Scam Phone Calls
Complaint
Anonymous
Country: United States
Yesterday, I received a call from a "Kevin Johnson" who claimed to be calling to collect on a debt owed on a payday loan. He spoke in a thick Indian accent. I informed him that I was filing chapter 7 bankruptcy and gave him my lawyer's information. Today, he called me back from 1 (311) 695-3764. He left a call back number on my voicemail asking to call him back on this number: 1(347) 602-4551. Then he called me back this evening and would not give me any information except to tell me that he was collecting for a payday loan from Cash Advance. I have never heard of this company, first off. Second off, he was very rude and hung up on me when I was trying to get information. He had my social security number and said he had an affidavit for my arrest. I am very concerned b/c I have read on the internet that this is a scam and this guy has my social security number. I am going through a bankruptcy and I am hoping to establish some credit and I don't need some wierd scammer with my social...
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On Monday the same clown called - only this time his name was Detective Luca Martin of the NYPD. He said he had an arrest warrant to serve on me...in VIRGINIA! I asked for what and he said for not paying back a payday loan. I began to laugh and told him "...now, let me get this straight - a few days ago you were a lawyer named Kevin Johnson - today you're a cop in New York." And I laughed. I then told him that he will ***** NEVER ***** get me to divulge my bank account number, debit card or credit card numbers and he was wasting his time.
He turned on me at that moment and began uttering death threats! He told me that he will send "them" (whomever "them" is) to my home - and he quoted my full address - where I would be gang raped and then my children will be killed in front of me!
I have reported this to the FBI, but since the piece of dog crap is in India, I wonder what - if anything - they can do?
Get them on the phone, let them think they getting somewhere... and KA_POW_EE really let them have it
Questions for them:
Q: Why don't you open convenience store so you can "ha-laise the plice"?
Q: Why don;t you just stop tipping at restaurants?
Q: Why don't you terminate female infants to avoid the dowry?
They are powerless to do jack s###.... they are going to get a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant based on a completely unverifiable contention made by someone on a magic jet cell phone with a name like Steve Johnson with a think hindi accent???? No verification of debt available... YEAH RIGHT!!!!
I like it... The power of the word
It is a scam, and he is a powerless, lying, unemployable, useless piece of S*&* calling on a Magic Jack Phone from some India armpit. He probably got you name off a TELNET fishing list on the internet. Ignoring him is definetly an option, on the other hand, I started asking them how many of his daughters he snuffed to avoid paying the dowry?, how come his breathe smells like curry?, why doesn;t he go to work in an Indian call center so he can steal credit card info to sell?, get a job driving a cab so he can rip-off tourists.......... then I go nasty with them....
They don't call me anymore, I can;t seem to figure out why... :>)
I'll give him a ring and see if I can shake his peaches a little bit
Two million
Three Million Apu's
Four million
Five million
Six million Apu's
Seven Million
Eight Million
Nine Million Apu's
10 Million Little Scam artist, lying, lazy, female infant killing, dowry dodging, stolen credit card lead selling, cab driving, not tipping, cowardly, cheap skate, little indian boys
You don't stop it. Your name likely ran through a system called TELNET which is used by payday loan companies to check and see how many loans you have out with other payday loan companies.
What these scam artists do, is they sat up a bogus paper payday loan company so they can access TELNET data. (aka people have have applied for loans)
They then call you, lie, threaten etc to see if you are foolish enough or scared enough to pay on a completely bogus debt which they can never validate because it does not exist.
They have all sorts of ficitious organizations they represent, blah blah blah
And each scammer who has access to telnet will call to give it a try.
Refer to callers you do not recognize as "APU" only. They like it when you call them that..
Ask him the following questions...........
Why does your breathe smell like Curry?
IF you are short on cash, why don;t you stop tipping at restaurants?
etc etc... they are mentioned in the posts in this thread...
Get nasty, and outright beligerant... It is all they understand...
The only satisfactory outcome for one of these callers if for you to agree to let them draw a payment from your account... MAKE IT CLEAR IF HELL FREEZES OVER that is not going to happen.
All there threats are idle.... It is just some idiot on a magic jack phone from India....
I had about 22 of them try this with me, and now they don't call anymore
PS Many of them say "May I have the number of your a-tour-knee" The last thing they want to talk to is an attorney, it is just a stupd quetion designed to scare. Look up the number of the district attorney where you live and give him that number... tell him he may direct all future calls there...
His call back number was (919) 350-0838 Claimed to be Brad Anderson
So I called him back, told him I seriously doubt his name is "Brad Anderson" and I said "Let me guess, the 23 previous callers with thick indian accents and american names were all lying about a debt, and you are telling truth... right?"
I suggested he get with his mother and create more little Apu's, he called me a effing [***] and actually tried to call 2 more times before he realized he needed to move onto his next lead on his TELNET Fishing list.
I actually enjoyed the process, I hope he did as well....
The scammers have found this useful, although a lady in WV who was harassed by one of these fake "sheriff" calls, complete with spoofed caller id, sued and won a $10 Million judgement. They just fold up shop.
Basically, ignore all strange callers. They are mostly swindlers now, so there's just no reason to waste your time even talking to them.
Any real debt collector with a real debt will mail you a letter.
Anyone actually suing will serve you a summons.
All others are fakes.