Quote Originally Posted by Tlito View Post
I worked as a debt recovery officer many years ago now and in the 80s do Gooders protecting crooks brought in privacy laws. Once upon a time you would simply phone the electricity department with a persons name and birthday and the information was easy to obtain or you would go to the CRAA and do a simple company check...Finding people was easy and once you Threatened to place them on the CRAA baddies list they ran in at 100 miles an hour and paid their accounts. Or you contacted their family and they paid the bill for you...see once you are registered as a defaulter you can never be removed.
Every government since has made it tougher on the good people to catch the bad ones....I wonder why...
It is extremely difficult but you can have "black marks" removed from your CRAA record under certain circumstances, plus the CRAA record clears after a time frame. It's illegal to threaten debtors with a CRAA report.