This may be a stupid question...

[Anonymous]

...but I couldn't find an answer, so I thought I'd ask.

I read that you shouldn't sign a DV letter to a CA, and I'm wondering why not?                                                                   

[inthematrix]

Because some CAs are unscrupulous and that signature on your letter could mysteriously find itself attached to other documents that you never actually signed.

[John060675]

Supposedly there have been instances when a CA used your signature at the bottom of letters against you.  They would forge your signature on items once they saw what it looked like.

I would not put it past them to do this, even though it is very illegal.

[Anonymous]

Wow.   Should all correspondence to a CA not be signed then?  Is it still considered "valid" without a signature?

[llecs]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Wow.   Should all correspondence to a CA not be signed then?  Is it still considered "valid" without a signature?

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There's no law out there saying you'd have to sign it. I never did on my DVs or PFDs to CAs.

[jasimae]

I typed all my letters and just used whatever the cursive font was as my signature.  I'm a stickler for signing things but I'm not keen on having my signature, or anything else, forged.

[Anonymous]

I never sign my DV letter...except for once.  And in that one time, the debt collector did, in fact, forge my signature on all sorts of documents.

In the end, I ended up retaining a lawyer to after the lawyer in charge of the lawfirm/collection company.

As for the collector, the abovementioned owner practically threw him under the bus.  The collector was an ex-con, and had two prior convictions on forgery.  And too bad for him, as this was "strike three" under California's "Three Strikes Law".