The FTC has undertaken investigations and published reports in 2007, 2009,2010, and 2013 raising concerns about on . In 2007 the Commission brought actions against the largest debt buying companies for practices that ethical industry members also deplored. In her 2006 "The Washington Post" article, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Liz Pulliam Weston described some of the worst practices debt buyer industry attorneys had used. This included "badgering" consumers for debts already released through bankruptcy", lawsuits or threats of lawsuits over debts released because "the statute of limitations had expired", put pressure on consumers by claiming their 'old debt' is a 'new one' thereby "illegally 're-aging' debts on credit reports and "extending the seven-year limit." They also make promises to delete "negative mark from the consumer's credit report" if a payment is made without informing the consumer, that making even a token payment revives the "statute of limitations". Credit card companies purchase charged-off debts and add them to the balance of 'bait-and-switch' credit cards that consumers unknowingly purchase because they are low-rate credit cards. Consumers also complained of being verbally abused, harassed, "cursed, berated and called repeatedly despite requests to stop."