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John
Country: United States
I am constantly receiving calls on my cell phone and my work phone number from a place called the Crime Prevention Investigation.  They tell me my wife and I owe money on an old payday loan from five months ago.  The gentlemen on the other line always has a indian voice and sounds somewhat computerized.  I am sick of these calls.......they are irritating and interrupt my day on a regular basis.  They threaten me and my family, and although nothing has ever happened, it is still annoying.  How do I stop these calls?

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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.


    They are probably running this scam from overseas, which makes suing them 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?
    Prepaid debit card from Walmart?
    Do they ask for your credit or debit card number?
    Do they ask for your checking account number?
    Other?
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    Auntjuju
    My indian guy told me he was Spanish...I laughed and spoke to him in Spanish.  I asked him to count to 10 in spanish and he said he couldn't.  It was just too funny
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    independentndn
    One guy told me that he was from san diego, Nevada
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    confused
    I just got the same call and when I tried to ask for verfication of amounts and dates he told me no amount was worth embarassemt on my job. That they would send the police to come and arresst me. The individual I spoke to also sounded as if he was from India.

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