Harassing phone calls

ComplaintsUnsolicited Phone CallsCash Advance America/American Law Division

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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!

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    Jill A.
    I received a called yesterday on my birthday from a Ronnie Cooper demanding that i pay 1800 dollars to them.When i asked for the info of this loan he said i cannot give you this information but he has all of mine including where i work. HE also said he was having someone come to my job. i told him to go to hell. he also said he tired debiting my acct at my bank 6x's yeah whatever i called my bank nothing like that has happened. my bank is aware and they are going after him...ronnie cooper was calling from a number 818-579-7689 or 951-489-0227...ddont answer your phones just report them...they are committing identity theft.
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    Connie
    I got the same call and was told to call Ronnie Cooper that the ss# had 3 criminal charges..this was repeadly told to me but i kept asking WHAT IS THE CRIMINAL CHARGES !! Finally the lady told me to be calm an be quiet and DO NOT interrupt her. In the mean time my Daughter was so worried too, she looked it up on the internet and told me it was a SCAM. I was sooo upset. So my daughter called them back saying she was me and they informed her the phone number she was using was new to them. (So hope they don't start in on her.)Anyway,The one called Ronnie Cooper answered and began to talk to her and would not hush...finally she said:  Sir...Sir..Helloooo Sir...I have been trying to tell you I have my Lawyer on the line too !!  This Ronnie called my Daughter a B---- and also told her, We are going to Get You,We have our ways!!!  Yea, I am VERY PISSED !!!!!!  Lets go after them I was a victem of Idenity Theft 2 yrs ago !!
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    Connie-Again
    I was called from a landline number from Moreno Valley, Ca. The number from Ronnie Cooper is 9514890227. This number I was to call because it was:Ronnie Cooper Law Firm.  The second number they called me from to inform me of Criminal Charges was : 9725406542 .
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    Stephanie from Nevada
    I just received a call from these people this morning.  I received a message from a man with a very thick india accent claiming his name to be Jack Martin.  I called the number back and got a woman, also with a very thick india accent, named Angela Rains who demanded I pay the amount owed of $789.42.  I also received a call from the SAME company from another thick india accent man named Marshall King.  The phone number that was given was 951-489-0227.  The message from Jack Martin said that if I didn't call them back today, that there was nothing he could do and that the situation would fall on me.  So when I called back and got Ms. Angela Rains, she informed me that I was being sued by Cash Advance America and that I had 3 charges brought against me; Fraud, Fraudulent Business Practices, and Failure to Pay an Obligation.  I spoke to Angela Rains this morning; she rattled off my name, physical address, work address, my social security number, my date of birth, my work phone number, my fiance's name, my mother's name; she had everything!  She informed me of the lawsuit against me.  I told her that I could make payments n the amount of $798.42, but she informed me that they do not accept payments as they are not a collection agency.  But she did inform me that they do accept payments in full as a law firm and was willing to drop the amount down to $600.42 if I paid in full by 1:30pm today.  I told her that I could give her my debit card to run the money through once I received a draw from work.  She said that she CANNOT accept anything in connection to my bank or any personal credit cards I have as she already tried to run the funds through my bank account which came back declined.  Now, I have only had this bank account open for 3 or 4 months, and the cash advance was taken out over a year ago?  She told me I needed to go to Wal-Mart and get a Wal-Mart prepaid Money Card; 2 of them actually.  They wanted one for $500.00 and one for $100.42.  She then told me that there was a settlement fee of $35.00 that I needed to add to the $100.42 card.  She told me not to activate them as Wal-Mart charged a $2.00 activation fee per card.  She wanted me to give them the 16 digit card number, the expiration date, and the 3 digit code off the back.  She wanted me to fax all this information to her along with a letter that included my full name, the last four digits of my SSN and my address stating that I was paying this debt off in full for the amount agreed upon and today's date.  She also wanted me to include a copy of my driver's license and my social security card.  She gave me the email address I needed to fax it to which was ddeanjones.acc@gmail.com.  I was a bit skeptical about this call once she told me how she wanted me to pay.  She told me that she would activate the cards on her end.  When she called back this afternoon, I told her that I would rather escalate this to a legal matter and for her to send me out the legal information on Monday with a Sheriff, that I wanted my attorney to look at this information.  

