I have been getting voice mails on my cell phone and work numbers saying i need to call right away...very threatening saying i owe money from old payday loan? I have paid my payday loans...either way in the very broken english I think they said they would come get me in the middle of the night if i didn't call them back NOW. I am very concerned, I am so afraid someone at my job is going to get this call and i am going to get fired. I have kept the threatening voice message. Does anyone know how to get them to stop??????? Please help
I just got a call from Jack Roberts from a Legal Affidavit firm in CA. He said that I took out a payday loan in 11/2006 for $300 and never paid it back. The call started off with a man with an indian accent asking if me if the last four digits of my SS# (which he read off correctly) were correct. I refused to answer and asked why he was asking. He went on to ask who my attorney was and I replied that I didnt have an attorney...He said, wow, you dont have an attorney for the charges you are facing? I asked what the charges were, and he read of three charges, which were theft by deception and a couple of others. I told him that I had never taken a payday loan out in my life, and he said that they had all of the documents to prove it. I asked him who the police officer in charge was, or the court that the affidavit was from, and he said that I would be receiving all of those documents tomorrow. He then read of my entire bank account number, along with the full name of my bank, and said that I needed to settle this. I knew from the beginning that this had to be a scam, but I went on to ask him what his phone number was, and he said it was 213-221-1440.....I called my bank the second I hung up, and she encouraged me to close my account...I was also encouraged to look up the phone number on google, which thankfully brought me to this and other sites that showed me that other people had experienced these same calls. This isnt right, these people are illegally gaining access to our personal information, and it's causing us to have to switch or close bank accounts, buy new checks...etc. Hopefully, by continuing to get the word out, we will be able to prevent others from having to do more than just close their bank accounts and buy new checks. I dont want these ignorrant people to gain a penny from anyone, especially innocent bystanders. Any idea what, if anything can be done about this???
Please keep posted... I found an abc article regarding this--http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5621205&page=1 as well as articles from other people on rip-off report.com. My biggest fear at this point is my employer getting these calls. I do not understand with all the police reports and reports to the attorney general that something can't be done with these people. I have a not in my stomach everyday. Please let me know how you all do with this. Thanks.