by Structured Settlement Watchdog
What is Court Scraping?
“Mining for Gold” by Structured Settlement Factoring Prospectors, known as Court Scrapers
Court scraping is like hunting for treasure, except the treasure for structured settlement factoring companies themselves, or through surrogates, is people’s personal info hidden in court-approved settlements or structured settlement transfers.
The goal? To find annuitants and bombard them with so much direct mail, phone calls, and other approaches that it feels less like a sales pitch and more like an endurance test. Some might even call it harassment, but hey, who doesn’t love relentless attention?
Many court documents can be found online these days, sometimes for free, other times for a small charge. If not available on line, settlement purchasers dispatch representatives directly, or through the company they outsource to, to pay a visit to the courthouse and obtain the records.
The Sumter County Court 2014 Admission
The Sumter County Florida court, in Bushnell Florida,made an admission in 2014 of the excessive volume of requests it has received.
Read Sumter County Florida Structured Settlements “Hurry Hurry Step Right Up” Structured Settlements 4Real Blog March 3, 2014
Related Reading on Court Scraping of Personal identifiable Information Structured Settlement Recipients
- Read Court Scrapers of Structured Settlement Annuitants for Cash Now Pushers September 5, 2014
- Sagamon County Illinois Structured Settlement Scrape-ity Doo Dah! Structured Settlements 4Real Blog January 29, 2014
- Harassment Investigation Part 1: Scraping tactics by Bentzen Financial November 18, 2014