Unethical Life Pro Tips

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An Unethical Life Pro Tip (or ULPT) is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others and/or with questionable legality. Share your best tips you've picked up throughout your life, and learn from others!

ULPT Rules:

Tips must be unethical, tips that are ethical will be removed.
Tips must provide some benefit to you.
Post titles must begin with "ULPT" or "ULPT Request", and should be descriptive. The title should explain the gist of the ULPT without needing a description. Post that are walls of text will be deleted at the mods discretion.
No tips about rape, murder, suicide, or any tips that violate Geneva Convention laws.
No tip lists, each individual post should be about a single tip. This includes links to articles that list tips.

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Is a debt collector texting you? Don't block the text number. Reply. (self.unethicallifeprotips)

submitted 1 month ago by Jollyllama to c/unethicallifeprotips

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Debt collectors pay to send you SMS messages, around $.003-$.01 it doesn't sound like alot but trust me it adds up. They pay the same rate for incoming SMS and even more for MMS. So this holiday season, instead of blocking why not sign their numbers up for every spam SMS under the sun?

Happy Holidays!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If I recall, there are instances where this is not good advice as paying anything, even $1, resets time limits and confirms a debt.

I've had a incorrect bill sent to a debt collector simply because the fix took longer than the billing system allowed and sent outstanding balances to collections automatically.

Another friend had a zombie debt, one that had been dismissed, pop up again and paying anything would restart the clock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Then I would say, YMMV. I haven't had much experience with debt collectors, but in my case, I owed.