It's a scam that goes by such names as MoreStar Consultancy, LLC; Litigation Consulting Service, LLC; Claims & Warrants; and North American Asset Investigation Bureau, LLC (NAAIB). For details, read consumer credit advocate Bud Hibbs' report on these scammers: http://budhibbs.com/debtcollectorpages/NAAIB.htm
One thing it remember is that anytime someone calls you demanding money to prevent your arrest or criminal charges, it is ALWAYS a scam. No debt collector (let alone criminals posing as debt collectors) have the authority to have anyone arrested for anything. (And it's illegal to them to threaten such a thing.) These type of crooks also routinely impersonate FBI agents, police and other law enforcement officials, which, obviously, is illegal as well. (Besides, law enforcement officers aren't in the business of debt collection, and debt is a civil, not a criminal, matter.)
The bottom line is, these are criminals trying to steal your money. Ignore their illegal threats and report their attempts to extort money from you to all these federal and state law enforcement agencies:
1) The U.S. Secret Service is responsible for protecting the country's financial infrastructure and payment systems from international and domestic threats. Call or write your local Secret Service field office to alert them to the details of this attempted extortion. The addresses and phone numbers for the local Secret Service field offices are listed at http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml or in your phone book.
2) Alert the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov Be sure to tell the FBI that you are being targeted by extortionists over the phone and give them all the details.
3) Maryland Attorney General http://www.oag.state.md.us/Consumer/complaint.htm (Litigation Consulting claims to be in Maryland)
4) Your state's attorney general, the contact information for whom is at www.naag.org
5) File a complaint with your local police. Most police departments will take a report over the phone. Be sure to tell them that you're being targeted by an extortionist and give them all the details.
6) File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
If these criminals call back, tell them that they aren't getting any money from you and that you've reported their scam to federal and state law enforcement. They will react with the usual moronic, false threats. If possible, try to save any voice messages they leave and, if legal in your state, record their calls if you speak with them. (Inexpensive phone recorders are available at Radio Shack-type stores.)
Not true. This is a company that is trying to get you to do something not so legal. They demand money and ask you to send it Western Union. You are not aloud to send money though Western Union if you don't know who you are sending the money too. They say they can not send you a copy of the bill though a fax to see what you are paying until after you pay it. That sounds a odd to me. If you ask questions you get told I don't have to hear this and get told someone is going to come over with a sapenia. I asked for 24 hours to look them up and get credentials about the lawer that was sewing my husband I was told I had to Western Union money to them today or I was going to court. Also I was not aloud to speak to the lawer he had no time for me. I was told I had pissed him off by asking all these questions. I was going to jail. I think it is a little stupid to pay someone I don't know a lot of money. I am sure my husband doesn't owe them money. We have very good credit and I am very carefull with the bills. I was curious though so I played along. They wanted me to call their representatives phone number for the bank. When I wanted to call a regular 1 800 number and find my way though I was yelled at and hung up on. I spoke to them on 3 occasions that day They just didn't seem very trust worthy. I hope this helps.
I too received a call about a debt. I questioned them for documentation as well and was told that the debt was from 1999. I claimed I had no knowledge of this debt and again wanted something in writing. They told me the same thing, that they would send it to me after I paid. NO one in their right mind would send money for a debt they have NO knowledge of and from what they claim was that long ago. I was transfered around too and each person was even more nasty then the next. It seems to me that if everything was on the up and up they would have no problem sending me documentation because although they were very very nasty and threatening to me I was just trying to understand what the heck they were talking about.
Good for you for not falling for this scam. They're not real debt collectors. The dead giveaway that it's a fraud is when someone calls and demands money in order to stop an arrest. Paying money doesn't stop an arrest. Another giveaway is whenever someone claiming to be a debt collector demands payment via Western Union. Besides, no debt collector -- let alone a criminal posing as a debt collector -- has the authority to have anyone arrested for anything.
So you did the right thing. Ignore their threats and report each call to the following law enforcement agencies:
1) FBI at http://tips.fbi.gov or call your local FBI field office
2) Your local police or sheriff
3) Your state's attorney general. The contact info for each state's attorney general is at www.naag.org Just scroll down to the national map graphic and click on your state.
4) The Federal Trade Commission at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
For more information on protecting yourself against criminal debt collectors, check out Bud Hibbs' website at www.budhibbs.com