I got several phone calls from two different numbers. 407-369-8754 and 813-398-7541 telling me that I had some loan from their company. They didnt say the amount clearly and said I had interest on the loan and I owed over $1000. He even gave me his name and put on a guy saying its his supervisor. When the guy came on, he had no idea what was going on or he was pretending to be. Then he told me he would send the authorities to my house to take a hold of me and all kind of foolishness. I know I didnt take a loan. This is scam and nonsense. I'm still trying to find out how he got my info, my ss number etc.
From the main page at the *real* Broad and Cassel website (yes, it is a real law firm, and quite a big, well-established firm, at that):
http://www.broadandcassel.com
"Important Message: Recently, we have become aware that individuals claiming to be Broad and Cassel attorneys are making fake collections calls as part of a scam and requesting bank account information over the phone. If you receive a phone call from someone claiming to be a Broad and Cassel attorney and have concerns about the legitimacy of the caller, please hang up and contact 407-839-4231. Thank you."
Broad and Cassel handles big clients with big, complex disputes. That's why the BBB doesn't have much information on them -- the law firm probably has little or no contact with consumers as such.
The upshot is that they are big and famous enough that their name is being stolen for this particular rip-off. Just like you are doing right now, in fact.
Let me get this straight, in a span of 25 minutes five "individuals" make posts in praise of a "law firm" (strange that no previous posts describe being contacted by a "law firm") to a web site dedicated to identifying unknown callers, warning others of fraud and sharing information about how to deal with stopping such callers. It makes little sense for one person who is satisfied by the services provided by any firm or business to seek out a site such as this to post praises, much less five and in such a short time, no less. Even stranger is the fact that "jessica", "Andrew", "Jason", "Kimberly" and "rawn" all seen to have the same inability to write a properly composed, grammatically correct sentence, as well as lack the ability to properly operate all of the keys on a computer keyboard. I think it more likely they are but one really stupid scamming shill who is delusional enough to think that Jake Harper (the kid from Three and a Half Men) and Keith Nelson (character from Some Kind of Wonderful) have gone into law enforcement.
I had the same thing happen to me. They toldme that they were going to send cops to my house. The also had a "police officer" call me. Did anyone else get a call from an emergancy number? Also they said I couldnt pay with my debit card I had to pay with a prepaid. He told me his name was brian johnson.
So is this a legit scam? Can anyone help me?
I have had this number 4073698754 calling me over the past couple of weeks. Inever answered at first until they started leavin messages saying if I didnt return their call I was going to have legal actions taken against me. I callee them back on 1/20/2014 I was first contacted with a michael farrin with a heavy india Pakistan or whatever kind of accent, he told me he was the receptionist and then put me on with a brian johnson who told me I owed 600+ and that I had to pay it that day or the sheriff would show up at my house he told me he couldnt take my debit card that I had to go to Walmart and get a prepaid card and once I got it to call him back with the number. I never went to get the card cause after that I started doing some research on the number I even went as far as finding the actual law firm and I spoke with the actual michael ferrin and the guy who initially called me sounded nothing like the real mr. Ferrin I then told mr. Ferrin that there was someone out there using his name and his business as a scam. I then called the number back 4073698754 and asked to speak to Victoria Anderson the female lawyer at the real law firm. Michael put me on hold where I could hear someone else in the background running the same scam they were trying to get me with. After a minute or two a person came on the phone claiming to be victoria anderson and you could clearly tell it was a man trying to be a woman. When I asked for her email address she refused to give it to me I told her I needed to send her some documents and she still refused told me I was wasting her time and he hung up. Also after the first inital call when I refused to pay them they had an emergancy 911 number call my cell told me his name was jack spring and he said he was from the federal credit bureau and I needed to call that number 4073698754 back I asked for his badge number and he told me it was 2531. The company that these people are claiming to be with is us cash advance I never took a loan out through them. The only payday loan I have taken out is with green trust cash and ive contacted them and I am making my payments and I told them all of this and they said that it was a scam. Its been almost a day since the last time I talked to them or they tried to call. The last call I got from the was 1/21/2014 @ 6:16pm.