Pay day loan allegations

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Melanie Dillon
Country: United States
I just received a call from a Paul Smith stating that I deliberately got a pay day loan from Cash Advance America and did pay it back.  They are stating I owe $365.89 and that if I didn't take care of this then my local sheriff's office will be notified and I will be arrested and put in jail for 90 days.  And also my employer is being notified.  But the first thing that made me realize that this was false is that he asked me if the sheriff had already come by and notified me of this case, which of course they haven't because there is no case.  Also I knew that I didn't do any pay day loan last year.  Such [***] that people like this can do these things and know some of my personal information and call me and get me really mad in front of my children.  I would like to be a part of any case if anything is done.  The phone number they called me from was 1-914-363-5004. And of course he hung when I started yelling at him stating he's full of [***].

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    tj
    | 3 replies
    What information did he have on you?

    Did you ever apply to an online payday loan website?
    If so, did the information he had match what you might have entered?

    Any thick accent?
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      Grayday replies to tj
      Yes and yes. Perfect description
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      ks replies to tj
      | 1 reply
      Yes this has happened to me. Very thick accent? I could hardly understand him and he threatened me with a possible warranty for my arrest. He said I threatened him with a law suit.
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        tj replies to ks
        Threats are cheap, especially if you get to hide in India, safe from arrest or prosecutioni.
        It's a scam, of course.

        Ignore them.
        Or if they continue to harass you with calls, call and harass them back.
        Some have reported that that finally gets the message across.
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    guard121
    Got a call from this number today from someone named James White, heavy asian accent,left two messages stating that a lawsuit was going to be filed against my name and social security number and if I did not call them back, I was going to be in serious trouble and noone would be able to help me. These people need to be hunted down and eradicated. It's all just a scam and these people are becoming more and more brazen with what they are doing.
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    Zapped
    I have the same story but the name was a different color. "Shawn Brown" called me looking for "Jane Johnson" but left a voicemail saying they were from the Dept. of Law and Investigation. I called it back just because it pissed me off that they were so fake. Number was 914.363.5004 and the names are all bogus. Nothing will be done about it but hey...at least everyone who reads this as well will know that it isn't legit.  BTW, after they hung up on me my number to them is being routed directly to their VM.
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    ks
    I have also gotten a voice mail from a "Shawn Brown", a "David Jones", a "Ben Johnson". I got my first online payday loan in April 2012, paid it off and kept getting calls from these people.  I stopped returning their calls and they stopped until last Friday. Then I got the threatening call I mentioned above.
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    sl
    I have had the same threating phone call. I wush that there is something to be done about the. Especially cslling and harassing my work.
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    HALLESHAUF
    THEY ARE FULL OF IT! I pressed the operator for the lawyers name and bar number and he gave me Steve Henry the first time and Mike Wilson the second time then said he would transfer me and hung up.  

    I HATE THIS KIND OF STUFF!
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    an
    got a call and voicemail from 317-614-0866
    "uh hi uh (my correct first name) this is keith parker from cash avdance america (first name) we have got you (not misspelling, did not say YOUR or didn't pronounce the R...) loan application which you have applied online and now it has been approved so uh (first name again) mumbling" and then message cut off.

    I never have applied for any loan application online. Nor have I for car insurance quotes but I get those calls regularly too. This wouldn't freak me out so much if my first name wasn't correctly associated with my cell number.

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