Hi there....I received a message today from Special Agent John Tanner from the FDA however, he was Hispanic. He left me a number of 202-769-5241 ext. 2227. When I called the number it was an answering machine with a man disguising his voice as a woman. I could tell immediately that it was the same person that had called me. So far, no one has called back. What is weird to me, I just ordered the cami shaper off of the internet, and I have a feeling that he got my information some how through that order.
Guess what? haven't heard from Spec. Agent Wm. Ramsey and it's 28 hrs later - lol. Found something that may be of interest. Some (or all) of you may know about this already, but these calls can be reported to the U.S.Dept of Justice,DEA, Office of Diversion. There'a no email addy, but the phone # is 1-877-792-2873 (Report Extortion Scam).They ask for as many details about these bogus calls as possible. You do not have to identify yourself. I got a voice mail. I think that's the way it works, just reporting on voice mail. This is from their website:
"Impersonating a federal agent is a violation of federal law. The public should be aware that no DEA agent will ever contact members of the public by telephone to demand money or any other form of payment."
Apparently, once these fake agents hook you, they offer to drop any investigation or arrest warrants if "X" amount of money (a "fine") is paid via "wire transfer" to designated location, usually overseas (interesting). If people have purchased online meds using a credit card, fraudulent use of their credit cards has also been reported.
The date on the DOJ DEA document is 1/30/13, so I assume it's pretty up to date.
I called the DOJ and reported my call in detail, including the phone # the "agent" gave me. I also called the "agent's" # back, got an outgoing message identifying the agency as the FDA./DEA which went straight to voicemail, identifying the number I'd called as the FDA/DEA...whatever. I left a message, something to the effect of "this is for Spec. Agent William "[***]" Ramsey (apologies for the language), told him I was looking at this page online (but did not specify which page it is, to protect the privacy of anyone posting here). Told him I'd reported him to the DOJ DEA Extortion Scam dept. and would report him and the phone # to any/all authorities I could find. I was less than polite.
Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to make sure the info was available to anyone who wanted to use it.
Awesome! I called the wireless company that the "agent" had supposedly made these calls from.Then I emailed both the DEA, FDA and gave them the wav file from the phone recording. At least we now have a voice that belongs to Special Agent Tanner. LOL!