said. “Nobody should have to experience what I had to experience.”
Debt collectors from Advanced Call Center Technologies, LLC left eight messages for Jones in August 2007 trying to collect what it said he owed on a credit card.
Most messages were laced with profanity and spewed racial slurs:
“This is your mother******* wake-up call you little lazy a** b****,” a collector said on one. “Get your mother******* n****r ass up and go pick some mother******* cotton fields.”
Jones is African-American.
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