    I called my bank and they do not show any charge attempts for the amount of $748.42 made from this company in entire length of time my account has been opened.  After I had told Ms. Angela Rains that I wanted to escalate this to legal action, she proceeded to tell me, "may God be with you.  May God help you.  God Bless and you are now $18,000.00 in the dog house."  I have since filed a police report with my local police department, who are calling this company as I am typing this, and I will closely monitor my credit report and bank account for any unauthorized activity.  I hope my experience and testimony with company will help other people in the future not be scammed by these people.  My friend, who is a police officer, basically reassured me that this was all an Identity Theft/Fraud ploy to get me to pay this bogus amount of money.  DO NOT FALL PREY INTO THIS SCAM!
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    Lisa S
    I live in NC and I was also just contated by Richard Smith (thick indian accent) and was told that I owed 1095 for a payday loan from advance america cash advance and that they were filling a law suit tomorrow for the total of 5484.87 for check fraud and they wanted my lawyers name and number.  I told him i didnt have a lawyer and asked what this was all about.  He read me so long form stating that I owe money and I need to pay it now.  When I asked when the money was depositied into my accout he did not have that information but he did have my name, ssn# and email address.  He stated that it was legite because he had this info.  I told him to call my friend a lawyer and give him the info but he wanted to know what kind of lawyer he was and what his bar number was.  I did not have that info so he told me to have my lawyer call him.  I did but have not heard from my lawyer yet to see if anything was sent to him.  I called Richard back and asked for his address so that I could send him a debt verification form and he gave me 42 broadway 5th floor new york new york.  He also said he worked for Corperate affairs.  The address he gave me belongs to NYC Consumer Affairs.  I looked up their number and called asking for Richard Smith and the person had no idea who he was.  The number Richard Smith gave me was 646-543-4073.  Could not find that number listed anywhere in New York yellowpages.com  This has to be the same person that others on this site are talking about.
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    sue smith
    Tx. I just received threatening phone calls from the same phone number 951-489-0227 from a Patrick-stating that they had a pending lawsuit from unpaid payday loans.  They had ss #'s along with other personal information.  We have taken a payday loan before (over 4 yrs ago) but have no unpaid balances so we knew it was fraudulent.  A VERY thick Indian accented female and male are running this scam together.  I called back stating that we have  notified local law inforcement, a lawyer and the FBI and they have hung up on us numerous times with comments of "[***]" before hanging up and then not answering.  I am very thankful that so many other  people have listed this number and their information.  We are now contacting local law inforcement to report this and have the number traced.
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    Marie
    Did these people sound like they were Indian?
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    Marie
    I just talked to my bank and they said that in July nothing was trying to be taken out of my bank account! I am so [***] annoyed by these stupid [***] people!
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    ann
    I cant belive that this can actually happen. I am probably going to get fired because of the phone calls at my place of work. PLEASE CANT SOMETHING BE DONE TO STOP THE CALLS.
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    grasshopper1
    The first time I started recieving these type of phone calls I spent a couple weeks telling them that I didn't owe any money to them. Thats when the threats started to come in forms of having me arrested,contacting my employer and the like. So I finally told him that I would speak to him about this phony loan when he learned to speak english, after a shocked silence he hung up. I wish that was the end of the story but its not although the harrassment stopped for several months today they started again but this time they are repeating all my personal information to me. I'm kinda surprised he didn't tell me what I had for breakfast. Anyway I took day off to file report with police dept.,FTC put fraud alert in with transunion and contacted social security about them threatning to do something with my ss#, not sure what but I'm not taking chances. The only thing that might be funny about this is I'm so broke right now they would have to give me money so I could pay them.
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    Gina
    i just got this same exact phone call and his name was Josh Rajutes and he gave me back the same call back number. i was scared because i never recalled getting a payday loan. please let me know if you took this to the police
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    Stephanie from Nevada
    Today, at about 3:00pm, I got another call from Jack Martin.  He told me that I had a pending lawsuit against me that he ABSOLUTELY had to speak to me about.  I told him that I knew this was a scam, that I had already contacted the local police, and that if they called me again I would call the FBI and have every single phone call from here on, recorded.  He called me a B**** and I hung up the phone.  I am kinda curious if they will wait another 48 hours before calling me again.  I am sure this fiasco is not over and I am prepared to have some fun with it in the future.
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    me
    lol I just got a call from Peter Parker, and spidey informed me that I owed 800+ dollars and he would be notifying social security to have my monthly checks stopped. I have checked the bank account and yes no instances of someone trying to hit my account for the money.. they also told me may god be with me and I was going to feel the wrath of God lol sheesh what a bunch of idiots...
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    Warren From Effort Pa
    I get these calls all the time  I dont know how they got my number  but they call my cell phone.   and tell me they are from the federal agency  I have had all different names but the same scenerio   your name and social are in their database and they can stop me from being arrested.   if I pay.
    Well I usually tell them I work for the NYPD and I am waiting for my colleagues to arrest me.  also  I am reporting them to the feds and I want to be there when they picked up.  I know they arent in america  but using a Magic Jack on a foreign computer.  One even threatened to call me 20 times a day.  Liked him the most  his name was John Smith  the number they call from is 904-222-8312  760-437-6212 wish there was a way to catch these indian [***].
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    Janet Kerr
    I recieved a call from Alex he said I need to call this  number 951-489-0227.  I called it back and I got Ronnie Cooper on the phone he would not let me talk to Alex and he started that I owed 989.99.  If i did not pay it he was going to start proceeding against me and contact my work.  I am so glad I google and see that other people are being harrased by these people.  I was not going to send him money.
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    Slater from TX
    Got a call from an indian same scam as above asking for money cause i am being sued..951-489-0227 and 209-682-5052
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    Tray
    Yes I have too been getting same call from a heavy accent guy name Martin but he say he's officer Martin and this is a legal matter and I have to call back as soon as possible, he called my job and he called my moms job who has a bad heart n got her very upset that she was about to go get money out her acct n started to send them what they were asking for but I knew then it was a scam n told her to calm down bc he also told her I'd be put in jail. So it's nice to know I'm not the only one getting these calls but I also hate that' it's happening bc it's some out there that won't know and they'll give them what they asking for. So sad for ppl like that, may God be with them!
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    Ray
    New phone number from Florida: 704-990-6618, same story over and over. What's important now is what should each of us do? If they are in India we can't stop them, but how can we protect our identity?

    Can an expert tell us how to protect our identity? What are the steps to follow?

    Thank you
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    Ray
    Are there any good identity theift program that will protect your name, SSN, your bank account, your credit cards, your 401k,...etc?

    What should we do if they have our identity?
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    NLH
    I just received a call from Ron Cooper's office (951-489-0227). They stated that I owe $700 to Cash Advance America. The threatened to call my job and have me arrested.
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