I am well aware that they are two different companies. The only reason I knew anything about Nationwide Special Investigations was because Mr. Parker said he worked for Nationwide Investigations but as he went on, he said he worked for Nationwide Special Investigations. I always do my research.
But I do thank you, Monty, for trying to help and point out what you thought Brad and I were mistaken about.
I also had a call from Nationwide Investigations only I was contacted by a woman named Jennifer Peoples that claimed she was with the crime division in washington dc and I was being charged with 3 counts of check fraud, theft by deception and some other bs charge. after going through this whole spill of how I was going to be picked up and would sit in jail for 2 weeks b/c its the holidays before seeing a judge and more than likely spend 29 days in jail after sentencing for a bad check (amount for $21.98) I wrote back in Dec 2005, long story cut short she said she could have it settled out of court for $521.89 if I paid it withing the hour!!! Of course after freaking out after she said my daughter would end up going to social services till I got out of jail and tons of other threats, I paid it (I've never dealt with anything like this and had no idea this could be a scam even though I never wrote a bad check in 2005 or ever!) After speaking with family and friends and doing tons of research I called the woman back the next day to get more information and she was very defensive and would not give me any information. She said they did not have a website, would not tell me who was filing charges against me, send me a copy of the check or give me ANY information at all. After telling her I was just trying to gather information for my lawyer since if there was a bad check there MUST be someone that had stole my identity or my checks b/c I had not committed this offense, she became even more defensive and threatened to go ahead with the arrest warrant if I was going to make a "stink" about it! I contacted my local police dept and the pd from the state I lived in at the time the check was written and they had no clue what I was talking about and no warrants were active for me. I called my bank at the time and certegy which supposedly had this so called check and neither could provide a copy. I contacted the FBI fraud dept and filed a complaint. After reveiwing my complaint they advised that this was a scam and illegal and I need to file a complaint with the FTC. After threatening with lawyers and lawsuits she said she would refund the money but we still have not seen the refund show on our acct. Either way the fraud dept at the bank will make sure it is refunded and our team of lawyers will be locating this "Jennifer Peoples" with "Nationwide Investigations" and their co-conspirators "Penister, Closson and Associates" (the collection agency that took my payment) and filing charges and a lawsuit against them. We WILL NOT allow these crooks get away with this! *****ALSO, NOTE THAT "robert" above claimed he took "carls" advice on Dec. 5th (which was only a week ago) and was allegedly in the same situation, ignored the phone calls, arrested, in jail and back home in less than 48 hours to claim that this "SCAM" is a real situation! There is no way all that stuff happened in that short of time after taking carl's advice to ignore the scammer's phone calls. If you don't think you were scammed why would you even be looking this stuff up? You wouldn't be! Don't believe it ppl, these scammers are professional and very convincing. They make bogus posts on here to help ensure that we "the victims" pay them money that we do not owe!!! You are all going down evil scum!
Amber can u tell me the phone number u called for the fraud department. These people are using the same lines on everyone. By reading this post I feel like i am reliving my phone call. I also want to say that alan parker tried to tell me that he investigated my background and that I don't have a criminal background...unfortunately i do have a criminal background. seems to me this is all lies.
So you paid them and THEN filled a complaint with the FBI...wouldnt they be shut down by now? So you did all of this after you were in the clear...interesting...and then you are telling people not to do what you did...the right thing??
I should also mention she called from 301-358-5599 which she said was a office number in Washington DC but the search online comes up Marlboro MD with no name or business listing. Also the fax number she gave me for Penister Closson and Associates was 404-935-9190 and the number did not even work. I tried it multiple times. She said they were in Atlanta but the company info I have found which is bogus is actually listed as Buford GA and neither of them have legitimate websites, list addresses or any other contact info. BEWARE!!!!!!!! The receipt for payment I received in my email from Penister Closson and Associates was very unprofessional and bogus. They mis-spelled their own company name!! That was a big red flag. It also did not list their contact info no address or phone number and the link went back to a "site could not be found" page!