Legal analysis: It is definitely illegal for creditors to maliciously collect loans. Creditors can only recover debts when debtors can't pay their debts on time, but they can't recover debts by violence.

Legal basis: Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 671 Where the lender fails to provide the loan on the agreed date and amount, thus causing losses to the borrower, it shall compensate for the losses.

If the borrower fails to collect the loan according to the agreed date and amount, it shall pay interest according to the agreed date and amount.

Article 675 The borrower shall repay the loan within the agreed time limit. If the term of the loan is not agreed or clearly agreed, and cannot be determined according to the provisions of Article 510 of this Law, the borrower may return it at any time; The lender may urge the borrower to return it within a reasonable period of time.