On my phone at work I had a voicemail from a man saying he was Kevin Johnson with the US Legal Investigation Bureau that I was being investigated for internet fraud. He left a number 213-226-6944, so I called. He had my name address and social security number. He told me not to interrupt him while he talked, he said I had gotten some kind of payday loan on the internet, I said I never did, he said I told you not to interrupt. If you don't get this taken care of not even God can help you. I hung up.
I received a message like all of you and the person on the message said that he was a senior investigator with United Legal Investigative Bureau and he said that my son (and he used his name) and said that there was a legal law suit against him in Massachusetts because he had used my name, social security number.He said he was calling ahead of time for me to talk to my son and let him know that they were going to arrest him the next day.He said his name was Will Buxton and that he was a senior investigator with United Legal. I called back and he also used several other names when I asked him what his name was. Arnold Watson, Officer Bryan and Will Buxton. He had some kind of foreign accent.
I think he (they) should be the ones that have a legal law suit brought against him (them) for stealing information from wherever they got it and put in jail and throw away the key. They are using the information that they have and scaring the you know what out of me and others.Again, I kept asking his name, who he worked for and I finally just hung up. I hesitated and thought maybe I should contact the Police Department of FBI or someone and let them now that this is going on.
On 9/4/08 i received the same type of call only i investigated them, they are a scam and you do need to report them to the local police and FBI along with the secret service, if you read the commetns further up it tells you how to go about doing this and the exact websites to email at. my local police dept forwarded my complaint to the FBI for me. This is a major scam and do not give them you information. If you block your number and call them and harass them on a daily basis they will give up on calling you.
FYI...the Attorney General of West Virginia recently issued a press release warning consumers of this debt collection scam. Here's the weblink: http://www.wvago.gov/internetloanscam.cfm
Got a phone call today from the "National Processing Service" saying that I took out some payday loan (which never occured) and that since I failed to repay it I was going to be arrested tomorrow at my job. They said that I had bank statements to prove I accepted the deposit. They knew who I banked with but when I asked for my account number it was ALL WRONG. Then he told me my social security number (which was off by 1 number) so I told him that was wrong. Then he told me my home address which was correct except that I hadn't lived there in over 2 years, and have moved three times since then. At that point I started asking questions where did I work? He DID know that, but everything else wasn't adding up so I hung up on him. I don't think I ever gave the schmo a chance to ask me for money. I was a bit shaken that he knew so much information about me, but the fact that the first guy I talked to was foreign, and I called back to confirm the name of their "company", that guy was foreign too.
These guys have called me constantly. All of them threatening arrest or charge me with fraud if I didn't pay them. All of the people that called sounded as if they were calling from a call center in India. The numbers they used to call from are:
These guys all seemed to use different names that sound American but the person calling was clearly foreign. Many of them said the company name was United Legal Processing Division, United Legal Division or some other bogus name.
What's scary about this is they had my name, address, phone number, SSN, and even names of friends who I used for references on loan. I figured out it was a scam because debt collectors can't have you arrested for not paying a loan. I also called the lending company they said they represented where I originally took out the loan and they said no legal action of any kind was being taken out on me and not to give any of these people calling any information.
I have called the FBI and plan to also call local law enforcement as well in the city I live in. These scammers have called me several times threatening something. This morning they called me at 5:15am and woke me up. This is pretty unreal and I hope this little operation gets shut down soon by the authorities.