It is interesting how those people always call when I am away from the phone, and they NEVER leave a message. Doing an internet search I learned that this is part of a network of hucksters that are out to collect information from people, when they actually answer the telephone. Once they "harvest" information from people, they will use it for fraud or other nefarious purposes. Caution! Don't answer, and if you do, hang up immediately! Those phonies need to get a life!
Just dont answer their calls and they leave you alone. Not saying that what they're doing is right, but if enough people ignored them they would have to quit.
Phony debt collectors with Indian accents are calling people trying to scare them into paying debts that are not theirs. Some of the company names they use are American Credit Services, TAC Evolution, Allied Financial Services, CashNetUSA, Sonic Bank, Sonic CashNet, CashLand, and Cash America. If you know of others, please add them in the comments section below. The fake debt collectors call and say you will be arrested and thrown in jail unless you send money immediately. The amounts claimed seem to be $400 or $1,095 and a smattering in between. The calls most often arrive on a Friday when all government office are closed so you can’t check out their story. The callers use the names of real attorneys they found on the internet. The goal of the scam is to scare the person getting the call into sending money via Western Union or MoneyGram or to give up their bank details to hit your bank account, in order to prevent the police from coming to arrest you in the next few hours. If you want to listen t what these calls sound like, click here. Apparently there are a number of telephone numbers tied to this scammer that I believe is calling from a call center in India via voice over IP, (VOIP). So the callers really are not even in the United States although they pretend to be. Armed with the contact information the scammers in India call make outbound calls on a VOIP telephone line and forge any outgoing phone ID they want. It’s not hard to do. (By the way, if you want to unmask any blocked number and find out who is calling, try Trapcall.) They might even use a number from a block of VOIP numbers they’ve rented to receive return calls. After a short period of time they dump the number and start using a new number. I found at least one of the numbers listed as being used by these scammers was issued by LES.net, a VOIP service provider.