N.Y. Penal Law § 190.50: Unlawful collection practices

§ 190.50 Unlawful collection practices.

A person is guilty of unlawful collection practices when, with intent

to enforce a claim or judgment for money or property, he knowingly

sends, mails or delivers to another person a notice, document or other

instrument which has no judicial or official sanction and which in its

format or appearance, simulates a summons, complaint, court order or

process, or an insignia, seal or printed form of a federal, state or

local government or an instrumentality thereof, or is otherwise

calculated to induce a belief that such notice, document or instrument

has a judicial or official sanction.

Unlawful collection practices is a class B misdemeanor.