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Originally Posted by newB
I did a short stint in mortgage banking after college and saw this kind of thing a bit. I'm guessing you have a fairly common name, one where there might be a couple people with the same name in the same town? When they don't know which of the Mike Jones or whatever is the actual debtor, they'll put a lien on all of them. It's lazy as it puts the burden on innocent people to prove that it isn't them, but I guess that it is effective enough that the practice persists.
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My name is Thomas Powers, not very common. The government in North Carolina is just fucked up. The first time they froze my account I sent them paperwork and it was all settled in under a week showing I moved out of the state and owed no taxes there. The 2 times they froze it after that it was already in their system, with documentation, that I had left the state. And they froze it years later out of the blue with no notice.