He has called me three days in a row...he wants to speak to my son who does live here, but wants his phone number as it is urgent...he says he works with a law firm called "Something I could not make out" and Keith in Louisiana. He would not tell me anything other than it was a criminal matter and he would be arrested Friday by "local authorities". I asked him for his middle name, address, etc...of course he did not have it. I asked him what state the criminal charges were filed in, and I told him of the scam of people calling and pretending to be someone they are not to get credit card numbers... he said this was not the case. I also told him that we do not get calls in the evening for "criminal matters" and that arresting officers do not tell you they are coming to arrest you. It is annoying to listen to these idiots. Next time he calls, I will tell him the FTC has the number, knows the ring is in India and will soon close in on them. Terrible.
This is a criminal extortion scam operating out of India. They are making the calls utilizing VOIP and the names of legitimate firms to make it appear the calls are originating from within the US. There is NO "company" or "debt" and you will NOT be arrested. They are harvesting and/or buying consumers' personal identifying information from unscrupulous websites like the one you may have filled out an application with, and you need to do whatever you can to protect yourself. This includes: Notifying the FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/, placing fraud alerts with all three credit bureaus, notifying your bank and employer and letting these criminals know you are aware they are attempting to extort money for a non-existent debt and have alerted the authorities.
ABC News released an investigative report on this scam in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
Was that lame crack meant to discredit the FTC, attorneys general, and the millions who've suffered these illegal calls? There are no "people on Google", only aggregated data. There *are* people in the Googleplex, but employees don't counf.
i kept calling them back and harrassing them, they hang up too! Just tell them you know their in india in abedahman and they'll hang up on you, the only thing that pissed me off is that they started calling at my work! this is a big scam! thanks for the links!!!!