saying a felony warrant would be issued tomorrow for check fraud on a cash advance that I stopped

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Lisa Tannehill
Country: United States
I got a call from my mother and daughter today saying a lady had called from Justified Mediation but left no number for me to call, we had to go to caller i.d. to find the number.
When I called them, they transferred me to a different dept. and the lady said I owed 522.00 on a payday loan taken out in 2010 that I had put a stop payment on and closed that account in 2010. Of course what info she had was on wrong bank, that bank went out of business and was taken over by a different bank. Nor  was the check I gave Ace one from Washington Mutual, she proceeded to tell me that if I didn't pay this that a felony warrant would be issued tomorrow for me on check fraud. I told her I needed till morning to come up with money as I am on SSS and have a limited income. she gave me till 8:45 am to do so. Thankfully I didn't fall for this and did research and found that I can not be arrested for not paying that loan and that this scam has been going on now for some time. Besides if this is a mediation center then how come I got no chance to settle this for when I offered to pay 300.00 she said I could make that amount tomorrow but would still have to pay the 232.00 owed or be arrested and of course there is a 9.95 debit card fee for every payment.. Prior to this call I had been getting weird calls from men with Nigerian accents coming from an unknown number and when the calls started at 3 am I told them if they called anymore I would get a reversal look up and press charges, the calls stopped and then 3 weeks later I get this nightmare. I live in Calif. and if Ace was going to go to mediation with me wouldn't it be hard for me to do if they are in Florida? The number that I returned call to today was 813-600-4048

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    SamCM
    Tey reached out to my brother in-law who Ihavent spoken to in about 3 years. Tld him that I'm gonna have a Felony Warrant for my arrest. So he gets in touch with me through my family and I call. When he asked me for a payment of $1,075 I decided to look it up on google and I found this Forum. Thank you guys for writing about this. He got so upset as I read erverything outloud. Told me that he read on the internet that Biggie and Tupac had lunch today so that I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet. LMAO. Thanks everyone I appreciate having this up.
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    steve
    Does anyone have an address for these people
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    kevin
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    Now they are calling from 911
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      tj replies to kevin
      Spoofing caller id to appear to be calling from the "Sherriff" is an old shakedown trick.
      Problem is, if they get caught, judges don't find it amuzing.

      A lady in West Virginia won a $10 Million judgement against one such scam "debt collector".
      They shut down and ran, but FTC recently raided a cluster of similar scam operations with common ownership.

      File complaints with FTC and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including reporting the fake "911" caller id.
      www.ftc.gov
      www.consumerfinance.gov
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    Mark
    So I think they are changing it up a little.  So I got a call from Investigative Services, the number they used was 215-600-1366, she said her name was Tiffany Harris and that she was investigating me for some sort of criminal action and wanted to get my statement before turning the matter over to the police department so that a warrant could be issued.  They called my ex wife, sister and mom as well.  It was about some check that bounced and that they were giving me a chance to fix the problem.  This was supposedly back in 2006.  I called the bank and they had no record of it.  I googled the company name and number and nothing came up so I think this is a very new name and number.  She transferred me to a Chief Jenkins were he continued to try and scare.  This is a scam for sure, never give out financial information over the phone, you never know who is on the other side of the line.  Kind of scary how they can get all that contact information.  Be careful
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    RF
    So I just went a few rounds with the newest members of this scam.  The woman I spoke to goes by the name of Autumn Weeks (SERIOUSLY??) and the company is using the name Legal Mediation.  The phone number is 512-861-0412, out of Austin, Texas (I looked it up).  They claimed that a "Felony Arrest Warrant" had been issued for my husband and they were trying to keep the police from arresting him.  This Autumn person, then puts me through to an "Attorney" who would NOT give me HER name, but she did say that the info was wrong and that the "Arrest Warrant" had not yet been issued and that she needed some info on my husband to prevent it from being issued.  I requested she give me info on WHAT the charges were and also her name, which she refused to do.  She said that she felt I was being a little sarcastic (REALLY...YOU THINK?) and that she felt she wasn't going to get any where with me in resolving the matter.  I told her I thought this whole thing was a scam and that I would be turning her company over to the State's Attorney General's Office (did I mention, I lived in California??) and she said fine....she talks to them on a daily basis!!  lol  I'm sure she does....probably because there are dozens of complaints filed about this company. At this point she said she was offended and didn't have to take my attitude and hung up!    PLEASE PEOPLE....when these scammers call you...HANG UP THE PHONE...and if you can, BLOCK the number.  Although, they might try calling back from a different number at some point in time.  DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES give the ANY INFO!!!!!  They have no jurisdiction in California if they are in Texas....they are LIARS and SCAMMERS....don't be FOOLED!!!!!
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    KP
    I got a call from someone this morning,The person that called first asked for my work HR number too, and I gave it to them. then they said that I could call the people who were trying to contact my HR department, so I called a place supposedly called MPG and associates, D Williams, with a number of 888-370-5317.  She said that they wanted to talk to my work so they could come serve me with papers because Cash Call has felony changes against me, then she named two other places that supposedly have charges against me too, but it was too late to work with them?  I was actually going to pay them something but she wouldn't accept the small amount that I offered and said that I would have to pay more, you would think, if legit, they would work with you take what you can pay and do a payment plan.  I closed the account they are talking about because there was fraud on it... when I wouldn't do a large payment she said "ok see you in court".  I am relieved to see it is a scam, what a horrible thing to do to people.
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    LZ
    Keep getting a call from a Investigator Tiffany Harris with Investigation Services saying some obligations have showed up in her office and she would like to give me a opportunity to make a statement on my behalf before a possible warrant is filed with the county. Calling from a 214-865-6421 which comes back from TX. If you have something that important it will come in the mail per my lawyer. Go get a real job and stop trying to take peoples money. SCUM....
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