Calling threatening me with 120 days in jail if i do not pay them for a payday loan. I was told that it was being forwarded to the district attorney in my county. When I started asking questions i was hung up on. These people are beyond repulsive and I am not sure how they get people to work at these scam companies.
received message about a pretrial arrest warrant for a debt under my name and last 4 of my soc. I called back, was disconnected and then called a second time. Both times the phone was answered in a different dept. Now when I started asking questions the guy started yelling at me and CUSSING at me F*** this F*** that called me a dumb B*** and hung up on me. Also telling me I was going to be arrested today and sit 160 days in jail on a bench warrant.
I'm totally dumbfounded as to what this is all about...but this just CAN'T be real can it??
I got the same thing.... after doing some research it appears to be a scam. I don't recall a payday loan back from November of 2012 and if I did have one they would have debited my account and gotten the money.... I have had the same account for years...... plus you cannot be arrested for bad debt.
Total scam. Warrants are only issued by judges in criminal cases and they are only issued to duly constituted law enforcement officials. They are never issued to debt collectors. Debt collectors hive no influence on the criminal justice system at all. Debt is a civil matter and you can't be arrested for an ordinary civil debt. This is a total scam.
If you have received a call stating:
1. You have defrauded a financial institution
2. You owe an unpaid payday loan
3. You have a warrant due to an unpaid loan
5. You will receive a court summons
6. Authorities are coming to arrest you
7. Anything similar to above,
a. Do not give them any information or verify any information for them
b. Tell them you know they are a scam operating illegally and that you are filing a complaint with the appropriate authorities
* File a complaint with the FBI on their Internet Crime webpage http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
* File a complaint with the Attorney General for the state you live in
The more information and complaints there are, the better the chance of getting these criminals to stop (or at least reduce the frequency). [abstracted from another site]
They continue to bother you, tell them you are going to the police to make a complaint of extortion.