I had a call from 740-200-4781 and caller ID indicated the call was from Delaware, Ohio. The practice is called Caller ID spoofing that indicates to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is somewhere else other than where they really are. I got the same call today and was told to call 405-896-7992. Well, I do not return anonymous phone calls. These types of scammers buy old loans, both delinquent and/or paid off, for pennies on the dollar. They try to collect on these types of loans even though the statute of limitations has expired. These companies count on people not knowing about the statute of limitations. Usually they are not registered to do business in the country and the banks they supposedly send your payments to are usually fake banks. I dealt with some of these situations over the past few months. I reported them to the FTC and my state attorney general's office. In every instance, I was told they were fake collection companies and not to deal with them at all. Don't even return their calls. Also, validation of debt letters MUST be mailed and MUST contain information about how you can dispute the debt. The first time this happened to me I was stupid and made a payment with a charge card. Once I found out that the collection agency and the bank were fake, I notified my credit card company. They closed my account and issued a new credit card. Also, they did their own investigation and credited my account for the amount I paid. Most credit card companies have fraud protection.
I got a phone call from 901-881-8689 and they left a message for me to call the 405-896-7992. Of course, I did not call them back. Is there anyway we can stop these calls? It seems I've been plagued with a lot of these fake scam debt collection calls, and it's really maddening.
I've recieved several of the same recorded messages from some meth head missing half his teeth. When I did press 1' it transferred a few times and some women asked if I was calling about a mailed notice or phone message. I told her you tell me, you're the one who keeps calling and she just hung up.
First off the caller ID shows 617-963-0811 Cambridge MA...but google shows it belongs to "body history.com" a porn site.
If you call the number the A.H. tells you to call (405-896-7992) late at night it rings forever and finally says "the wireless customer is not available"....yeah sounds legit to me.
this number called and when i told them i had filed bankruptcy the lady read my social securtiy number off to me and threatened to "ruin me financially".