I received a letter and sample lawsuit from the legal department for Portfolio Recovery. It stated that if I did not contact them by a certain date to pay off the balance or to make acceptable payment arrangements that they would file a lawsuit against me. I did in fact contact them because I knew that I did owe for a Sears credit card some years ago. I am now learning that I should have asked for a debt validation letter after the fact, but I agreed to make payment arrangements which were accepted.