I too received a call from this company. The guy was foreign with a very thick accent. It was very hard to comprehend the message. What I do know that he was saying that if I didn't call back, I would be behind bars. That is a direct violation from the Fair Credit Act for any collections caller whom I assume he was. I don't even know the person he was calling about because it wasn't even my name or I couldn't understand the name he said! Any help with Mr. John Smith would be helpful. What a joke!
The very same thing happened to me yesterday. I was threatened and whoever it was new my social, name and place of employment. They said I had 2 hours to pay them or they would have me arrested. I hung up and someone called me back left a voice mail and told me to call them by the end of the day or have an attorney to call them.
Today again I got another call by these people. This time it came at 12:42pm and it was Anonymous Caller. I picked up the phone and this Ryan started to make the most disgusting threats to me that you can imagine. He treatened to tie my husband up and that he and his friends were going to rape me all night long while my husband had to watch and then they would beat him and kill him. That was enough for me to contact my local PD and have them do what they can do. This is not right.
I did call PacWest and made a complaint and the person that I spoke with Brian, did state that the 650-284-0454 number was a valid number in their system. Something also strange happened while I was one the phone with them yesterday. This Ryan dude supposedly put me on hold but then I could hear an entire conversation with his girlfriend who was English speaking without an accent and he kept telling her that he didn't want her doing something because it wasn't good for her health. Then he kept telling her how much he loved her and what he wanted to do to her sexually. Yuck!!!! Something I definately didn't need to hear.
These people are bottom feeders and hopefully if PacWest does have them in their customer base then they have an actual phone line coming into somewhere that the police in that area can go to and arrest these lowlifes.
I am just afraid that if they get in touch with someone that they may actually cause someone to have a heart attack or stroke because of how they yell and threaten people.
I got home this afternoon after work, and noticed that i had a message. I had to listen to it several times due to the heavy accent, but he identified himself as a "John Smith". He did the same thing as all the others, told me to call back immediatley, very time sensitive, and good luck with watever unfolds, or else everybody will be killed. All i have to say is i hope this guy calls while i am home. I am a police officer, and i have a strong feeling they do not realize where i work at. If they do, i can only hope to god they do call my work place and threaten to me, or especially my supervisor, that on officer will be at my work place in an hour to arrest me!