• @MissJinx
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    61 year ago

    so if you go to prison all your debts are forgiven?

    • @ericbomb
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      111 year ago

      After 7 years in the US all debt falls off. So if he’s in prison for 7 years, yeah it’d all go away.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Well, not exactly. The debt is still there, they just can’t force you to pay it. Exceptions apply, like student loans, and they can probably still claim property in the case of bankruptcy or inheritance.

        Also your credit score is going to tank hard.

        • @ericbomb
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          51 year ago

          After 7 years it falls off your report, so if he’s in jail for 7 years he’ll have an empty credit score at the end.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            Not empty just extremely low. Low is worse then nothing. Good luck getting any credit after this. Then again, if the crypto actually grew, it may not matter. You would need at least half a million in profit to be worth all the effort of this scheme. Still only making about 70k a year at that level. Assuming you did 7 years and didn’t have to pay anything like prison rent. Seems like a bad investment.

            • @A7thStone
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              31 year ago

              Low is not worse than nothing with credit. Low credit means you exist. When you have no credit score everyone starts to question if you even exist. I may have personal experience with that.

      • @MissJinx
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        31 year ago

        So if he goes to jail for only 5 he would still owe the bank? lol

        • @ericbomb
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          51 year ago

          Well it works where if it’s non government debt and you don’t pay for 7 years, it falls off your credit report. Of course if you had a car/home tied to it they would have taken it at that point.

          But honestly at 5 years the collector will have mostly given it up and sold it to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar who call from time to time when they have nothing else to do.