owed money for a loan
Complaint
Jacqueline Johnson
Country: United States
I am being sued by the federal government for a loan that was supposedly taken out some time ago. I recdeived no prior information about this and want to know how is this possible without my permission. This man has not really given me much information to deal with the situation. The person calling has a very heavy accent Indian I believe. The phone number is( 718) 732-0135
Comments
There are many scammers playing fake "payday loan debt collector" to try to con and extort people by phone. Many are calling from India and have thick Indian accents, but there are similar scams run from the U.S.
Debt collectors are required to comply with FDCPA, which requires that they obtain and send you proof of any alleged debt if you request it. Never pay any debt collector who cannot prove you owe a debt. They are usually criminals running scams.
File complaints with FTC, and your state Attorney General.
If they make threats, also file complaints with your local poilce and the FBI.
They are just trying to scare you. Call their bluff. Tell them they are being recorded, and the call is being traced by the FBI. They will hang up very quickly.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/acc.shtm
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For Release: 02/21/2012
Court Halts Alleged Fake Debt Collector Calls from India, Grants FTC Request to Stop Defendants Who Often Posed as Law Enforcement
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation that the FTC alleges collected phantom payday loan “debts” that consumers did not owe. Consumers received millions of collection calls from India, and that since January 2010 the operation took in more than $5 million from victims, according to the FTC.
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If you are being harassed by this type of scam, contact FTC.
We are prosecuting you and generating a non bailable arrest warrant under your name for a fraudulence done by you ,you can reach(2/2)us on 347-960-6497 or get ready to face the consequences under act 17A of USA penal court
Washington DC crime bureau
We are having every information that you have done a fraud with a companyYou will get all the paper works tomorrow morning inside the court We are sending down some officers to the place of your employment tomorrow morning make sure your presence there....
I told them I have reported them to the Attorney General and that I would see them in court. I asked for the court name so I could check the docket and all I got was "crickets"!!!!!
I got something very similar the day before through email and I reported them.
It is a shame when people fall for this and actually give money. Before you do anything...get as much info as you can on them by using Google. It is amazing what you will find just like I found this webpage. One good indicator of a scam is the very poor spelling/grammar or the statements making no sense.
(1/2)This is to inform you that Legal actions under section 9,of chapter 19c will be imposed on you by 11:00am tomorrow & we have to take you down into custody (2/2)through police ,call us right back failing which we won't be responsible ,contact us on (202)-738-4361 immediately
Criminal/taxation Bureau
I was on the phone with the gentleman for about 25 minutes he said i owed a loan totally around 750$ from back in 2013 he proceeded to read off my current information which is very different from my 2013 information ie place of employment, address and such. He then told me if I said 500$ there would be no action taken, I told him I would call back in an hour. Once I called back I told him I was going to be recording the conversation he quickly got aggressive said that he would have the police contact me and proceeded to threaten me saying "you will see what we will do" and hung up on me immediately
I am certain this was a scam but it is very intimidating to receive texts and calls like this. Anyone have any advice on what I should do with this?