Hi, I have a question regarding the protocol for debt collection. Yesterday a sheriff came to my door, looking for someone by a name that I had never heard before. I told the sheriff that no one by that name lived at the residence, and that I had only been renting the house since last October. When I asked what the trouble was about, the sheriff replied that it was a matter of debt collection. The man he was looking for owed some money to a credit card company, and he had come to inform this man to take care of the matter ASAP to avoid legal action.
This struck me as somewhat odd.