This is the very best advise when dealing with debt collectors.
There are several unscrupulous debt collectors/scammers that use public information to try and frighten people into paying off non-existent debt or debt that is way beyond the statute of limitations to be sued over.
But they are very convincing and claim that they will be sending a court summons (that never arrives)
My elderly neighbor got taken for several hundreds of dollars by one of these Scumbags until I found out what was happening.
And just as the other commenter had said, the debt collector never sent proof of the debt.
Just more threats.
This is the modus operandi of the German state television.
Ostensibly they are independent of the government, but they get residence information from the government even if the citizen slave has denied giving out such information.
Then, even if you do not have a Volksempfaenger (TV), they send bills. If you don't pay, they pose (independent as they are) as a government agency and send a fake title, which normally can only be obtained in court.
1. Using nazi/opressionist slang doesn't help your point.
2. It's not just state television, but state television, radio and by now also their associated internet platforms. They also fund public offerings on Youtube etc..
3. Since they also fund things on the internet (though I think that still a small percentage of their total budget), it makes sense that everyone with an internet capable device pays. Shortly after that switch in legislation they also went from trying to detect if someone has one of those devices to just having every household pay, so of course they send bills.
There are a lot of valid points to be criticized about how the former GEZ is run (e.g. paying a shitload for sport event broadcast licenses to corrupt organizations), but yours are not it.
I don't know how things work in Germany specifically, but when I lived in England I was rather peeved by their TV license thing. The very first communications were full of threats and strong language, and pretty much demanded that I either need a TV license or declare that I don't have a TV (which I didn't). I didn't reply out of principle, as I don't think it should be my burden to prove that I don't use a service and I resented the implied accusations (British are really not as polite as the stereotype says – quite the opposite I found). After a few more threatening letters they said they would "open an investigation" shrug. I left the country before anything came of that.
(Not an approval of the other commenter's choice of language or viewpoints, by the way, and not sure what it is with the pile-on of new accounts here).
1. If you are triggered by humeruous exaggerations, don't read European literature.
2. They are forcing themselves upon the Internet, and I can assure you I don't read them.
3. Sending bills for something that a person does not want and enforcing that is protection money.
4. You are defending mafia tactics.
Literally people who earn something above social security level are squeezed dry by the ARD ZDF parasites with their bad program and high salaries stolen from the population.
A court found that the ARD/ZDF are a commercial enterprise, so their incasso tactics are not lawful.
Bringing up "Nazi slang", which was clearly using a term in a negative way (which is quite customary in Germany if you want to point out an exaggerated parallel) is dishonest.
The term was used in an anti-Nazi manner, but I suspect you are aware of that and just tried to discredit the post.
There are several unscrupulous debt collectors/scammers that use public information to try and frighten people into paying off non-existent debt or debt that is way beyond the statute of limitations to be sued over.
But they are very convincing and claim that they will be sending a court summons (that never arrives)
My elderly neighbor got taken for several hundreds of dollars by one of these Scumbags until I found out what was happening.
And just as the other commenter had said, the debt collector never sent proof of the debt. Just more threats.