This is a criminal extortion ring operating out of India. ABC News released an investigative report on it in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
In the meantime, you are going to have to do whatever you can to protect yourself. That includes letting them know you are aware they are running a scam and are reporting them to the authorities.
same thing saying they had a lawsuit filed on my name and social sec #, I could take care of it today for $425, needed to let them know in 2 hours so they could update my case. If they did not hear from me, charges woul be filed.Very thick accent says his name was Steven Johnson. 202-241-7709 was the number. Caller id said unknown number. Don't you think if it was a real attoneys office, it would at least display the name, or you would get some type of letter, by the way last time I seen anyone with the name Steven Johnson, they could at least speek English. I recieved calls like this 6 mths ago, he said his name was Jimmy Johnson same [***]. SCAMMERS!!!!!!
All day today I have been getting calls from these people. They need to be stop. Just like rwildcat, they call me from another telephone saying the same thing. I wil not answer the phone but I am getting tried of it. If anyone knows how to stop these people please let me know.
Man ol Man! I received a phone call from the same 202 number and they stated that I owed $ from a pay day loan. I asked if they were sure it was me because I had never got a pay day loan. They assured that it was me by spitting back my social security #. Immediately a red flag went off in my head. I insisted that I had not gotton a loan so I asked what the date was of the loan and of course they couldn't tell me because it's a SCAM!!!! They also told me that if i didn't take care of the matter that the police would come to my place of employment and pick me up. I then called the local police and all they could do was make a report of it. They told me to just ignore the phone calls. They also told me that there is no judge in america going to issue an arrest warrant for non-payment unless there was first a civil trial which would result in a judgement and then and only then with several attempts to get payment for the judgement then there is an extremely small possibility that a warrant would be issued. My next step was, now that i know there is nothing these guys could do was to beat them at their own game. The next time they called I asked them to hold on a second that my lawyer wanted to talk to them. At this point with some help from the internet (I looked up some attorney lingo), I let them have it!
I wish you good luck and remember, it's not your fault, they are the bad guys, not you!
Big time scam. They called me a few years back and now calling me again. I told him to F OFF and that I was going to get the police on the line to talk with him. He said "let me get my senior attorney" and the call was lost. He called himseld John Smith. Seriously, if you are going to scam use a different name, for real??? DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. You cannot get arressted for not paying a bill....tell the guy his number is all over the internet and we all know it is a scam. Tell him you are calling the police ON HIM. That should get the calls to stop.