I have had the same problem. I did apply about 2 years ago online for a payday loan and that is when this nightmare started. They not only call me at work and my cell phone but also call my 80 year old mother saying I took out a loan and have to pay $_____ or I am being arrested or they claim to be a "fraud investigator"!! They scared her to death and she paid them because she has not heard of this scam. I now I am having to pay her back for something I didn't owe! Also, I recently filled in an application for free college courses at Coursera.org and evidently the website was not secure. I now get about 100 emails a day most of them from payday loan companies and guess what.....I am also getting the calls from the scammers again. Please file complaints with the FBI online, attorney general, and put a fraud alert on your credit reports.
I have someone by the name of Mike Anderson calling me an threatening me from 214.635.4611. Stating I took a payday loan out from US Cash and never paid it back. This is no correct. He is threatening my job and stating he will have the cops here. He called me 3 times in a row when I kept hanging up on him. He has a very heavy accent from India it sounds like. He has all of my information and making major threats. I need to know how to make this stop..
THIS IS AN EXTORTION SCAM. Scammers use bought/hacked/phished loan application data to extort payments for fictitious debts from victims and victims' families and friends.
The FBI warns about payday loan extortion scams here http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/paydayloanscam_120710
The FBI warns again http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releas ... nt-payday-loans
The BBB has issued several alerts on this scam, just google "bbb.org alert phony debt collector"
Report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG http://www.naag.org/current-attorneys-general.php as appropriate.
I just received a call from a Stephen Morgan also threatening me from 214.634.4611 stating that I took a payday loan from American Cash Loan and never paid it back. Same thing has below and he has an Indian accent. Please help as well to make this stop!
this guy called me and the orignal number came through as vitelity, and they introduced themselves as a law firm, then the foreign sounding person on the other line gave me to a steve morgan, paralegal and said that their was a lawsuit against my social, and that he was having me arrested. He had my personal information as well. when confronted as a scam, and my husband asking for the legal paperwork and me telling him that he is full of [***] due to there is no arrest for debt in this country and the fact that when i called back he said that he would have to call me back (this was the foreign sounding dude) and the fact that they are hiding their identity, he hung up on me. the address that they gave is 5950 Cherry lane #50 Dallas, Tx and the name being davenport law firm. I suppose that if I google the address it will come back to a non existant area.....will let you know