Fake court order/summons?

You'd better be calling the court to see if any actions against you are on the docket. That law firm represents certain state governments in various capacities. What you received sounds like a motion of discovery and yes, those can be sent via regular mail.

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In my state of residence, a summons may be delivered in the following fashion:

1) Personal delivery by an officer of the court or their designee;

2) Professional process server;

3) Certified mail;

4) Nail and mail (copy affixed to the front door of the person's last known address with a copy to follow via snail mail);

5) Snail mail;

6) Publication in a local newspaper (local meaning within 50 miles of the debtor's last known address).

When in doubt, call the clerk of the court in your county and/or city of residence. They can tell you whether any actions are pending against you. DO NOT just throw away documents of that nature. Verify their validity first. If you do not respond to a summons or other motion, a default judgment may be entered against you. In my state, failure to respond to a motion of discovery results in a writ of body attachment, allowing the police to arrest you and put you in jail until you can appear before a judge to explain why you didn't respond.

Do what you have to do to protect yourself. A telephone call to the court costs a few minutes of your time. Failure to respond to legitimately issued documents can cost you a whole lot more.

Didn't you already ask this under the user name "ironplay56"?

Anyway, here's how I answered that:

If you get a summons in regular snail mail, throw it away if you so choose. Either way, ignore it.

It's a tactic they may be using to get you to contact them. You contacting them establishes your identity, and may make you then liable for the debt you allegedly owe.

So in this case, just ignore the letter. Besides, a summons not from a court has just as much legal weight as the junk mail that came with it.

In the meantime, you have options at your disposal. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act spells out what debt collectors can and cannot do. From what you wrote, that debt collector violated this federal law in many ways. They cannot misrepresent legal forms by telling you they are official when they aren't, and they cannot send you forms that look like they are from a court when they aren't. Also, they are required to send you a validation notice within five days of first contact which should include what you allegedly owe, the original creditor, and your basic rights on how to respond. The debt collector failed to do this.

If you so choose, you can actually file a lawsuit against the debt collector for violation of the FDCPA, which allows you up to $1,000, even if there was no injury (financial or reputation loss). If you decide on this, keep the fake summons and any accompanying letters and the like for evidence. Also, use the link below to find the actual text and print it out to bring it with you to court.

Good luck!

Your "friend" is a dangerous person, and is going to end up in jail. He is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the court system. Does he really think a fake insurance card will stand up in court? Does he really think a judge does not have the authority to send somebody to a phone to verify the document? As far as bribing an agent, forget it. Backdating insurance is an offence that gets a broker/agent licence revoked by state or provincial licencing authorities.