For the record, I have no intention of doing this, just wondering why I don't hear about it more often.

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[–] 17 points 3 months ago

After about 7+ years the debt is written off by the agencies and drops off credit reports.

*Is supposed to be written off, falls off your credit report, and they cannot take any legal action to reclaim the debt. This does not stop the bill collecting calls and e-mails and text messages, because the 7 year timer is from the last time you gave them money, so they will sneakily try anything they can to get you to pay them literally anything in order to re-open those doors, including lying to you about settlement discounts and the like. Debt collectors are a special breed of evil.

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