I too had been loking online at loan information over the past week. Today I get a call from Michael ?? (i could not understand his last name). he stated he was from a federal law office representing blah blah blah easycash (easy cash was hte only portion of that i could understand - this guy has a very deep accent). he said that i owed them money and he woudl be sending paperowrk to the court to have me arrested if i did not make arrangements to pay today. I asked for a nubker to return his call, he gave me 209-757-5214. Later today I returned the call and the guy who answered simple said "hello" in a sleepy american voice. When i asked who i was speaking to to just handed the phone to someone else. then i asked again who i was speaking to and they asked who i wanted to speak to. i said i was returning a call from Michael. Michael came on the phone and he immediately knew who i was because of caller id. He said he represented "instacashusa" - huh...different company from this morning..... and that i owed them $445.00 and that they would be coming to take me to court on friday. I said well that will be hard since i am in Missouri and you are in california, he said dont worry about that, arrangement will be made - but you can make arrangement to pay this troday and we will not arrest you. i told them i had never doen business with the company and i had bank statements to proove no electronic business had occured btw us. he said i dont believe in bank statement or in anything else you may have to prove your innocense. i told them i would contact my lawyer and they could talk to him then i hung up.
I have never had a loan with either of these companies, so i am choosing to ignore these threats. however they are calling me at my workplace, they know the company i work for, and asked me to verify my account number at my bank (which i refused to do). They have my name and date of birth...it is scary...and on top of that i am trying to work, i dont need my mind cluttered up with crap like this. it is total harassment!!! I have contacted my bank, they recommend that i close my currect account and reopen a new one ot be safe. Anyone else have suggestions on dealing with these people.
Yes the same thing is happing to me I was looking for a loan on line , And I will never do that again.
The First time thease people called me was from an 888 number ... this is a scam and Im going to change my bank ....
I received a blocked call this morning and an Indian guy left a message stating that I or my lawyer needed to call right away and he left his 209-757-5214 number. I knew right off it was some sort of SCAM as I don't owe anyone money. So I did look it up and reviewed all of the above notes. The guy then called again and before I could answer the phone the call went into voicemail. Same thing, have my lawyer or myself call right away. So I called the number back and some Indian dude answered saying that the place was some Federal whatever. It sounded like a cell phone, so I hung up and I ended up texting him to see if it was a cell phone. I basically said in my text that I knew he was a SCAM cause he was posted over the internet and I told him to go "F" himself. Anyways, it obviously is a cell phone because I didn't get an error message from my cell phone stating that it was a landline. I know he probably got my number from some stupid loan thing I filled out on the internet. I can't figure out why what he's doing is not considered illegal. Fortunately for me and the rest of the people that posted his number - we're not naive enough to fall for this SCAM. I feel for the people that do. Anyways, I think websites like this one are great as it's the only way we can stick together and fight these SOB's...
i just had a loooong groggy convo after listening to a voicemail saying pretty much if you or your LAWYER (whaaa? sounds serious right, you better caaaalll) don't call this number back, good luck to you because something bad will happen.
so i called the number that they left in the message (because 0000 is where the call showed up on id as) and i speak to a nice young Indian(?) attorney about some loan i had out and that he was gonna tell my work if i didn't send him 200 dollars...i was freeeeeaking out. i had no clue what this guy was talking about.
i HAD used a payday loan website ONCE (my mom and boyfriend lectured the HELL out of me for it too) and i guess they swiped some info from there or my email or something and were trying to scare me out of some money.
man had i not JUST woken up i may have had my wits better about me, but luckily all i lost was time. i didn't give him any of MY info, and he got all sketchy and panicky when i asked him to verify the web address for the company that's supposedly gonna press charges against me and notify my employer if i don't cough of some moolah. i wanted to log-in to verify that i didn't have anything outstanding that i could view...
anyway i got cut off when i started sleuthing his jive, and then i ended up calling customer service for the payday loan website. the super nice lady who got my call was soooo cute and made me feel so much better. "yeaaaahh that was a scam, honey".
haha all in all it's funny now but i was sooo stressed out for about 20 minutes there. i didn't even notice i hadn't had coffee haha.
yea, i got the same call this morning; his name was mike wilson. I wished they would go back from whereever they came from because he is not AMERICAN!!!!