ASA's payment enforcement is smoke and mirrors. ASA better familiarize themselves with debt collection processes (link at the end). If you take someone on your team with a promise of payment, then they are a debtor to the team. The team is not actually allowed to tell anyone about that debt, especially ASA. Also, ASA is not allowed to let anyone else, ie the next team, know about that debt.
One of these days ASA will run into someone knowledgeable about debt law and they will loose a lot of money. Debtors are entitled to $1,000 dollars if any of the contact provisions of fair credit act are violated, and they do not have to show any damages to collect.
PGF is smart not getting into this quagmire.
Here are some relevant no-no's I have seen ASA cross when handling this issue in the past.
", a collector may contact other people – but only to find out your address, your home phone number, and where you work. "
"False statement. Debt collectors may not lie when they are trying to collect a debt. For example, they may not:
- falsely claim that they are attorneys or government representatives.
- falsely claim that you have committed a crime.
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"Debt collectors are also prohibited from saying that: - you will be arrested if you don't pay your debt; - legal action will be taken against you, if doing so would be illegal or if they don't intend to take the action."
I am not an attorney. But you often have a situation where the amount owed is in dispute, and the contracts are flimsy. There is not much ASA can do.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre18.shtm