Harassing phone calls
Complaint
Jim Richmond
Country: United States
Recieved a call from a man named John Nelson, with very thick accent. He put his Supervisor, Anthony Johnson, on the phone, upon my repeated request, demanding $956 to be paid immediately to a business called Cash Advance America for an alleged loan he claimed my wife failed to pay over a year ago. Never had a loan from them, never heard of them. He said if she didn't pay today that another company called American Law Division had a "senior" attorney ready to file suit against her tomorrow in "Oklahoma Court" for over $4000 after attorney's fee's. He had the last four digits of her social security number. He never could furnish our address. He claimed her employer was also being "investigated." He also called my wife at her work place earlier in the day. He told her she had failed to take care of her business and that she would "end up behind the bars." She continued to ask for a Supervisor and was told by Anthony that he was the Supervisor. She asked for his Supervisor because, while he claimed to be American and had an American name, his accent was so thick she could not understand a word he was saying. He then started talking really quickly and shouting. She just kept shouting back for him to put someone who could speak English on the line and he hung up. He also told her his company had sent 18 emails that had gone ignored. ROFL! Of course, those types of emails always get deleted! Not a letter or correspondence one. Just the emails... which, upon sifting through my past email logs were not found. My wife was very upset and I told her it was a scam and I'd be able to find something on the internet to prove it. Of course, I have found that proof here. You'll also note, they never put a phone number on their web sites. I'll have to see if they keep calling before I try to take any legal action, which I doubt would do any good since they are foreigners. I suppose I'll play along and make them mad everytime they call... who know's it might be fun!
Comments
They make it all up, and take any details you give them and feed it back to you.
They are just a bunch of liars and swindlers.
It's a con.
You might contact Vitelity LLC,or other VoIP telecoms, and see if they are a "customer".
Maybe you can get them cut off.
www.vitelity.com
They often get victim id info from fake "payday loan application" websites, or buy it from loan lead generation sites. They then not only know that their intended victims probably have had other payday loans, but they often have id information like SSN and DOB, bank account numbers, and even employers, that can be woven into their cons, as they pretend to be "collecting on a payday loan".
They are looking for YOU to fill in the details and convince yourself you might owe some payday loan to them.
Many of these swindlers have thick accents and may be calling from India or Pakistan, but others are US based.
You can NEVER believe any stranger who calls you on the phone, especially when they make threats.
Real debt collectors will send you notice by mail within 5 days of contact, as required by FDCPA, notifying you of the alleged debt and providing their name and address so you can send them a dispute letter and request proof, also required by FDCPA.
The fakes just make threats and blow smoke.
At that time he tried to verify my personal information and he in fact had my address and the last for digit's of my SS# which is a matter of grave concern due to identity theft. Now I have to notify my banks, Transunion, Experion, etc., plus file a Police report.
After returning the call again for verification the message was "The magic-jack number you have called is not available at this time!" What company uses magic-jack....none.
Pure scam from India.