Article 284 Bis Federal Criminal Code

There shall be sanctioned with from one to four years of imprisonment and fine of from fifty thousand to three hundred thousand pesos, anyone who carries out the activity of illegal extrajudicial collection.

If he also uses false documents or seals, the penalty and the economic sanction shall be increased by one half.

If he incurs in usurpation of functions or of profession, the rules of the concurrence of crimes indicated in the Federal Criminal Code shall be applied.

Illegal extrajudicial collection is understood as the use of unlawful violence or intimidation, whether personally or through any means, to require the payment of a debt derived from activities regulated in federal laws, including credits or financing that have been originally granted by persons habitually and professionally dedicated to this activity, independently of the holder of the collection rights at the moment of carrying out the collection. Informing those possible and legally valid consequences of the non-payment or the capacity to initiate legal actions against the debtor, guarantor, joint obligor or any third party related to these shall not be considered as unlawful intimidation when these are legally possible.