I received an email from a man name William C. Jones claiming to be from the Federal Trade Commission. Stating I have an arrest warrant because I owe a payday loan $640. I do not have any payday loan. I called the number from the email 202 239 0637 I got the answering machine a man speaking an Indian accent. These people are very DUMB SCAMMERS TRYING TO EXTORT MONEY FROM ANY AND EVERYONE THEY CAN!! DO NOT FALL THEIR SCAMS!!!
You receive a call saying they will loan you money, but you have to pay a fee upfront?
That is illegal:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/moneyma ... fee-loans.shtml
"If the offer of the loan is made by phone but you have to pay before you get access to any money, it’s illegal. It’s illegal for companies doing business in the U.S. by phone to promise you a loan and ask you to pay for it before they make good on their promise."
So all such calls are 100% scam.
The post by David is an attempt by the scammer to make the scam seem legit. David is a thief.
They call every two minutes since this morning trying to get my bank information. When I finally lost my temper and said stop he said would call every 3 minutes and he has left message saying I was being sued and arrested and "God have Mercy on my Soul. This is terrorism short and simple and I have to cut off MY phone to keep from being harassed something should be done not right innocent people are harassed like this.They call from different numbers over and over again So upset!!!!
People called from this number 2 times saying that there was a 3 lawsuits against me, not paying back a loan I never took, check fraud and deception to steal money from a company. They threaten you saying law enforcement will be at your home in about 3-4 hrs Jason Calafat is one of the attournies 1-202-239-7552 x 121.The number on a reverse search with the phone company does not register with the phone company. This is an extortion scam, someone has stolen my identification I believe to do this horrible crap.
just got back to my desk at work and listened to this voicemail from an indian dude that called himself Steve Parker!! i was laughing my [***] off listening to this fool barely be able to read from the obvious script he was trying to read from. you're from india, and you can barely speak english! how the hell is your name Steve Parker?!?! HAHAAHA!! i could understand his "name" better than anything else he said! LOL hilarious!!
today I got a call for my husband, I assumed it was a solicitor so I said, please take this number off your list. The Indian man on the line with a very thick accent said, "This is ABS legal, I'm not trying to sell anything, I need to talk to _____." I asked what this was regarding. He just repeated that it was a law office and needed to talk to ____. I asked if this was for a debt, and told him that by law he had to tell me....He was getting frustrated with me by then and said "Oh, my God! I want to talk to ____!" I told him that he was being offensive and that he still hadn't answered my question. He hung up on me. I called the number back, and asked for a supervisor because I wanted to file a complain about whoever had just called me. He started rattling off a number to me. I then realized that I was talking to the same person who had called me, and I asked that he remove me from their call list. He told me to call the number, he didn't want to talk to me. He hung up. I called back. This time he didn't even say the business name just "Hello". I asked for his name. He said it was Babbu. I then asked him if there was a reason he was being so rude to me. He said, "Yes". I said, could you tell me? He said "No". Then hung up again. By this time I was back home so my husband and I called together. I told him that ____ was on the line with me, as that was who he wanted to talk to, and he hung up on us.We tried calling back and it went straight to a voicemail. My husband left a message telling them not to call again with a few sentence enhancers....Tonight he gets to work and has a voicemail from them. How they got his work number and his extension, I have no idea. In the message they said that the matter was time sensitive and that if he or his lawyer didn't call back immediately he would be arrested, and "Not even God can help you". The number that they left to call them back was the same one we had gotten calls from. I googled the number and found this page! I have filed a complaint with FTC, anything else I need to do?