harassment
Complaint
richard moore
Country: United States
This law firm has called our house several times. This IS a scam. If you are being sued, you WILL be served a summons. If these people call you, tell them its Harassment which IS federally illegal since its a web based scam and telephone scam.
Comments
You don't owe them ANYTHING.
Even if they appeared to have information on some debt you recognize, you wouldn't owe it to them. There are reports indicating that they are obtaining U.S. consumer information from credit reports, skip-trace services, and phony on-line "payday loan" sites, which would allow them to fake claims that you "owe" them some "debt", using information from your own credit report.
File a fraud complaint with the FBI, although since they're in India, it's not likely anything will happen to them.
If they call back, just tell them you have reported their scam to the FBI, and you are recording their call for use as evidence. Once they realize you can't be conned, they will move on to some other sucker.
All the legal sounding gibberish is just BS. They lie, they threaten, but that's all they can do. There is no "payday loan", though they must think every American has taken out hundreds of them, so they can be convinced they "forgot to pay" one of them.
ANYONE can get a cheap cell phone, or a VoIP account, and start running a phony "payday loan debt collector" extortion racket, from anywhere in the world. The phone numbers keep changing, and it's really low on the priorities of law enforcement in India, for example, if some American gets taken.
There are a lot of people out there doing this, and more every day. They just keep calling and making up BS until they hit a sucker and get money.
They are, however, vulnerable at two points:
1) Their phone provider. They may be using VoIP, but most likely use the same carrier even though they may change phone numbers frequently.
2) Their method of getting the money transferred.
If the scam got that far, how did they say payment should be sent?
Western Union?
MoneyGram?
Other?
F my social security number av
Nd claim I have been in jail based on my credit score. I have never taken a payday load
N so I have no idea where they get there info. I know it is a scam but it is getting very uncomfortable. I have played there messages to coworkers who agree with me. I just wish it would stop. I put alerts on my credit, my bank account, and my social security number. My work says they will tell these people I no longer work there. I just want to know when this will stop!
It appears that you may have applied on one of their fake sites, which passed your information to this scam.