A person calling herself Tiffany Atkins, 216-282-0140, called me and said she wanted to verify the last 4 digits of my my Social Security No. Then she asked me to get a pen and paper and take down the charges filed against me by ACE Express. She said they had me on surveillance doing a transaction. She said I had been charged w/bank fraud, worthless checks, malicious intent to defraud a financial institution. She said I owed $1,008.50. I refuted the claim. I said I was going to call ACE myself and she became angry and told me not to contact them because they have obtained an attorney and will not speak to me. She said as a courtesy, they will have the amount owed dropped down to $400 and then she asked me if I was familiar with moneygram. She told me to go to Wal-Mart, but I told her was not close to one. Then she came up CVS Pharmacy and told me to go there and pick up a red phone and get a live representative and to give him my social security no. as my account no. She said to send the moneygram to WCCI. Gave me a rec. code #7645 and said it was going to Jacksonville, Fl. Said she was going to wait until transaction was complete and she would give me a a ref. no. whereby I could ck. the completion of transaction. She warned me that officials are really coming down hard on those that don't cooperate. I later found out she had also called my mother and it completely upset her.
Tiffany Atkins called saying she with with the Fraud and Worthless Check Unit. Also spoke with Chase and with Jessica. All were very evasive. Clearly a fraud. Threatened prosecution. Very similar to the fraud discussed in other threads using different telephone numbers. They backed off very quickly once I started asking real questions about my "case file."
I just received the same message this morning from the same person. They called my cell first then apparently tried calling my job. It is against the law to call at your place of business, especially using threatening tactics like that.
I ALSO RECEIVED A CALL FROM THIS NUMBER ASKING ME IF I WAS A CERTAIN PERSON AND IF MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ENDED WITH A CERTAIN 4 DIGITS. BEING THE PERSON I AM I TURNED THE TABLES AND STARTED ASKING MY OWN QUESTIONS. THE "WOMAN" ON THE PHONE WAS VERY RUDE AND NASTY, UNTIL I BECAME THE SAME IN RETURN. SHE TRIED TO TELL ME THAT I WAS WANTED FOR FRAUD AND WAS ABOUT TO HAVE 3 COUNTS PRESSED AGAINST ME, BUT YET NEVER ANSWERED MY QUESTION WHEN I ASKED HER IN REGARDS TO WHAT AND WHO. NEEDLESS TO SAY I AM NO FOOL. I KNEW IT WAS A FRAUD. RIGHT FROM THE START. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRY TO FOOL, THEY WILL MAKE A FOOL OF THEMSELVES.....
I ALSO RECEIVED A CALL FROM THIS NUMBER ASKING ME IF I WAS A CERTAIN PERSON AND IF MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ENDED WITH A CERTAIN 4 DIGITS. BEING THE PERSON I AM I TURNED THE TABLES AND STARTED ASKING MY OWN QUESTIONS. THE "WOMAN" ON THE PHONE WAS VERY RUDE AND NASTY, UNTIL I BECAME THE SAME IN RETURN. SHE TRIED TO TELL ME THAT I WAS WANTED FOR FRAUD AND WAS ABOUT TO HAVE 3 COUNTS PRESSED AGAINST ME, BUT YET NEVER ANSWERED MY QUESTION WHEN I ASKED HER IN REGARDS TO WHAT AND WHO. NEEDLESS TO SAY I AM NO FOOL. I KNEW IT WAS A FRAUD. RIGHT FROM THE START. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRY TO FOOL, THEY WILL MAKE A FOOL OF THEMSELVES.....
: I was notified of this check fraud by a Scam Artist calling herself Tiffany Atkins, Phone (216) 282-0140, supposedly working for the “The Federal Worthless Checks State Fraud Division” and representing a Client named “WCCI and Irwin” who had filed a lawsuit to collect the funds from me and she said that if I didn’t send a Moneygram for $575.00 within an hour that I would be served with a subpoena and picked up by the police – I did not send her any money but I did start investigating the check fraud.