Woman by the name of Amanda Black called and asked for my co-worker by name, when I told her she was not in she acted frustrated.... like she has been trying to get a hold of her forever..asked if I could let my co-worker know that "this is a legal matter and she must call her back at 213-232-4399"---the connection was really bad, it was hard to hear her and she had what to me sounded like a Filipino accent.
Un, it's not a 'collection agency'. It's scammers with your financial information trying to extort money from you. You should be worried about what info they have and what they are going to do with it.
The same thing happened to me! Same exact story, same guy with a foreign accent. He had all of my personal information including my address, ssn# and an old acct num. he said I owed $5000 and i used my company email addy to apply for the loan back in 2007. I figured it was a lie because I didnt have access to my work email till 2008. I called my lawyer and discussed it with her. she asked me to google the number. Unbelievable!
I to received multiple calls telling me i owe 1,0597 and if i didn't pay it immediately they was going to have me arrested and they had my old bank account# and ss#. I got a walmart phone card and paid them 500.00 because i was scared because I have had a loan online before. please help me get my money back. I had take money from my mortgage to pay them and now I am short. They told me the same story and I don't know what to do know. Please help.
I am really sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you will never get that money back. These people are not even in the US, they route their phone numbers through India and buy/steal your personal info in order to scare you into giving them money. You should change your bank account and sign up for some sort of credit monitoring. I was almost a victim of this scam, but luckily common sense told me they were not legit.