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Kellie
Country: United States
I got a call at my work from an Eric Johnson heavy indian accent 626-384-3258 claiming he was a parallegal for Ronnie Cooper and that I owed over $700 on a cash loan. Threatened to send his team to my work to collect information on me and have me fired. My manager asked him for company info on him but he would not give it, then asked for his address that's when he said stop waisting my time and hung up. It's a scam don't freak out just ignore the calls.

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    tj
    Typical fake "payday loan debt collection" phone extortion racket.

    Callers are usually from overseas, often India or Pakistan.

    Report to the FBI, and ignore their threats.
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    fedupwiththis
    I have also been getting these calls after taking out a pay day loan and making having payment arrangements.  I contact and forwarded this information to the company that i took the loan out with and they claim that they do not have any contact with this law firm.  To further this, they change the name of the law firm and call every week including my work phone.  
    They claim that if you pay back all the money no harm will come to me, then tell me that my arrangements are not valid and i will save money paying them.  
    This is a hug scam and they have my social security number and have no response to accounts, only demanding money to extort from anyone not brave enough to stand up to these deplorable actions
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    fedupwiththis
    | 1 reply
    Who do you contact with the FBI?
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      Mrs. J replies to fedupwiththis
      Make a report in www.icg3.com. This guy is a complete stranger who threatened to come to my house. I called the local sherriffs who are keeping an eye out and made a complaint on this website. It is through the FBI bureau. Good Luck!
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    tj
    Either call your regional office, or DC.

    Or file a report on their tip site.
    https://tips.fbi.gov/

    Not all that much they can do, if the scammers are calling from overseas, unless they have helpers in the U.S.

    But if you have any doubts about whether these crooks can actually do anything to you, it's worth talking to your regional office, just so you know for sure it's a scam.

    If they are calling you via VoIP (and your caller id is showing "Vitelity LLC", for example), you might contact the telecom company, maybe get their number shut off.
    www.vitelity.com
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    tj
    They are not a "law firm".

    They are a criminal phone racket, probably calling from overseas, usually India.

    If you applied for several payday loans online, they may have obtained your information through one of their fake "payday loan application" websites, or they may have gotten access to old data from some defunct lender.  Whatever, it's all a scam.
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    tj
    Looks like they got one.

    http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/acc.shtm

    "...
    For Release: 02/21/2012
    Court Halts Alleged Fake Debt Collector Calls from India, Grants FTC Request to Stop Defendants Who Often Posed as Law Enforcement
    At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation that the FTC alleges collected phantom payday loan “debts” that consumers did not owe.  Consumers received millions of collection calls from India, and that since January 2010 the operation took in more than $5 million from victims, according to the FTC.
    ..."

    If you are being harassed by this type of scam, contact FTC.
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    Concerned citizen
    | 2 replies
    I just got a call from at my work from this foreign guy as well. He claims he has all my information and I need to call Ronnie Cooper "RIGHT NOW". It's supposed to be a law firm and there is supposed to be a debt against me. The problem is, I never took out a payday loan. Sure, I thought about it and even went so far as to give me info...(stupidity on my part), but I didn't go through with it.
    The phone number he called from is: 9162873958.
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      B. Richards replies to Concerned citizen
      I've been getting calls from the EXACT number for about a week now. I hate that he has allllllll of my information. Sometimes he calls and leaves messages and other times he will actually talk instead of breathing. This is ridiculous!!!!!
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      Tammi replies to Concerned citizen
      I just got a call from the same people. The number is 916-287-3815. Who can I call to report them?
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    cardinal
    I also got a call from this Ronnie Cooper fellow threatening me to be arrested at my work place. I was scammed and payed him $200.00, but not the next time.
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    weboy
    this person is still at it he called and said I owed money also but I never got any money to owe anything to him. So I look his name up and the name went to a scam report so I called the number back and told them that I was aware of what there trying to do and a I was going to report them to the F.B.I, I could tell that the guy was nervous. From now own I know not to respond to no more payday loan ads!!!!!  don't let these people scam you.
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    ars
    I just got a call from the same group of people. He claimed his name was Michael Davis, from that Copper law office at 7 am cst which is 5 am pst. That's where they messed up. All of a sudden I was all kinds of B's and was told to shut my mouth and stay in my place and listen and the police were coming to arrest me. I pulled the FBI card on them then they hung up. They were a bunch of idiots!

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