A heavily accented man called my coworkers place of employment over 18xs yesterday. I didn't want to pry, I thought it was debt collector. This morning, I arrive at work and she's crying, before I can get an answer, the guy calls again. He told me he wanted to speak to her & I said, "what is this in reference to?" He proceeded to tell me his name was Frank Foster and that he's a criminal lawyer and that he was sending the sheriff's department to arrest her, then he asked me did we receive the fax." He sounded like he was straight LYING. He kept asking me what my name was. He thought I was dumb. I said to him, "Where do you work? what is your title? phone #? etc etc" My coworker does not speak very good English, so he was suprised at my tone and demeaner. I told him, "You are harrassing her and there is not a law in the world that would "immediately arrest" someone for not paying a bill! We are going down to the police department NOW to file charges against you. Now call here again and see what will happen!" My poor coworker said this man has her SS#, work and cell # and bank account information! She also told me he started laughing, saying, "I know where you work!!" She's on her way to file a police report, change her #'s and her bank account. She also needs to go to Social Security to find out what she can do about this. It's crazy. He hasn't called back since. But I'm waiting for him! And the fax that he said is laughable, it's full of mispellings and the language is not business like at all.
She should immediately set a fraud alert and look into a freeze
http://www.equifax.com/answers/set-fraud-alerts/en_cp
Also, request her credit report.
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/requestformfinal.pdf
I receive the exact same calls an average of 12 per day including calls to my job. I have never had a cash advance loan to even pay back much less still owe.SCAM