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West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has sued a Florida collection agency to force the agency to stop collecting debts in the state based on cancelled magazine subscriptions.

Vero Beach, Fla.-based Check Game Solutions, Inc. and its president Catherine Kay are the target of Attorney General Darrell McGraw’s lawsuit, which alleges a magazine subscription company used aggressive tactics to sell subscriptions and then, when the residents later tried to cancel their checks, sent their information onto Check Game Solutions.

The collection agency was hired to send collection letters accusing customers of writing bad checks. In one case, the lawsuit says, Check Game threatened to turn the debt over to the “Worthless Check Division” of the “State Attorney’s Office,” a fictitious department.

Under West Virginia law, consumers have the right to cancel their magazine subscriptions at any time.

McGraw also says his office tried to resolve the situation amicably but the agency “refused to settle the matter.”

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