I just received a call from 213-816-1950.... a man w/ an accent... something about my friend is involved in criminal activity and not to dirsegard the call. He states if I do not call back this all falls on me. He is attempting to threaten me. We should file a police report.
just received a call from 213-816-1950.... a man w/ an accent... something about my friend is involved in criminal activity and not to dirsegard the call. He states if I do not call back this all falls on me. He is attempting to threaten me. We should file a police report. He says he is Officer Brad Taylor.
I received a phone call from a "0000" number last Friday and was left a message from a man by the name of Mark Murphy. He sounded like he was of Arabic or some Middle Eastern country. He said my full name, first and last and then word for word... "my name is Mark Murphy and my number is 213-816-1950, I repeat 213-816-1950 . Please call me back as soon as possile I want to speak with you about the legal case that is filed against under your name and your social security number, and if you don't return the call and I don't hear from your attorney either then unfortunately you will face legal consequences so it's better for you to call me back right now. Goodbye, take care, and God Bless you." After hearind this I immediately called him back only to have another male (who sounded just like the voice in the message) answer the phone "Hello?" (not very professional for a "legal office" if you ask me) and when I asked to speak with Mark Murphy he said that he was out of the office for the day. I think thats odd considering the VM said to call right back, didnt mention anything about being out of the office for the weekend. So I demanded that they tell me what this was concerning and he said that only Mark can discuss my case file so I hung up. First thing Monday morning I call the number and again get a "hello?" answer, when I asked for Mark the man (who again sounded like the man on the VM) covered the phone with his hand and asked said to someone in the background "They're asking for Mark" when he got back on the phone he said that he was out of the office again. So I argued with the man for the next 5 mins demanding he tell me more information and that I refused to wait for this "Mark" to call me back. He finally told me that I never paid an internet loan that I had taken out and that he had my checking account number and 2 references that I had given. When I asked him to give me these he said he could not release the information... this is when I told him to take his "info" and shove it bc this is a scam and I have nothing to worry about bc I have never taken out any internet loans.
I plan on contacting the BBB as soon as I post this message.
UPDATE: I have called this number everyday since I received the voicemail and this "Mark Murphy" is convieniently never available OR has called me back....well today I got a recording saying that the number had been disconnected. Guess they got so irritated with me calling everyday (and at all hours of the day might I add)!
UPDATE: I tried calling the number again yesterday and the number was active again! So they must be turning it off when someone catches them in the BS... when they answered I asked to speak with Mark Murphy and he immediately got on the phone. He tried giving me the entire story again about how I took out an internet loan yadda yadda yadda so I just cut him off and demanded he tell me my bank information that they supposedly had. He again tried to derail me by threatening me with jail and I told him that what I was asking for was simple information that he should be able to provide if this is not a scam, this is when I also mentioned that I was recording the call so that I could have my attorney hear all the [***] that he was feeding me and so that I could file a countersuit for the harrassing phone calls. After hearing that he said hold please and proceeded to put me on hold for 20 mins. I hung up and tried calling the number back and all I got was a recording saying that it was inactive again.
So today I tried calling again and the number was active AGAIN! This time I again asked for Mark Murphy and they asked who was calling, which I refused to give them assuming they would just put me on hold again. I finally got "mark" on the phone and I said "Hey! Mark! It's me again... remember talking to me yesterday about your fraudulant scam and then putting me on hold when I threatened you with lawyers?" He immediately became nervous and denied talking to me the previous day. I again demanded he tell me the information that he had and he just hung up on me. I proceeded to call back 6 times and everytime they would either hang up on me or just yell over me that they were on their way to arrest me....but the last time I called he (not Mark, Officer McCoy) actually let me talk and I again demanded my information and what he replied to me was "What are you going to do for me?" to which I replied that I would give him [***] bc I didn't owe him anything.
If anyone thinks this isnt a scam after reading my experience, you are an idiot. These guys are completely fraudulant in everyway... do not give them ANY info that they don't already have! They are trying to scare you into giving up your CC info and REAL bank info and if you fight them back they will back off and leave you alone.
I reported this to the FTC but they said that they really couldnt do anything except collect reports but if they got enough they could pursue it... so PLEASE, if you've gotten calls like this from this number report them immediately!! The FTC's number is 1-877-382-4357