Harrassing Calls
Complaint
Jodi Conklin
Country: United States
I have received several calls from this company, the new number is 424-258-1984, claiming that I owe money for a pay day loan, which I did not receive. They call my work and are very harrassing to the ladies in the office (I work in the field). I have told them several times to stop calling me, as I know these are fraudulant calls. How do I make them stop? Am I able to sue them?
Comments
https://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/IDDUf49WgwDukQjMvFILqA
That number starts showing complaints starting in July. Normal debt collectors usually have years of complaint trail.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-424-258-1984
There are numerous similar complaints under this name as well as others, of thick accented callers attempting to extort Americans into paying phony payday loans. Although one federal lawsuit shows up against this company, it is not clear where they are located, as all addresses that BBB has on them are phony.
This pattern of phony "debt collector" scammers often change phone number, use made up names, and may be calling from India or Pakistan.
You can and should file a complaint with your local police, state Attorney General, and the FBI, and you could try to sue them, although if they are overseas, it is unlikely any action will be practical.
You do need to know that they are just criminals, with only threats by phone to con people, that any claimed debts are entirely phony regardless of what they say. There is nothing you did to cause them to target you, and they might have just as easily have targetted anyone at your company. They will continue to harass all of you until they give up.
They are often reported to have access to identity, relative, and employer information, including SSN, DOB, and past addresses. Some reports indicate that they may have gotten access to old payday loan information from a payday lender that went bust and had an Indian call center, and probably have access to both credit report and skip-trace data, which indicates that either now or in the past they fooled the credit reporting agencies into thinking they were legitimate debt collectors.
On this site, this complaint pattern has now risen to levels comparable with identifiable real debt collectors.
This is a law enforcement issue, not a "debt collection" issue. Since your employer and other eomployees are being harassed, your employer should contact the police and FBI and follow their advice. Although they have been known to spoof caller id, that number is currently live, and some have reported that having the police call them back has been effective at getting the calls to stop.
Otherwise, your employer must train his employees on how to handle this, just like other safety or hazard issues must be addressed. Make it clear to the criminals it is a waste of time calling so they move on. That may mean that with any call, whoever answers knows to inform them that they have been reported to the FBI, the call is being monitored and recorded as evidence, and then hang up. Everyone should known what is going on, that no threats can be carried out, that they have been reported to law enforcement, and that it is ok to just cut them off or transfer them to "muzak hell". It is your phone not theirs. That will destroy their ability to intimidate, which is what they are trying to use to extort.