Debt Collection Text Messages Not Protected by Bona Fide Error?

Editors Note: This editorial is authored by John K. Rossman a Shareholder with Moss & Barnett. Mr. Rossman is also a member of the iA Legal Advisory Board.

Starting in late 2020, the national media and consumer advocates published panicked warnings about debt collectors flooding consumers with unwanted text messages, emails and messages on social media in attempting to collect debts after implementation of Regulation F:

One of the articles cited above and published by NPR even opens with a following fallacious scenario that would NEVER occur at any professional debt collection agency in the United States today and is clearly prohibited by Regulation F: 

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