Keeps calling
Complaint
April
Country: United States
This unknown number keeps calling and finally left a voicemail saying they were with the law firm ACS saying that there was a law suit against me and the were giving me a courtesy call and that I needed to return their phone call at 3474414129. They said that they have all my information and will contact family, friends, or co-workers in regards to this.
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Reported to be scammers based in India attempting to con people using threats. They are running a phony "payday loan debt collection" extortion racket.
Some reports indicate they may have obtained access to old payday loan information, which would give them identity and bank account information, but many consumers claim any past payday loans were already paid off, and others claim they never had any such loan. Most consumer complaints indicate the allegations of any owed debt are bogus.
They may have access to credit reports or skip trace services, which would give them SSN, DOB, past addresses, employer names and addresses, and old accounts usable to fake a claim in a scam. They might also be obtaining information from phony on-line payday loan sites.
Skip trace information would give them access to employer and relative addresses or phone numbers, which they could use in their harassing attempts to panic their targets. Their threat to contact family, friends, or coworkers, after they have already contacted you, is a direct violation of FDCPA and similar state laws, but they could care less since they are just criminals calling from overseas.
They commonly make threats, claim to be attorneys, claim to be suing, claim they will arrest you, claim you will be prosecuted, etc. They also commonly use names chosen to sound very "American", even though they have thick Indian accents that many report they can hardly understand.
They are not "attorneys", not a "law firm", not in "California", not "American Credit Services", they do not "sue", "arrest", "have a warrant", etc. They are overseas crooks, using cheap internet phone service and illegally obtained consumer identity information to try to con Americans. They violate laws all the time but could care less since they figure they are half-way around the world.