Received same call as above...said Lt Lee Taylor with warrant to search my home.
Also called my office number and I work at a law office!
They should be prosecuted.
Received a call from this number stating he was Gregory Martinez with the DEA and I had to call him back immediately. No mention of being an agent so no "impersonation" (must have gotten an understanding of how bad impersonating an officer is). No search threat and no package waiting for me (wow... I guess I did not get any gifts!) just an guy calling from the DEA with an urgent call to return the call immediately.
Ditto on all the messages above. Now there is a Javier Martinez, Jose Perez and Lynn Taylor. Lynn must have passed the clown class 100% and is now the coach. I called back and left the message that they had been reported to the local police departments, newspapers, radio stations and local news media.
Could you include in your "Call Type" list - DUMB [***]?
I knew something was fishy the minute "Officer Lynn Taylor" started telling me I could not talk to anyone else about this, or they would face jail time too. She had me going up until that point though, I was terrified, she had my name and address and said there was an agent in the vicinity waiting for her call to proceed with my arrest.
She told me to be ready with a paper and pen while she got the Dominican Republic DEA on the other line to find out how much my "fine" would be. I took that opportunity to tell her to hang on a minute while I went to find paper. Thank God for Google, is all I can say. Typed in DEA Dominican Republic and hit the scam jackpot.
I came back to the phone and she said it would cost me $7900 to avoid arrest and jail time and clear my record of the felony. I told her I had a friend in the government and I wanted to talk to her about all this before I did anything. She said she would give the word to have me arrested immediately and hung up!!!
I called the number back and only got a totally bogus sounding recording, still claiming to be the DEA. I can't believe people can get away with this.
Had a Greg Martinez call me today stating just about what the rest of the posts have said...As Petula said..Thank God for Google. Typed in "DEA calling me" and the DEA page link was there explaining this scam. Scared the heck out of me at first then told the shmuck "Nice Scam!" and hung up. They/He called back 3 times before giving up since I didn't answer and then tried calling on another number.