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Melinda
Country: United States
they continue to call my family and friends telling them thay I have Identity theft charges pending against me for a payday loan and that I will have to pay $4,000.00 if this goes to court. When I call to discuss this with them and tell them that I'm getting the FBI involved they hang up on me.  This is outrageous.  What scammers

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    tj
    They are just a bunch of crooks running a phony "debt collection" scam, collecting on fake "payday loans".  They use threats of "arrest", or being "sued", combined with harassment of relatives or coworkers, as part of their extortion scheme.

    You don't owe them ANYTHING.  All their alleged "debt" claims are fake.  They can't do anything to you but harass you on the phone.

    Even if they appeared to have information on some debt you recognize, you wouldn't owe it to them.  There are reports indicating that they are obtaining U.S. consumer information from credit reports, skip-trace services, and phony on-line "payday loan" sites, which would allow them to fake claims that you "owe" them some "debt", using information from your own credit report.

    File a fraud complaint with the FBI, although since most of these scams are calling from overseas, often India, it's not likely anything will happen to them.

    If they call back, just tell them you have reported their scam to the FBI, and you are recording their call for use as evidence.  Once they realize you can't be conned, they will move on to some other sucker.

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