The John Oliver, comedian and presenter of the show Last Week Tonight in ZOOLANDER, Once he wrote television history by making the largest in value ever donation from broadcast. Yet the most important element of this movement was that no deal gifts, but gave debts. After pressing the big red button that existed in the Studio, 9000 Americans now stopped owe almost 15 million. USD.

, Oliver began to explain that US households owe a total of $ 12 trillion and that most of overdue and overdue bills sold to collection agencies after chasing every way debtors. 'The debt market is a dirty business and urgently needs greater oversight,' he said. 'As things are, any idiot can get into this job. And I can prove how alarmingly easy it is.” he added and presented me with some pretty disturbing research on debt collection companies and how this system works.

By Oliver bought hefty debt by a simple start internet company for $ 50 and then made entry in Mississippi. He named his company Central Asset Recovery Professional, Inc and said with that founded the company, He received an offer to buy medical debts worth 15 million. dollars paying something less than 60.000 USD.

In some cases, a company that will buy debt like this, explained, systematically harassing and unacceptable practices or even debtors threats to win a part of the collection of the amount. In the case of Oliver, the debt belonged to 9.000 people. At the end of the show, He stood beside a large red button, the press and festive style announced that debts and debtors ' list passed to an NGO and that are deleted without affecting their tax and ensuring that nobody else could chase them for money.

2004, The Oprah Winfrey gave a car to each audience member of, a donation valued at 8.000.000 USD. By purchasing and deleting this debt, Oliver declared that he had now broken the record and closed jokingly with a “Fuck You Oprah!”.

Source: Lifo.gr