threatening phone calls
Complaint
p trisdale
Country: United States
I received call on my cell phone so full of static I could not understand caller with his heavy accent. Hung up. He called nine more times within three minutes. He left a threatening message on his tenth. He calls from unavailable or 1-028-551-013. The number he left for me to return his call is 858-777-1977.Two hours later he was going to start up again. I called him what he was, told him my detective husband would call him at 5pm. He hung up. His last call to me was at 2:50pm. I called him back at 3:20pm to ask for his address. He didn't know. He only knew he is a law firm in California. When I said I needed his exact location for the police, he put me on hold. It's now 10pm and he still hasn't called me back.
Comments
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.
There were several related debt collectors in the Jacksonville FL area employing similar tactics. The Florida AG shut down several of them, including one, "Ellis Crosby", that was reported to have had an Indian call center. ABC News has done a story on these crooks, and the West Virginia AG had a press release warning of their calls.
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.
Odds are 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.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-858-777-1977
http://www.creditbloggers.com/2009/02/america ... cam-alert-.html
They informed me of my bank information and I asked them for my Case # because I had never recieved a deposit, they got even more rude. They said I committed fraud and there is a law suit against me which they will take to court. They tried to have me give them my full SSN, big Joke
Some people will fall for this. .
714-604-4558
909-327-4870
a law firm with different area codes but the same law firm LOL
Now I a getting another call from a Peter Hoffman with a thick accent and when i dialed the number he called from and told me to call it tells me i dialed incorrect number. How can these people get away with this [***].