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I suspect you're thinking of this This American Life episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/532/transcript https://www.thisamericanli

• vxNsr 9y ago
  Yes thank you! The other NPR show I listen to religiously!
• Redoubts 9y ago
  The money shot: Show me the evidence. In other words, show me where you got this number $3,762.20. The Georgia Legal Services lawyer told Jake that if you're standing before a judge, and you say, OK, I don't recognize this amount that you say I owe and I want to see some documentation, I want to see account statements or whatever, because I have no way to know with certainty that this debt is really mine, the judge will usually turn to the other side and ask for the evidence. And, in all likelihood, they'll have no documentation and they'll drop the case.
  • FireBeyond 9y ago
    And as in the radio episode on NPR and this article, a lot of times, that "proof" is nothing more than a list of names, addresses and amounts in an Excel spreadsheet, and the original statement is long gone, or 5 steps removed. Used to be that judges would take such Excel spreadsheets as gospel, but a lot more often, especially recently, not so much so, often due to the shenanigans we see here.