I just received a call from these idiots as well. The turd with the indian accent said his name was "Attorney" Steve Martin. He told me i had to pay 900.00 immediately or an officer from New York would arrest me, I live in El Paso though. He wouldn't give any other info, but became Extremely mad when I asked. He gave me the number to the police officer so I played along and called. His name was Mike Anderson, but he sounded just like the first guy. He said if you don't pay, I'm going to arrest you and then said Good luck! And then hung up. I tried to call back, but the call didn't go through. He called me back a few minutes later so I put my First Sergeant on the phone and he hung up in her face... Tried to call back and it kept saying all circuits are busy. I called the police department in El paso and the officer told me it was a scam and to make a report.
I received a call from these jokers. They kept calling for some guy that was obviously not me. The man with the indian accent claimed his name was Officer Mc Foster. I told him the first time that he had the wrong number and that he was calling a business line, not a residential number. He apologized and called me back at the same number asking for the same person again within 5 minutes. Before he could even say anything I asked for his Name, Contact Number and Agency that he was working with. He provided all information quickly then I hung up the phone immediately after receiving the information.
I then spent the next hour of my life calling them back every 5 - 10 minutes, fist time I tried to order a cheese burger and fries. Second time I asked them to pick up my dry cleaning. I have one of the conversations recorded, you can download and listen to it here. http://www.hdwebsolutions.com/pCall-1.mp3 its about 1 meg in size. Kind of hard to hear their end of the line but you can get the gist of it.
These are scam artists. They have somehow gottern their hands on people's names that have taken out PayDay loans in the past. They claim the loan was not paid and try to get people to pay with a Credit or Debit card. They will not take checks because they have no legitimate mailing address.
They are calling in from another country. The Illinois States Attorney is aware of this scam but can do nothing because they are out of the country. They attempt to be intimidating and become rude. The local number is rerouted via an ISDN line. They change their number every week. They obviously have some success in bilking people as they are still in business.
Yeah, they have been calling me to. It's some yahooes from Eastern Asia, probably Pakistan. There racket is to try and scare you into giving them money to get out of the "warrant" they have for you. This happened to me last month also and I angered them so much, they threatened to have me arrested in 30 minutes. Also they said that since I offended an officer, I needed to report to the courthouse.... on Sunday. Funny, right?
You can either ignore them, or answer and really try to make them mad. Fun either way. They think they understand the western culture and the law enforcement, but it is just off enough that it is really funny.
This guy today claimed to be office Christopher Washington. Yesterday, he was Mark or Mike.
Oh, one other thing - they can disquise the calls and will once they think you are on to them. I have received calls from all sorts of places, the latest being British Virgin Isles. Yesterday it was California. Also some weird number that doesn't make sense. And again from 911. Funny for sure.