Complaint

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Marcia
Country: United States
For the past few months I have been receiving threatening calls from this number 347709611 stating they have a lawsuit against my social security number. The person on the phone has a thick accent of Asian decent. They call repeatedly always say their name is John Christian, Mark Peterson, or Christopher Parker.

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    tj
    They are a bunch of criminals calling from overseas, probably India, probably via VoIP because it's cheap, and trying to scam and extort money out of Americans for phony "payday loans".  

    They may even have information like old account numbers, SSN, DOB, relatives or employers, possibly from pulling credit reports or through skip-trace searches, or sometimes phony on-line payday loan sites, but the alleged debts are entirely phony, or if real, not owed to these crooks.

    They are liars.

    File a complaint with the FBI, and if they keep calling, record them and tell them the call is being recorded as evidence.  If they have any brains, they will move on when they know you won't be conned.

    Warning from the Illinois Attorney General:
    http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/pressroom/2010_08/20100825.html

    Warn your friends and co-workers about this scam, so that they don't get conned.

    Since they are probably running this scam from overseas, suing them is probably impractical.

    They are, however, vulnerable at two points:
    1)  Their phone provider.  They may be using VoIP, but most likely use the same carrier even though they may change phone numbers frequently.
    2)  Their method of getting the money transferred.

    If the scam got that far, how did they say payment should be sent?
    Western Union?
    MoneyGram?
    Other?

    If they keep calling, you might try fishing for that information.  

    If they are demanding payment by Western Union or MoneyGram, contact FTC to report that, and demand that these money transfer agents post warnings against this particular scam to protect others.  MoneyGram is subject to a consent agreement to warn consumers against fraud, due to involvement by its agents in earlier fraudulent schemes.
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    KA
    I got a very disturbing call on  my cell phone Sunday morning June 3rd at 5:41am which woke my husband and I up.  It was an Arab man. He said that he was coming to kill me.  He called me by my first name twice,said he was coming to "Kill" me twice and he was only off a little on our street #, but he didn't say the name of the street.  I filed a police report, reported to the local News as anonyomous, but of course, nothing is done or mentioned until something happens to someone.  I took this as a "Death threat," since he mentioned twice that he was coming to "Kill" me, and he called me by my first name twice.  

    I believe that since our troops are home that they should be undercover and patrolling the streets of our own, but it sure does seem like we take care of the "other countries," but not our own.  I am still very "shaken up."  This happened after I gave $30.00 to the Romney campaign.  I've never been political, and I don't have money, so I hope and pray that I am not "killed" over a once in a lifetime $30.00 donation.

    KA
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    KA
    To the above: my cell carrier has a compliance dept and traced the phone number to the "Ivory Coast," so if I get anymore calls, they will work with the police.

    KA
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    KA
    How do these overseas criminals get our names, and addresses? And, can we prevent them from getting the info?

    Thanks.

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